New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Pagan sacrifice, etc

laaaaaaame

Woop woop. Because previously it was nigh on impossible to find those Beatles albums.

anyone can go on Ebay and get the entire Beatles catalogue remastered for like $60 used

why they are bothering selling music by this shitty band?

everyone i know buys their music on cd on ebay these days anyway, especially when buying gifts in december. apple FAIL.

I suspect that there are an equal number of people who give a $50 gift card with a note that says YOU HAVE TO BUY FIVE BEATLES ALBUMS and people buying box sets on Ebay. Both of which are smaller in number than the people who'll just go on Demonoid/Piratebay and get that shit for free if they just want it on their iPod.

otm. can't wait for steve jobs to eat humble (apple!) pie over this when no one buys these albums.

Turn off your mind, relax and download a stream.

I can't decide if you guys are str8 trollin' or being willfully difficult if you are saying no one will buy the Beatles from iTunes. I don't know if you realize how many 50+ year olds have fallen into iTunes being the only "right" way to download music from the internets.

omg

worst news

http://i55.tinypic.com/2yx1af8.jpg

no, i am being serious when i say all the 50 year olds i know buy their cds on ebay. if anything apple will LOSE money on this.

None of the 50 year olds I buy that AREN'T serious music collectors download from iTunes.

Er, switch that. Make "None" = "All".

theyre right though, ill never forget the day that apple made it sound like they had a huge announcement and it turned out that theyre just getting rights to some music i dont care about

RIP apple

xxp How many 50 year-olds have you ever bought?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

thinking about steve jobs, watching the reaction on twitter. hope he is ok.

I'm not saying Apple won't make bank - only that it's not Earth-shattering news, particularly since it's been exactly one year since Beatles fans rebought the albums they care about.

otm

FWIW, there's also this:

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/11/15/hints-of-itunes-live-stream-service-found-in-itunes-10-1/

even if the news is just the beatles, you know this is going to be in every news outlet in the world, right?

Going to wait until the copyrights run out and download it all free from archive.org.

who the fuck are the beatle

Spotify doesn't pay the labels enough for them to want to do it

Interestingly, a friend of mine had a meeting with Spotify recently and they told him that they now pay (in total) more in royalties in the UK than iTunes do. How much of this reaches the artists, I don't know.

YELLOW IPHONE

$_$

I would be surprised if the Beatles stuff is just a small piece of whatever announcement is happening tomorrow. Could be wrong, of course...

Interestingly, a friend of mine had a meeting with Spotify recently and they told him that they now pay (in total) more in royalties in the UK than iTunes do. How much of this reaches the artists, I don't know.

― Alba, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:33 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Given that apple will only be paying royalties for streaming previews at the moment, (sales stuff handled through the labels), this wouldn't be hard.

Not sure I follow you. I don't think they were making a cute point that excluded royalties from iTunes sales on a technicality.

(I think the word "royalties" was mine, if that's the confusion. The point was that labels were getting more money from Spotify than from iTunes. It's all rather roundabout, because the labels themselves have a stake in Spotify, but anyway)

I find that hard to believe.

Me too. My friend's not a bullshitter though. Perhaps Spotify are.

I heard they're going to have free streaming Beatles for everyone who has iTunes.

How often do Apple's enigmatic announcements contain actual hints? Apart from pix of guitars, obv.

Usually always.

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/b21.png?w=630&h=290
http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/b.jpg

if it really is the beatles then http://www.legaljuice.com/yawn%20big%20funny.jpg

youre going to eat four of your fingers

truthfully in hindsight we shouldve known it was going to be something dumb seeing as how theres no event right

'never forget' wtf. If that's a Beatles hint it's a rubbish one. What about:

- You'll read the news tomorrow, oh boy
- Tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the press statement
- Yesterday all my remasters seemed so far away

Those are worse but you get my point.

- Tomorrow we will announce the availability of the Beatles catalog from the iTunes store

, life goes on

, a coo coo ca choo

Maybe we'll get to hear Carnival Of Light? Or is this *just* the common or garden Beatles back catalogue? Can't be can it, i mean there must be some extra hook, there usually is with the Fabs.

PAUL IS DEAD (so his family licensed the Beatles tracks to us)

- She's got an iTunes gift card and she don't care