A thing that's finally out there: The Beatles on iTunes!
Not that I've gone without them on my iPod all these years.. I just imported the CDs I had to my iTunes Library... I mean who doesn't have a few (okay more like a dozen) beatles albums lying around their house somewhere. Why weren't beatles songs on iTunes to begin with? Well it started because the corporation that controlled the rights to the beatles songs was called Apple Corps. (ha funny), and was named well before the Apple we know today that runs iTunes and sells iPods etc. When Apple became a bigger company, selling computers, and later moving into the music industry, it clashed with Apple Corps that controls the Beatles songs over their names. This history of confrontation is probably why the beatles songs haven't been on iTunes before. Read this article for more info. Anyway I'm glad they got over their little tiff and now hopefully a whole new generation will be listening to the bliss that is the beatles. The back story between the clash of Apple vs Apple is kind of a funny coincidence, I had always just assumed that the beatles were just so big they (whoever owns the rights to their music at the time) decided they didn't need to be on iTunes. Hm well anyway now The Beatles are on iTunes and all is right with the world...
Along with that this Washington Post article, "The Beatles caved, who remains an iTunes holdout?" also looks interesting.
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