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The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store
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Apparently you place no value in design or software, so there is not much point in trying to have a discussion with you. I recognize that it is impossible for you to be ignorant enough to believe your own post and still functional enough to operate a personal computer.
Apple has established a solid history of taking commodity pieces and using them in a well designed product with their own integrated software (this is essentially true for every product they make). You make it sound like they order a bunch of crap of new egg, install windows, slap an Apple sticker on the side an ship it out to you...
I had all the original Beatles LPs, some from my parents, the remainder I bought myself with my paper route money.
I bought the original release Beatles CDs in college and a decade later ripped them into MP3s before there ever was an iTunes. Later I re-reipped them at higher bitrate AAC and they have been on my iPods/iPhones for years.
Last year on 9/9/09 I bought the entire remastered CD set on the day it was released and ripped it as lossless and 256 AAC for mobility, and deleted the old versions. The sound quality is noticeably better on the remasters than the original CD transfers, including the 256 versions that I actually end up listening to the vast majority of the time. The CDs are still sitting on the corner of my desk squashed under a bunch of other stuff.
Had the remasters been available on iTunes 9/9/09 I probably would have bought them there and saved myself the ripping time and wasted packaging. Apple Corps has been selling a lossless USB stick with the entire collection for over a year now...again, after I had bought the CDs.
I've bought Abbey Road 3 different times in my life (LP, original CD, remaster CD), all the while still having the "perfectly good copy" (still have all 3). I'm contemplating buying it from iTunes just to check out the iTunes LP format of this classic record. You may call that lazy and stupid, but each version has its own intrinsic value, I've got the cash and I'm willing to lay it out. The amount of pleasure that album has brought me for the past 30+ years in a sense deserves to be paid for again every 10 years or so.
EDIT: Abbey Road is currently the #7 album in iTunes
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well, it was turned out 'the beattles', huh? too late. other online stores have already sold damn beattles music long time ago. what Apple covered the whole front website for this was totally lame. well, am I care? NO. I am not even a fan of this damn thing.
Your ability to paint the world in broad strokes is exemplary. You like the Beatles, great. They are a popular popular band, great. I would rather sit down to Mozart or my Hank Williams LPs. I also refuse to acknowledge that carrots and broccoli may be delicious. Hopefully you will be able to acknowledge that there is more in life than your personal world view.
So what are the datacenter & streaming features for.
The other contender for today's announcement was streaming content based on Apple building out a large datacenter in NC and some code in the latest release of iTunes. With the Beatles announcement we're left wondering what the datacenter is for. With Howard Stern's Sirius contract ending this year, any chance the datacenter and streaming features are there to support a Stern move to iTunes?
The other contender for today's announcement was streaming content based on Apple building out a large datacenter in NC and some code in the latest release of iTunes. With the Beatles announcement we're left wondering what the datacenter is for. With Howard Stern's Sirius contract ending this year, any chance the datacenter and streaming features are there to support a Stern move to iTunes?
Have you listened to their entire catalog? Not sure how anyone can say a song like "In My Life" has shallow lyrics.
I've heard enough to know it's not even close to my style of music, so I won't waste my time. Even if they do happen to have one or two lyrical gems, the underlying music still doesn't appeal to me. I need more than love, sorry.
You Beatles fan should just learn to let it be.
i pray for mankind that im not the first in this mountain of disgusted fans to say:
apple never asked anyone to get excited. Now its in reference of all those "days you'll never forget" that you've had with apple that made you expect something of the same sorts. Apple would have been wiser not to allude to their past achievements. But honestly it was just subtling hinting at a Beatles song title. All of you who **** themselves and did not sleep seriously need to look at themselves first, before claiming apple tricked them.
People amaze me.
apple never asked anyone to get excited. Now its in reference of all those "days you'll never forget" that you've had with apple that made you expect something of the same sorts. Apple would have been wiser not to allude to their past achievements. But honestly it was just subtling hinting at a Beatles song title. All of you who **** themselves and did not sleep seriously need to look at themselves first, before claiming apple tricked them.
People amaze me.
No, anyone who thinks there is depth in the Beatles output is musically ignorant. I truly am sorry for you.
Now, as a business, the Beatles are very interesting to study and that is really how they impacted society.
But candidly, I don't think there is a single innovation they produced. Not one. And they really were very poor musicians their entire careers, technically and creatively.
Agree completely...posted more or less the same at the very end of yesterday's thread before the "announcement" was revealed.
