“Paul McCartney describes the effort to finally offer a digital Beatles catalog as ‘stalled.’ This is getting ridiculous. The Beatles will never become irrelevant, but this refusal to join the 21st century isn’t doing the legacy any favors. Already, there are kids today who call the Beatles overrated, saying they ‘don’t get’ the hype, etc. Music, and the way people listen to it, has changed, for better or worse, and the iPod generation is more interested in the hot new single than an LP work of art like The White Album,” Mike Bruno writes for Entertainment Weekly.
“There’s nothing the Beatles or Apple Corp. (the company established to manage their catalog) can do about that, but it would definitely help keep the band’s music alive and well if the young music fans who live on iTunes were at least given access to Beatles tracks, should they decide they want to hear for themselves what all the fuss is about,” Bruno writes.
“But perhaps even more important, this ‘stall’ is just bad business. Shunning a distribution model that is growing for one that is dying (CDs) makes no sense, not to mention the fact that anyone savvy enough to use bittorrent can get the entire catalog for free anyway,” Bruno writes.
Bruno writes, “Enough is enough. I love and respect the Beatles and hope that future generations are exposed to their brilliance so the legacy lives forever. Hopefully, Apple and the Beatles themselves will realize their wrong-headed resistance to change is putting that in jeopardy.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Patty D.” for the heads up.]
A good article with a bit of misinformed junk at the end (unless he meant “Apple Corps.,” The Beatles’ corporation): Apple has been trying to get The Beatles to join iTunes Store for years. This lunacy is entirely the fault of The Beatles side of the equation.
It’s really stupid. We can’t reach an agreement… The whole thing is unfortunate because we love The Beatles. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs, September 2003