The Beatles have announced the December 9th release of “The Beatles Limited Edition USB Stick” which contains The Beatles’ entire digitally remastered catalog.
This unique, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the re-mastered audio for The Bealtes’ 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs’ visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.
Albums include:
-Please Please Me
-With The Beatles
-A Hard Day’s Night
-Beatles For Sale
-Help!
-Rubber Soul
-Revolver
-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
-Magical Mystery Tour
-Yellow Submarine
-The White Album
-Abbey Road
-Let It Be
-Past Masters
The Beatles Limited Edition USB Stick retails for US$279.99. More info here.
MacDailyNews Note: Still no word about The Beatles debut in Apple’s iTunes Store, but at lest it feels like it’s getting closer.
No iTunes, No Sale!
Too late. You guys screwed around too long, got the music by other means.
Good luck with that one. Again they’re trapped into the idea the people want everyting, sorta the album mentality. I like the Beatles but 279 is a bit much for more than I want. Bring it on iTunes song by song, yeah?
$280 is enough to be assassinated for!
I’d love to buy this; I’d love to have all the liners and everything; and all that is probably actually worth $279.00 (to me at least)….but I’ve already got 80% of these albums I bought and then ripped for my iPod. Oh! the pain….why did they wait soooo freakin’ long to do something like this.
Not easy to drum up that kind of dough!
All our songs for $280! My sweet Lord!
Love My Dough
Wow MP3! What’s next 8-Track.
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Buy it… grab the files, then sell it…
Yep the Beatles’ mismanagement team really thought this one through didn’t they?
Prying the physical media from their cold dead hands…
What is MDN’s obsession with the beatles and fat hypocritical republicans?
They’ll sell dozens and dozens of these for $280….
screw those money grubbing whores….any music I wanted of theirs, I found other (free) means of obtaining…and it’s a good thing because they are rarely ever played…
I only want some songs and I only want to pay 99¢ for each that I choose to buy.
$280? Is this an Onion article?
You’d have to be an absolute Beatles fanatic to consider this. But then again – MJ’s new movie displaying nothing but rehearsals is #1 at the box office so I guess the zealots will pay.
And the old saying goes… “how many times do I have to buy The White Album?”
I’ll try and count it here:
1. Original LP
2. 8-track
3. Compact Audio Cassette
4. CD
5. Digital Audio Cassette
6. MiniDisc; and now
7. USB (FLAC and MP3)
Did I miss a format?
Wow $279 dollars. That is a bit steep for music that has been out of fashion and over exposed for more then 35 years.
Predrag
Didn’t you have a cassette recorder so you could dub to cassette from LP? Everyone in the 80’s had one. I had a double dubbing cassette player.
@Raskol
Are you lipophobic?
Does anyone else not think that the apple-shaped thing is a bit of a slight to Apple? I know their label is “Apple Records” but releasing their songs in digital format inside an apple? I don’t know…
Personally, I could care less whether the Beatles come to iTunes. It’s completely their loss.
–mAc
Anybody willing to pay this amount is a big fan, so they probably already have there music in a digital form. This is plain dumb.
Betcha the audio files are embedded in the Flash application and can’t be extracted or played anywhere else.
I’ll wait.
Is Brian Epstein still their manager?!
– Sitting in his office by the Underwood typewriter and the telegraph machine, listening to vinyl records, a quarter taped to the needle-end of the tone arm?
That shipped sailed a few years ago.
There are many Beatles songs I’d like to own, but certainly not $280 worth (plus tax!).
I do believe that artists and their families deserve the money.
And when the Beatles’ tracks are on iTunes, I’ll be buying their songs 1 or 2 at a time.
I don’t know how many in total I’ll end up buying.
It won’t be $280, but it also won’t be zero, which is what they’re now getting from me.
ruh roh
how long till this is a mainstream thing?
iPhoner:
I don’t think that many Americans (and others) are zealots. There was always this fascination about MJ, and it really doesn’t matter that it was MJ anyway. When you make a documentary about some celebrity’s final weeks of their life, it will attract heavy numbers of people. Much like reality TV brings people in. Ordinary people love to watch others’ private lives. And when they know these lives are just about to end, they like to watch even more. Add to that list the true fans of MJ (of which there are many) and the No. 1 at the box office isn’t much of a surprise.