The November 16 Apple announcement ended one of the most litigious relationships in music history.
The Beatles have sued Apple plenty of times, but it looks like the days of Apple-on-Apple warfare have stopped.
Today’s announcement marks an end to one of the most contentious business relationships in music history, as The Beatles’ Apple Corps had tried to ban Apple from ever entering the music business. Apple is the biggest seller of music in the world (a “break-even” business for the company), and the Beatles are the biggest-selling musical act of all time.
Unlike The Beatles Rock Band, the iTunes packages are sound digital offerings. 150 bucks will get you the entire remastered catalog, or you can pick up the individual albums for $12.99 and the songs for $1.29. Album purchases are accompanied by neat documentaries.
If you’re new to The Beatles, buy these 5 songs. It is the best way to spend $6.45 today.
1. Julia
2. Nowhere Man
3. Something
4. Eight Days a Week
5. She Said, She Said
November 19, 2010 at 12:04 pm, This Week In Advancement: Paul McCartney More Advanced Than John Lennon | Death and Taxes said:
[...] The Beatles came out on iTunes this week, and I figured the best way to honor their figuring out yet another way to get me to spend money on songs I’ve bought nine or ten times already (and heard thousands of times) was to repurpose something I’d written for another medium. So, I give you the “remastered” version of the argument I made in my book, The Advanced Genius Theory, that Paul McCartney is more Advanced than John Lennon was. [...]