This whole ordeal would be more intriguing if 80% of North America (nay, the world) didn’t own most if not all of The Beatles’ catalogue already. If you’re a young Beatles fan, ask someone if you can borrow some of their albums… like your mom… or your older sibling… or your neighbor… or your school teacher… or your coach… or your babysitter… or… you get the idea.

Maybe the hold-up is because Paul wanted the iTunes artist name to be “The Beatles feat. Paul McCartney”.

Well, yes, a lot of us DO own The Beatles’ catalog, only it sounds like crap! I was listening to Pepper the other day (best sounding CD of the ‘87 — yes 1987 — reissues) through headphones and the mix is beyond horrible. The issue isn’t the delivery method (CD vs. MP3), but the content! Give us updated content, Apple Corps!

to cut out the middle-person(s); people should be encouraged to download their music straight from the artists’ web sites…

i mean really; what’s the difference? you either get your music from this site or that site – why not that site?

Shocking… Honestly, buck up and buy the CDs…they are WELL WORTH IT!

I only listen to John Lennon and George Harrison’s songs and have actually gone to the bother of editing Paul McCartney’s part out of ‘A Day In The Life,’ (at the start, middle and end) and it sounds ten times better (it is also now only just over three minutes long). How’s that for sacrilage?

What we really want are the remastered versions. Online distribution is perfect, but I’d be willing to buy CDs. The LOVE album songs sound great with all the added depth. CD tech has changed a lot since 1987!!!

We need versions that are remastered but NOT remixed. They remixed everything for the “Yellwo Submarine” soundtrack and while it sounds great on its own, you can’t go messing with history when it comes to the real albums.

As for “Patrick”, why hate on McCartney? All four Beatles (even Ringo) made the Beatles what they were. I’m willing to bet you think the Beach Boys only good material is on “Pet Sounds”, you think “Nebraska” is the only good Bruce Springsteen album, and you listen to Bright Eyes.

Patrick you are a moron who probably has a crush on Yoko. I dont understand people like you but then I guess without people like you Thom Yorke would have to write good songs.

Doesn’t matter if the Beatles will ever be on iTunes. Oasis is a much better rock band, and they are on iTunes. That’s all that matters. Ok, Oasis haters, bring it on!

As long as Creed is on iTunes, who cares about Beatles?!

Good call, Apple. Don’t take any shit from… Apple. Maybe iTunes should have to offer only albums if that’s how the artist demands the music be sold.

Also, I don’t care what anyone says, Revolution 9 isn’t that bad. It always feels shorter than it’s 8 1/2 minute run time. There’s a lot of decent soundbytes: Number 9, you become naked, we get a little bit older and a litte bit slower, block that kick…

And Patrick, have you edited out the ‘can you take me back’ outro to Cry, Baby, Cry? Now that’s hardcore Paul hating.

I thought that Wippit were going to be first to sell the Fab Four. I hear that Apple Corps. has taken 26% stake in the company and will meet Apple Computer’s iTunes head on. G’won WIPPIT!

“Maybe the hold-up is because Paul wanted the iTunes artist name to be “The Beatles feat. Paul McCartney”.”

Lol, hilarious. I hate Paul McCartney and the stupid Beatles.

Led Zeppelin owns the Beatles.

I dont see what the big deal is considering most people have the albums anyway. Yes it would be nice to have everything remastered as it sounds on “yellow submarine” or even on “Love” but the fact is it would be worse if we never had the albums to begin with.

Led Zeppellin may “own” The Beatles but why arent they on ITunes either oh ya and F*** Oasis

i just want the beatles to be on 5.1
i could give a crap about that itunes
crap.

“Who are you to decide what to own off The White Album?”

UM, sorry if i don’t want to have Revolution 9 in all its shittyness on my itunes
number 9
number 9
number 9
block that kick!
block that kick!
the watoosi
the twist

quit your bitching. get off your fat ass. buy the albums. theyre flawless.

They need to AT THE VERY LEAST – release these classic albums in a remastered form.

I could live without the Beatles on iTunes if they just cleaned up these records and released them for another generation to cherish.

Oh, golly…i guess i’ll just have to download the albums off a P2P and get them for free! Poor billoinaire Paul ‘the Macca’ McCartney will have to settle for royalty checks that are a few cents short!

