Topic: The Beatles on iTunes: we can’t work it out

[Simon]

Beatles on iTunesSo The Beatles have finally released their back catalogue on iTunes. Whoopi-do. Can we get on with the rest of our lives now?

To a man (and woman) in the PC Pro office, none of us can work out why anyone would want to buy the albums off iTunes, let alone the £125 Beatles Box that wraps up all 16 of the albums plus a selection of questionable extras.

For starters, you’re far better off buying the albums on CD – presuming you haven’t already. Take for example the The Beatles 1967-1970 (The Blue Album) is £17.99 to download in iTunes’ 256Kbits/sec AAC format, while the double-CD version of the very same album is half the price on Play.com. And that’s in a completely lossless format, that arrives with its very own backup media (ie. the CD) and sleeve notes.

The only possible reason for buying the album off iTunes instead of Play is the convenience and unbeatable speed of delivery: but is anyone really in that much of a hurry to download albums that have been out for 40 years or more?

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/11/16/the-beatles-on-itunes-we-cant-work-it-out/

[Clive]

I have all the Beatles albums I require including the boxed set of singles.   

[Simon]

 

[Clive]

    

[Simon]

I have to confess, I have the Red and Blue albums, and The White Album, but I bought them mainly for a handful of tracks each, and I can't remember the last time I listened to them.

[sam]

they have a point in that article. People are blinded but new things and I'm sure this is how itunes makes there money. Amazon/play are cheaper for mp3s anyway... but I don't see the point in buying digital to be honest. I get the rent market, like netflicks... access to a monthly fee but not to own digital media, seems odd. CDs all the way that... and well ships.

[Clive]

and I can't remember the last time I listened to them.

W..w..wait!  What does that "listen" word mean?   

[Rik]