Probably the best thing about the Beatles on iTunes is that this will be the last thread ever that rehashes all these same tired "Beatles are irrelevant" or "no-talent hacks" arguments that come up whenever the rumor resurfaced.
I doubt any of the Beatles haters can name a single current favorite band of theirs that stands a chance of being as world renowned, listened to, purchased, or even discussed in 10 years let alone almost 50. Like 'em or not they are cultural icons and having their music (finally) exclusively available in the world's largest online music store is worth posting a day-long home page banner announcement.
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I'm not even what I'd consider a real Beatles fan but as a guitar player for more than 10 years I can appreciate the depth of the Beatles' musical genius and creativity. You may want to reconsider who is musically ignorant.
Not that I think this is big news [the Beatles], but I'll bite. What is your style of music?
You guys know relatively speaking, essentially nobody rips their own cds and puts them on iTunes. You need to get out and meet more people.
For most people, this is not even a thought or consideration.
Your ability to paint the world in broad strokes is exemplary. You like the Beatles, great. They are a popular popular band, great. I would rather sit down to Mozart or my Hank Williams LPs. I also refuse to acknowledge that carrots and broccoli may be delicious. Hopefully you will be able to acknowledge that there is more in life than your personal world view.
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Lame way to handle the announcement. Who in the world likes the Beatles and doesn't already have their albums in iTunes? Steve, your next announcement better be really, really good.
To your quote: I understand your point, but I think you are being harsh, and somewhat ignorant toward the point of the other poster. I am not a huge Beatles fan. But please listen to some of their earlier songs, then look at the date they were recorded, then listen to what was being recorded at that time before they came along. Absolutely groundbreaking, earth shattering and revolutionary, when most music was evolutionary, at best. If you can appreciate them for what they were at the time you'll come closer to "getting them." Sort of what the Apple II did for computing.
Funny thing is a few years ago, this announcement would have gone over very well. But it seems like more and more people are having unrealistic expectations regarding Apple releases. I for one figured it was the Beatles after I saw the names of the cities under the clocks.
I personally think this is great news. I am one of those people that occasionally enjoys a Beatles song or two. I don't own any of their albums, just a few singles. So this will be a quick and easy way for me to pick up more of their music.
I'm glad the fight with Apple records is over too. Congrats Steven and everyone involved, big victory.
The real Steve Jobs would tell all the people whining to get a damn life. Apple never said this announcement was for streaming, some people just weren't smart enough to put the clues together. HAHA!
I personally think this is great news. I am one of those people that occasionally enjoys a Beatles song or two. I don't own any of their albums, just a few singles. So this will be a quick and easy way for me to pick up more of their music.
I'm glad the fight with Apple records is over too. Congrats Steven and everyone involved, big victory.
The real Steve Jobs would tell all the people whining to get a damn life. Apple never said this announcement was for streaming, some people just weren't smart enough to put the clues together. HAHA!
Wowza...
Good thing we didn't listen to your advice over the last 40+ years.
Oh, no need to feel sorry- I'm good.
Music is a form of communication. That's really the point. Being that The Beatles successfully communicated their message to more people than just about any other musical artist in history (along with Elvis, Mozart, Maria Carey Michael Jackson and a handful of others) that makes them the opposite of "very poor musicians." Actually the absolute best at what they were trying to achieve.
Elvis, Hank Williams Sr., The Beach Boys, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Elton John etc. These are all musical icons love them or not. Why do you have to justify your love for the Beatles by proclaiming the ignorance of others? You like the Beatles, great. Who cares if someone else calls them irrelevant? Does that tarnish their value to you? Does it make them any less relevant?
I didn't realize there were so many people on these boards diametrically opposed to my worldview. To discredit the value and credibility of the Beatles in the history of modern music is, to me, tantamount to being a student of science and calling Newton overrated. The negative tallies and comments are extremely annoying. I'm like fighting mad reading some of this stuff. No, I don't respect others' opinions when they're just ignorant or in bad taste. If I was a dictator I would use this as a litmus test to determine the persons suitable to be sent to my Gulag. You would subsist on heavy machine grease and snow.
I actually think this is pretty cool. It's seriously mind-blowing how many negatives this thread has gotten... I mean like really? This is huge for Apple.
I agree that the amount of hype associated with this was a little much... but this is still a pretty big event IMHO.
I agree that the amount of hype associated with this was a little much... but this is still a pretty big event IMHO.