Oasis is on iTUNES. I think that’s a great thing. Who needs The Beatles?

oasis sucks. big time. they’re just a bunch of drunken beatles wannabes. and i think everyone should stop complaining about the beatles not being on itunes. just buy the cd even if the quality sucks. thats what original beatles fans had to do. except they bought albums, not cds.

How fucking ridiculous is this?

While Apple and the two remaining beatles hem and haw about the contract, they’re forfeiting any chance of people paying for their music to the Torrents and Emule.

If people don’t even have a chance to get music legally on the internet, why wouldn’t they just steal it?

Its sad that the big wigs can’t grasp this.

If you sat down and looked at the modern music bussiness, you can still find bands selling records.

Whatever you think of fall out boy, they have found a way to get people to pay for their music by embracing the promotional possibilities of the internet in Myspace and the like.

haha pauls concerned about his status as a culturally viable member of the beatles because hes the dude who wrote bang bang maxwell. that song is like the musical equivalent to a chimpanzee painting. and way to ruin the sophistication of the second half of abbey road, dude.

The Beatles own Zep. The song remains the same is Zep’s flaw. They had one sound… it kicked motherfucking ass but the Beatles could do anything and make it sound like genius! Bang! Bang! Maxwell’s Silver Hammer came down upon your head…

a) i read an interview where neil aspinall (sic?) said that the beatles remastered music would be released digitally soon, whats up?

b) i really can’t see how you can be a beatles fan and hate on paul, im sorry but if you don’t like songs like Hey Jude, Fool on the Hill, Yesterday, Helter Skelter, and others I have no intrest in knowing you

c) led zeppelin owns the beatles the same way bo bice owns bob dylan, im sorry but no beatles= no zeppelin, i like zeppelin but john paul and george had more original talent in thier finger nail than zeppelin had in the whole band, i mean they basically just ripped jeff beck, whose cd came out a year earlier than zep’s debut

D) i mean i love “wonderwall” and “champagne supernova” as much as the next guy, but come on…

and maxwell’s silver hammer, which i can take or leave depending on my mood, is on abbey road’s first side

the beatles own zeppelin fuck you tool

you guys blow. stop hating on paul!!

Here’s a question: why does everyone hate “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” so much? Because it’s not “serious”? Because it’s not “cosmic”? Can someone please answer this question once and for all?

How many special people change…

Sorry, just singing “Champagne Supernova” by Oasis. Oh, that’s funny. Oasis is on iTUNES. Just stick with the band that perfected anything The Beatles ever tried.

There is not single band in history at the same level as the Beatles, and I’ve loved quite a few. That said, yes- perhaps they’re waiting for the new digital versions, and two- the Beatles are good enough so that you should buy and own every single album they ever released!

Dude, for real, own the albums. I do. I prefer CDs. You’re going to want a hard copy for your self. The artwork is key as well as the quality of sound (i.e. no compression).

I don’t understand how anyone could put Creed or Oasis above the Beatles, but to each his own. Paul McCartney is still a genius.

there isn’t a word in the english language that will illustrate how amazingly stupid anyone is who would seriously compare the beatles to oasis, without using the words ‘rip off artists’. and this is coming from someone who likes oasis. reality: the beatles invented 90% of what is now known as ‘pop music’ (in a rock and roll sense of the term, not a brittney sense of the term). oasis ripped them off. deal with it.

I don’t really care that they’re not on iTunes, but it’d be nice if they remastered the albums. I mean, LOVE sounds amazing, why can’t they do this to the originals?

DATELINE LONDON:
Wippit.com have found a source of rare video and film footage. Remastered for the modern age.

Think ‘LOVE’ for the eyes.

The Beatles sound 10 times better on vinyl anyway. What is everyone complaining about?

I love Beatles

I refuse to buy any Beatles until they get off their asses and remaster the damn tapes. I mean you can buy a 2006 remastered version of Street Talk by Steve Perry (you know, “O Sherrie”?) but we still have to put up with twenty-year-old digital mixes of Sgt. Pepper? I’d rather invest in a record player and buy the vinyls. Thank god you can get the Black Box (all the studio CDs) on P2P if I want the Beatles for my iPod.

kudos haze

I don’t care if the Beatles are not on iTunes, but the least they could do is remaster their albums! It’s been 20 years!

