The Beatles finally on iTunes: Discuss

[Kabukiman]

All music sold on iTunes now is DRM free. Amazon is still cheaper though, so I usually go with them.

 

[The Josh]

I have several songs I took from my cds but I am glad they're finally on itunes. Its nice to finally have the option.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Ah, didn't know that. Should be easy to find converters for Mac online.

Just burn a CD, then rip it back to itunes in MP3 format.

 

[automaton]

it is all about options. i am excited at the prospect of a whole new generation... and all future generations having access to some of the most important music ever made.

 

[user 1190]

Where it is nice is if you want one or two songs from one album you can get them.

I am still shocked to see this happen after all the years of legal battles between Apple Records and Apple Computers.

 

[Bamboota]

Whoopty F___ing Doo

 

[Batty]

it is all about options. i am excited at the prospect of a whole new generation... and all future generations having access to some of the most important music ever made.

That's it right there. The Beatles are still one of the best selling groups around...40 years after they broke up. iTunes is an obvious move when overal CD sales continue to drop.

And Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia Harrison will make a few bucks from the deal.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

Thanks for the tips guys. I never bothered about the technical side. I Just got pissed off.
It is soooo easy to brows through the Itunes music shop, and, before you know it, you buy a couple of CDs... . But man, that 'authorising computer' shi t pissed me off. So, off to the brick and mortar I went.

 

[KitFisto]

Already have the songs I want on CD. Don't need them on iTunes. I guess it's good for those that want it though.

 

[Starkiller]

I don't care at all. Anyone who doesn't already have a substantial amount of their catalogue is dead to me anyway.

 

[Sithlord1975]

I know most people don't care or don't need the material. But it's great for the new fans and the new generation of music fans, who only know of the internet and downloading, and ipods to listen to music.
Every generation of young true music lovers at some point goes through that phase where they discover Pink Floyd, Beatles, The Stone, Zeppelin etc. Cause good music is good music!

 

[Kamandi]

A former co-worker and I spoke some time back. I told this person I was going to see Roger Waters perform The Wall. I got a blank stare.

"You know. The Wall. It's a classic. (pause) He wrote it when Pink Floyd was still together" (a simplified version of things, I know)

"Oh, Pink Floyd. They suck. Not my kind of music"

So I asked "What do you listen to?"

"Lady Gaga."

No point in continuing that discussion. Some people just don't know music from corporate product. I guess I learned something about his private life, however.

 

[ProgMatinee]

how was that Waters concert btw? couldn't justify the cost myself. saw Roger back around 99 though.

 

[Kamandi]

Water's The Wall was fantastic. Gilmore is going to pop in on one of his tour dates to play on "Comfortably Numb" but it wasn't the show I went to (Omaha NE).

Old Floyd fans will recognize the large puppets of the Teacher, Mother, The Ex-Wife... there was the crashing plane stunt... the giant floating pig... Of course they build a giant wall between the band and the audience and knock it down at the end of "The Trial". There's a round screen they use early in the show to project on and when the wall is finished that becomes the main screen for media projection.

Big scale show. You don't need to be right against the stage to have a good view. I had cheaper seats ($40 per) and saw everything great.

 

[ProgMatinee]

wow. i had no idea they would go through all the motion of building the wall. i figured on some of the other props, but not the wall itself.

 

[Kamandi]

BIG wall. I'm guessing 50 feet high by 200 feet wide. When it's done there's windows and set pieces that fold out. During "Nobody Home" some of the bricks fold out to reveal a hotel room where Waters is sitting in a lawn chair watching "13 channels of 5h!t"

If only The Beatles could be around today to play a show with this level of stagecraft.

 

[The Ween]

The Beatles were never know for their stagecraft, but I'd be happy if they were all alive and well and still making music.

 

[Kamandi]

True that.

 

[The Ween]

If anyone is looking for the Beatles Mono set, here is a real good price on it:

https://music.barnesandnoble.com/se..._-101206_MI01_12DEALSOFCHRISTMAS-_-promusbeat

 

[daikkenaurora]

Never cared for the Beatles... and I definitely dont now.