Newsflash: Beatles Still Not for Sale Online
by Peter Kafka
Posted on April 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM PT
Hot off the presses from EMI and Apple Corps, the Beatles’ holding company: a press release that goes on for 461 words about plans for yet another repackaging of the Fab Four’s albums–on CDs.
And then these two sentences: “Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time.”
So, to sum up: The Beatles are still not available on Apple’s iTunes (AAPL) or any other legal online venue.
If you want to read about the CDs, which will be released in September and will feature “new packaging,” go right ahead. But if you’re pressed for time, here’s what said packaging will look like. Start saving now:
Comments
This is basically called “permission to pirate”. It’s dumb.
Posted by Frank Zen at April 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am@Frank
Posted by Dave Barnes at April 7th, 2009 at 11:38 amYes, indeed.
beatles who? nobody cares any more what they do online…and no radio stations play them anyway…check your soft rock stations, how many beatles songs does it play, ever?
Posted by Sam Harrison at April 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pmwhich is another way of saying that the beatles need to get with the times or the times will leave them behind…
Posted by Sam Harrison at April 7th, 2009 at 12:26 pm