EMI Confirms No Beatles In iTunes Store Tomorrow

@glaeven: "By the time the collection is made available legally, most Beatles fans will have long died of old age."

Nanan00

@OMG! Ponies!: Exactly!!! I've got every single one of their albums in digital fomat, as I took the time to rip the CD's that I've owned forever. We're not talking about the old-school days of finding rare, underground import recordings like I was obsessed with in the '90s. It's The friggin' Beatles, not Molly Hatchet - Live at Budokan!

Still amazed that so many were expecting Beatles given the Rolling Stones allusion, regardless of the other 9/9/9 Beatles releases. Why would Apple go out of it's way to offend both the alpha and the omega of '60s music with one event?

Communist Pope

@scoobydoo: "By the time the collection is made available legally, most Beatles fans will have downloaded it "elsewhere"."

done. too bad for them.

glaeven

@Skorpius: My 64kbps Beatles anthology says otherwise. Uh oh, I better convert these files one more time...

This is why you need piracy.

clR3vv

@Skorpius: Yeah, it will be horrible when all that existing material evaporates because of new options being made available.

And quality is preserved for a little while longer.

Skorpius

are they at least going to announce when then. The wait is unbearingly painful

Damn! If only the albums were available in CD form...

By the time the collection is made available legally, most Beatles fans will have downloaded it "elsewhere".

This delay in making the Beatles available in digital format shows everything that is wrong with the music business. It's the record company equivalent of kids on the playground not sharing their toys.

scoobydoo

Huh... so I guess that explains using a Rolling Stones song rather than a Beatles one, eh?

MarcusMaximus

what is the big deal with the beatles seriously..

LinkinPain

I just read on Engadget that Yoko Ono confirmed The Beatles were coming to iTunes. The site that reported it, Sky News, was ordered to take it down.

Edit: TonyRockyHorror beat me to it lol. I didn't refresh the page before commenting.

dark_quota

weird. Engadget has Yoko saying that the catalog IS coming to iTunes.

[www.engadget.com]

TonyRockyHorror

Damn, there goes hopes of using my Zune Pass tomorrow to get some Beatles...

@OMG! Ponies!: I'm levitating pony, and I approve this post.

And that's why EMI is eventually disappearing: no vision.

Tru-Mann

Huh? Didn't Yoko Ono say it was coming tomorrow like an hour ago?

Arghh, im confused, and i don't know if i should trust EMI.

[www.9to5mac.com]

Andune

I think the only winner when the Beatles hit iTunes is iTunes and Apple. Who doesn't have the Beatles on their Computer/iPod yet?

Doesn't it occur to the retards at EMI that if they keep their music private for another few years nobody will remember it and so nobody will buy it?

Raidah

@LinkinPain: Eh? Seriously?

Jimmy1

Until then we can just pirate it.

MaaseyRacer

@TonyRockyHorror: Too bad Yoko doesn't own the tracks.

@OMG! Ponies!: And as odd as Yoko is, I don't see any reason for her to fib or lie. This all smells like that PS3 price drop commercial.

Twanzio

I think now the story is why SKY News removed a published story from its website. Does Apple have enough clout to get SKY News, owned by News Corp., to remove a story?

And I don't think it was some little mistake because there really is no way to accidentally report that John Lennon's widow said that the Beatles catalog will be available for download on iTunes.

I'm bewildered why this is such a big deal; I mean, is it too much effort for people to walk into Best Buy or Wal Mart and pick up the White Album or Revolver on CD? This way you have a physical copy and can re-rip in whatever format, as many times as your heart desires.

Jimmy1

EMI is saying it wont be "available" tomorrow. They are not denying anything else. Apple could make an announcement stating it will be coming to iTunes at a later scheduled date. This is a non-denial denial. I would put my $2 dollars on Apple announcing the complete Beatles catalog coming to iTunes in the very near future

PDAisAok

@anexanhume: That is disturbing... is that what the poor girl got when she asked for a pony for her birthday?? "Here sweety, we'll just hang this dead one on your wall."

@anexanhume: Dammit Cindy, your pony is bouncing on the bed again!

taodude

"Ernesto Schmitt"? Eric Schmidt's latino alter ego? buahuahua

yogibimbi

@LinkinPain: Your name says it all.

(Starman) AnalysisDialysis

checkout techcrunch's article on Yoko One confirming to a british newspaper that the Beetles are coming to iTunes tomorrow.

brendan09

@triggerx: No. She got a live pony. She also got a B minus in math.

Here's some math for the kids at home:

Your pony plus B minus equals dead pony.

Gizmodo comment system retention fail

@Jacksonville12: Apple Music (The Beatles' publishing company, not the iTunes company) has spent a fortune and a couple years remastering all of the Beatles' discography, so anything that might be released will be far higher quality than the crummy rushed job of mastering that was done in the 80s.

Also, there will always be some of us who actually like holding up our end of the social contract and prefer buying to stealing. I've never had a problem downloading work that the owners fail to make available for purchase, but likewise I've never had a problem paying for stuff I already have on my drive when it becomes available.

BTW - My guess is the reason the Beatles' music won't be available via iTunes on 09-09-09 is because they want to milk as much money from the remastered CDs as possible. Having digital versions available at the same time would limit CD sales.

jimmyrizzo

09-09-09

Number 9, number 9, number 9 ...

Coincidence?

jimmyrizzo

@OMG! Ponies!: I dig a pony

crackblind

@Justinpaulson: A lot of the publishing (songwriting) rights have been sold off, but she is a stakeholder in all of the mechanical (reproduction of a particular performance) rights.

@Communist Pope: I've said the same - it's almost mystifying to me. It'd be like advertising a Tupac event by playing Biggie Smalls.

@brendan09: The Beetles may be, but the Beatles aren't.

@jimmyrizzo: I think not!

jmeltzer