Goodman reports, “Ono said her comments did not necessarily reflect the opinions of the three other equal shareholders in Apple Corps — McCartney, bandmate Ringo Starr and Olivia Harrison, the widow of George Harrison. But she added that the infamous rancor of the past has been replaced by smooth consensus because ‘we’re older and more experienced.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If the business motive of Ono et al. was to get the the point where nobody gives a shit anymore, it’s been a brilliant success. They missed their window of opportunity by several years already. Whenever, if ever, they finally debut on iTunes Store, it’ll be to yawns and more than a few chuckles at their incredible tardiness.
MDN, your comment is spot on.
Solution:
1.) Buy the remastered CD set.
2.) Rip it in lossless.
3.) Forget iTunes.
4? There is no 4.
Forget Apple Corps, but who thinks, cares or considers them.
Yoko, call 1-800-GIV-ASHT.
MDN:
Dead ON.
I usually would agree with the MDN take on things, and acknowledge I may be correct, but have The Beatles not successfully released and re-released newer editions of older albums – whether it be through digital remasters or several collector editions/box sets? Were the Mono/Stereo re-releases from a year or two ago not a success? I’m pretty sure that if/when The Beatles get onto iTunes it will be made into a big enough deal to attract a LOT of people to want to buy the music (perhaps Apple will have a “re-release”, of sorts, of its own for the iTunes LP format and push a very well-done version of the Stereo/Mono box sets).
I may NOT be correct.. oops.
Oh sure it will be a news item when they finally do release them on iTunes… For like a day or two and they’ll certainly sell a few, but like MDN says… Nobody really gives a shit any more. Just buy the stereo remasters and rip them. I’m tired of this stupid non-issue.
Any music fan already has Beatles songs ripped from cd’s into iTunes.
the Beattles should send all profits to the black musicians they stole from!
Who cares Led Zepplin is the greatest band ever, and they are on iTunes.
err Led Zeppelin
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I waited, then got the music for free. Too late, couldn’t give a shit,
Already deleted their flat crappy music anyway.
Every time the Beatles and iTunes are put in a headline, a puppy suffers an unspeakable act.
Yoko?
I’m decades younger than you, and I can happily wait until you shuffle off this mortal coil.
Don’t hold your breath thinking you’ll outlast me- On second thought…
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And I am sure the Beatles care what you all think.
Will U Still Need Me?
I think the answer is no.
I ripped all my Albums (Vinyl for you young bucks) years and years ago. The sound quality is fine and I wouldn’t pay one cent more NOW to add from iTunes. The ship has sailed, the train left the station and Elvis has left the building. Yoko Ono screwed, both literally and figuratively, John Lennon but she won’t get into my pants! All my Albums were purchased “at the time”. Chow, baby!
I see the crazy woman hasn’t changed. She never was too bright, had no sense of taste and thought John Lennon was famous because of her!
Idiot.
Yoko’s looking and acting more like that thing from the Hobbit that keeps muttering “my precious, my precious…”
Isn’t it obvious?
Apple Corp want Beatles content only sold as albums, Apple Inc want Beatles content sold on individual track basis.
I can’t tell her apart from George Takei. Oh my
They’ve been ripped and in my collection for years now…
I’ve got all The Beatles I need via my parents CDs or PirateBay.
Amazing they didn’t cash in on iTunes years ago.
I friend of mine bought the official USB stick last year after waiting for it to appear in iTunes, he let me copy the 320kbp files, I would have bought them if they where available through iTunes but though shit Apple Corps now I got them for free!!