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The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store

Kebabselector said:
I wouldn't say that, I can't see the logic in having a physical CD paid for probably around $10-15? and buying the same thing again as a download. It makes no sense to me. Maybe she's happy to waste money like this.
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Her time is valuable. Going out to the garage to pull out a CD that she bought years ago in order to rip a few songs to her library is inconvenient compared to just dropping the cash in iTunes and having it in her library right now in one step.

Again, I'm not sure why this concept is so hard to understand: different people deal with music differently. It's a mistake to think that your POV is objective or universal. It isn't. Some people do it differently and that's not a bad thing or something worthy of the kind of bile that several people are throwing at my lady right now.
 
icloud said:
buying something over again when you already own a perfectly good copy and are just too lazy to do anything about it is stupid. sorry.
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RT2020 said:
She bought 24,000 songs? How many of those are junk?

I would have bought a car... or saved for a downpayment on a house.
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Surf Monkey said:
Oh, so now, because my girlfriend doesn't happen to like ripping CDs she's 1) an idiot 2) lazy and 3) stupid.

It's good to see that the maturity level on this board is so high. Really nice work, everyone.



She buys albums and I'd say that the percentage of "junk" is about as high as the percentage of "junk" on practically any collection of albums. Interesting that you think that the number of songs in her library implies that most of it is junk, as if there's some limited number of good songs out there. I have over 50k songs in my library and I don't think more than 2 or 3% is what I'd consider junk.



Considering you have no idea what her financial situation is, I'd say that that comment is pretty presumptuous and more than a little insulting.
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Bruce Lee said:
Your girlfriend sounds like a moron.

Word of advice; Don't let her look after your finances...in fact i wouldn't let her look after her own.
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mmm... I am liking the hate here!
 
Regardless of the fact that most Beatles fans already own their recordings on CD (and therefore couldn't care less about being able to download their stuff from iTunes), and regardless of the (likely) fact that the recordings were made before most of the people on this forum were even born (and therefore not really 'relevant' to contemporary audiences), this is still a significant coup. The Beatles, arguably the most famous and influential rock band of all time, were the last remaining major pop artists missing from iTunes (or any other music download service, for that matter) and the fact that their stuff is now available on iTunes--and no other download site--is something to take notice of. It's a symbolic victory for Apple, if nothing else.
 
Surf Monkey said:
Her time is valuable. Going out to the garage to pull out a CD that she bought years ago in order to rip a few songs to her library is inconvenient compared to just dropping the cash in iTunes and having it in her library right now in one step.
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Put this way I can see the point

Again, I'm not sure why this concept is so hard to understand: different people deal with music differently.
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It a financial decision that many of us probably wouldn't contemplate. It's her cash, she can do what she wants. I can't comprehend myself ever being in that situation.
 
Bruce Lee said:
There comes a time, when certain people deserve it, and could do with a reality check....and it's fun too.
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What reality? Yours?

It doesn't matter to me who's pro or anti Beatles. I don't care who thinks the Beatles were bigger than Michael Jackson. I don't care if you download legally or illegally. I don't care if you do or don't know how to rip CD's. I don't care which tastes better between McDonald's or BK. I don't even care if you prefer PC's or Mac, Droid or iOS.

Reality is for each and every one of us to make it what we want it to be. There are pros and cons in all our decisions, such is life.

The only reality check that some people in here should do is the fact that it is very easy to insult everybody hiding behind a computer and I dare those grammatical failures (who, as always, can't see the difference between "your" and "you're") to come up with their same "arguments" in real life.

That is the only reality check we should all be doing.

Don't feel offended, I am not attacking you personally. It's just a shame to see that nearly 2,000 posts were sent on the subject, and that 80% of those is plain garbage.
 
rmwebs said:
Bugger me. Just gone onto the iTunes store...if I didnt know better I would have said Apple Corps > Apple Inc!

Apple sold out BIG TIME on this. What a load of crap.

Take a look! (Attached)
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Why is this a load of crap? iTunes is essentially what used be called a record store. They sell product in the form of music. Ever been to a Tower Records or even a Best Buy? They all have had Beatles Month or U2 Week or Elvis Night. Record Stores used to have big promotional sections stocking entire catalogues for a week or a month. That's what is happening here. the iTunes store is a retailer. I don't understand the problem.
 
To be truthful, I do not like the Beatles. I understand their impact on the music industry as a whole, but I still don't like them. Does that make me stupid and uneducated? I would hope that intellect is not judged based upon liking the Beatles. Cause if so the taxpayers and I have wasted alot of money on education. :p
Apple made a good play getting the Beatles for Itunes. I do however like Ringo Starr in the movie Caveman. Cinematic genius I tell you, cinematic genius. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Caveman-Ringo-Starr/dp/B000063JDF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289956163&sr=8-1
 
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tigres said:
I spent the day listening to my Beatles library again.

Nothing really to complain about, it's pure genius. Anyone who cannot appreciate the depth of this band is simply in denial.
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You are in denial. Denial of others personal preferences. :rolleyes:
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
Exactly. Pop music. Not exactly the most respected genre of music around these days. The Beatles were the product of a great marketing machine not great music.

Comparing the Beatles to Mozart. Get out of here.
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You have NO idea what you are talking about. Capitol originally passed on releasing the American versions of their EMI albums for over a year. Yes they finally put alot of money behind I Want to Hold your Hand and Meet the Beatles, But after that, for about six years, they essentially sold themselves. No hype just great albums and singles that were always slightly different stylistically and way beyond what most other bands were doing. They led. The never followed.

