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The Beatles & iTunes.
Topic Started: Apr 15 2007, 09:21 AM (437 Views)
Kira
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This topic has been exciting me for months and I just read on Wikipedia that Neil Aspinall quit as the head of Apple Corps and was replaced by a Sony/BMG Executive just a few days ago, so I believe this will even make the process end up happening soon. Cody gave me a link to a Beatle iPod page but it's an obvious April Fool's hoax, but I still wouldn't rule it out.

If anyone's got any news on the remastering of the albums and on the Beatles finally going on iTunes, post it here. Otherwise, discuss what you think of it all.
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The remastering of the albums sort of upsets me, as we have all of the original CDs already. People with all of the CDs are the ones who love The Beatles the most, but don't want to shell out another couple of hundred dollars on albums they have already. Now when they go on iTunes, we're going to see all of these brats that are only going to buy "Yellow Submarine" and "Hello Goodbye", but these people are going to have the better quality songs, that they wouldn't even notice anyway. I REALLY hope that there are no "iTunes Exclusives". There will be though. There will be "Album Only" bonus tracks, then they will have songs that you can only get when you buy the discography. It's going to be terrible.
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It's not like you can't sell your old ones to a CD or record shop.
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Apr 15 2007, 01:19 PM
The remastering of the albums sort of upsets me, as we have all of the original CDs already. People with all of the CDs are the ones who love The Beatles the most, but don't want to shell out another couple of hundred dollars on albums they have already. Now when they go on iTunes, we're going to see all of these brats that are only going to buy "Yellow Submarine" and "Hello Goodbye", but these people are going to have the better quality songs, that they wouldn't even notice anyway. I REALLY hope that there are no "iTunes Exclusives". There will be though. There will be "Album Only" bonus tracks, then they will have songs that you can only get when you buy the discography. It's going to be terrible.

The albums could use remastering, except for Abbey Road... That is perfect.
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Apr 15 2007, 02:21 PM
It's not like you can't sell your old ones to a CD or record shop.

For a couple of crappy M4A files? No thanks. I have the originals and a few of the Dr. Ebbett remasters and they sound perfect to me.

Maybe a few of the younger generations will get turned on to The Beatles this way, so I suppose it's a good thing.
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Apr 15 2007, 03:01 PM
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Apr 15 2007, 02:21 PM
It's not like you can't sell your old ones to a CD or record shop.

For a couple of crappy M4A files? No thanks. I have the originals and a few of the Dr. Ebbett remasters and they sound perfect to me.

Maybe a few of the younger generations will get turned on to The Beatles this way, so I suppose it's a good thing.

A lot of people are just going to buy "Yellow Submarine" and "Hey Jude" because they don't know any other songs. This will get people into the Beatles, but a lot of people will buy two or three songs becaue they think it's the only good stuff they did.
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It's not like you can't sell your old ones to a CD or record shop.

I could, but I'd have to sell three or four to get one new one.
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Apr 15 2007, 12:32 PM
Dude, I might as well stop posting altogether, for whatever I wish to say, Woof has already said.

Yeah, that happens to me too.

Though re-releases are cool sometimes.
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I was excited about the new releases, but I think I would rather have the album cds more than some digital file. I agree with JeorgeMcStarkey; people are going to overlook the greatest songs for all of the overated songs, and get the best quality sound and extra stuff just for owning an ipod and having itunes, while the real fans will have to pay..
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Initially, I had read that Apple would be able to sell some iPods that were pre-loaded with a few songs of The Beatles because offering songs for downloading was not in agreement. And it is curious why now we might see The Beatles on iTunes.
We have some polls on the forum and have seen statistics that last year, sales of song downloading were greater than sales of compact discs. Which tells us that a certain majority of people are only interested in the song for their phones, for their computer, for their mp3 player. And that perhaps the future of an "album" release is in jeopardy.
And just they way some of you were introduced to The Beatles sometime after their music was released to compact disc, a certain amount of others will be introduced to the music of The Beatles with downloading "the song" to their phones and mp3 thingamabobbers.
However, I don't expect a resurgence in interest like we had with the release of the Anthologies more than ten years ago. In any case, best time to buy Beatles would be now before any wave of nostalgia, however small. Conversely, the time to sell Beatles (and to those who might, you should expect a visit from a particularly disturbed individual with a knotted plow line) would be when and if the songs are distributed on iTunes.
Some of you seem just as indignant towards these possibilities as I am towards some of you.
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