In fact Rubber Soul was the first album ever released by an artist that didn't even have their name on the cover. No one else could really have done that at the time.
 
Apple will make money from what transpired today. Lots of it. Your opinions mean nothing considering their job is making money.


And to the poster who said Apple "sold out". Dumbest post of the year. How can a giant corporation sell out? It's a corporation, not an underground rap group.
 
They know how to honour people.

One thing about Apple is they know how to honour people. I started off the day disappointed about the news, but honestly it's kinda cool. I just watched the old videos on iTunes and it re-awoke the Beatles lover in me. My dad used to sing Beatles songs to me when I was a kid on our roof in India (we had a bedroom up there). We moved to England when I was really young and then again to Canada and it's always stuck with me. It's not a big deal for everyone, but neither are Shakespeare's plays, Mozart's compositions, Yves St. Laurent's clothes, or Michelangelo's paintings. Fact is that this is the most important band to music since people started recording it and it's finally in the music store.

So Apple posted a lyric from a Paul McCartney song about this being a day you wouldn't forget. They didn't have an event for it and that teaser page was up since... yesterday. People got themselves up in a huff (as they always do when Apple does absolutely anything) and now everyone's angry... THUMBS DOWN! Grow up, you ****ing children. Apple doesn't owe you anything. They're going to keep releasing products, but after a lot of years of being the biggest music store in the world, they finally got the world's biggest band ever and they advertise it on their website.
 
misfit356tsw said:
You are in denial. Denial of others personal preferences. :rolleyes:
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Beg to differ.

There is nobody on this plant earth (who have the means of living long and prospering), that at some point in their life will not be touched by the music of this band.

I think that is a fair statement. So personal preference or not, I personally do not know anyone at all who does not like the Beatles in some form or another.
 
tigres said:
Beg to differ.

There is nobody on this plant earth (who have the means of living long and prospering), that at some point in their life will not be touched by the music of this band.

I think that is a fair statement. So personal preference or not, I personally do not know anyone at all who does not like the Beatles in some form or another.
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I have not been touched by the music of the Beatles. I do not like them, but I also don't like carrots or broccoli. Many World War 2 generation people were not "touched" by the Beatles. They may prefer Lawrence Welk, classical music, or alot of music prior to the Beatles. You don't need to justify your love for the Beatles by saying "no one in the world has not been touched by the music of this band." You like the band, fantastic. :)
 
icloud said:
buying something over again when you already own a perfectly good copy and are just too lazy to do anything about it is stupid. sorry.
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Some people simply value their time more than you do..Calling people stupid (morons or whatever) is absurd. Without knowing either of you, I can easily guesstimate she is considerably more intelligent and successful than you are at this point in both your lives.


Kebabselector said:
Put this way I can see the point



It a financial decision that many of us probably wouldn't contemplate. It's her cash, she can do what she wants. I can't comprehend myself ever being in that situation.
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You can't contemplate your time being worth more than $1 a minute. That is kind of sad. I buy albums I have on CD all the time too. If I can buy an album on itunes for $9.99 or go dig through crates of CDs for 10 minutes and then spend another few ripping it, I would rather just download it. We did go through and rip about 1000/1500 CDs a few (mor like 10 prob) years ago, but occasionally I decide I want something that didn't get ripped. A lot of it is simply timing. If we were in the same financial/family situation 10 years ago, none of them would have been ripped.

People need to learn to see things from perspectives outside of their own narrow world view. For many people, time is much, much more valuable then money. For most people that could reasonably called "professionals" by the time they are in their mid to late 30s this is certainly true. Apple's demographic happens to include a higher number of those people than society as a whole.
 
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misfit356tsw said:
I have not been touched by the music of the Beatles. I do not like them, but I also don't like carrots or broccoli. Many World War 2 generation people were not "touched" by the Beatles. They may prefer Lawrence Welk, classical music, or alot of music prior to the Beatles. You don't need to justify your love for the Beatles by saying "no one in the world has not been touched by the music of this band." You like the band, fantastic. :)
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I do like them, but only started appreciating them within the last few years.

My grandpa was a WW2 vet, non techie and not a big music listener. In fact, they did not even have a stereo in the house. He did appreciate them- "touched" can be taken in many contexts however- I think you see my point.

Even a small ad on TV, or the radio with any Beatles songs reach out to us. There are a plethora of categories to which this model of thinking can be applied.

At any rate, I am sorry you cannot acknowledge the music they made was and is exemplary.
 
tigres said:
Beg to differ.

There is nobody on this plant earth (who have the means of living long and prospering), that at some point in their life will not be touched by the music of this band.

I think that is a fair statement. So personal preference or not, I personally do not know anyone at all who does not like the Beatles in some form or another.
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People in India listen to Michael Jackson on cassette. Hood kids would use a beatles disc as a frisbee. Yes, they're unparalleled in popularity, but let's not get out of hand. Plenty of folks haven't even heard of them.
 
tigres said:
At any rate, I am sorry you cannot acknowledge the music they made was and is exemplary.
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We don't have to feel touched by it to acknowledge the band's success. None of their music touches me, I feel the lyrics are shallow and the music lacks minor chords and distortion. Oh, and over 200 bpm songs.

Just not my style.
 
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