Oh yeah, and
-Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is awesome.
-Stop hating on Paul.
-Oasis is good, but they’d be nothing without the Beatles.

I refuse to buy any Beatles until they get off their asses and remaster the damn tapes. I mean you can buy a 2006 remastered version of Street Talk by Steve Perry (you know, “O Sherrie”?) but we still have to put up with twenty-year-old digital mixes of Sgt. Pepper? I’d rather invest in a record player and buy the vinyls. Thank god you can get the Black Box (all the studio CDs) on P2P if I want the Beatles for my iPod.

Oh, and I’d orally service Yoko in public if she asked me to.

I personally think Oasis would rock John Lennon to his grave twice because of their awesomeness. The Beatles absolutely suck, and Oasis is the better rock band of the two.

They’re just trying to max out the life of the physical CD. First, they’ll finally release the remasters. Then after everyone buys those, and it’s obvious there’s not a dime left to be made there, they’ll move the catalog to the digital format.

Weren’t these cats bigger than Jesus at one point? Now, they’re bigger than Jobs.

Ok folks:
1. Will these sound better?
-Probably not. The absolute best source for beatles music is still the record format, specifically the records put out in the UK. The old CDs sound awful as compared to vinyl, that is why vinyl rips are extremely popular and are currently the only way (unless you have mint vinyl/hardware) to listen to the beatles at closely what the sound was. Records are still better than record rips, but the rips atleast sound closer than the cds. The remasters will most likely, due to this age of the “loudness-wars” (read up on this), be worse than the 80s CDs.
2. Will these sound like love?
-No, not in any way. All of the tracks on love were remixes (not as in rap remixes), where the original tapes were used. Becuase these new releases will be remasters of the original mixes, they will not sound like the love mixes.
3. So what does this mean?
-It means that absolutely nothing is going on besides EMI milking its last and best source before it collapses- unless they surprise us with hi-res or non-compressed transfers. Nothing new or better is coming of these “remasters” unless the surprise really exists. If all they are doing is giving us compressed (read that as destroyed) music, then we are actually getting worse than what little we got in the 80s on the original cd release.

4. So if nothing is happening, how do we get something to happen?
-Do not buy the remasters, do not download the remasters (legally or otherwise), do not listen to the cd music. Look for friends with vinyl, or get a turn table and a decent record of your favorite album(s) and complain. Talk about it. Make this a HUGE fiasco for EMI and get them to put out something better than they did nearly half a century ago.

They are hurting right now and if we can send them a message that may help save them, they might just listen.

I hope they release the next installment of the Capitol Albums soon in both mono and stereo. The third one will be 1966 and 1967, therefore should include Yesterday and Today, the US Revolver, Sgt Pepper and MMT. And if they do remaster the UK albums, they should include bonus tracks to fill the CDs up. For instance, Rubber Soul could add We Can Work It Out and Day Tripper and maybe a few tracks from Anthology from the same sessions.

What happened to the day when we played the records? If all you cry babys (cry) Can’t get it though your THICK heads that the Beatles music is for setting down in a living room, bedroom, basement, ect. Not walking, cycling, swimming this is why the walkman was invented. and the cassette tapes were useful. Always listen too the LP’s. And quite bitc#### about the remixed CD’s. CD suck. Get over it, If it worked so well why are they always trying to perfect it? how many times do we need to own the White Album?

Oh yea……. Oasis really suck. Though guys are winers.

“I only listen to John Lennon and George Harrison’s songs and have actually gone to the bother of editing Paul McCartney’s part out of ‘A Day In The Life,’ (at the start, middle and end) and it sounds ten times better (it is also now only just over three minutes long). How’s that for sacrilage?”

“As for “Patrick”, why hate on McCartney? All four Beatles (even Ringo) made the Beatles what they were. I’m willing to bet you think the Beach Boys only good material is on “Pet Sounds”, you think “Nebraska” is the only good Bruce Springsteen album, and you listen to Bright Eyes.”

I hate Paul McCartney because his songs are shit, enjoyed only by old people and squares, as for the Beach Boys and Springsteen; I love the Beach Boys and have every track from inception to loss of Brian and Springsteen is shit in exactly the same way as McCartney. Newsflash!!! He’s not an everyday guy like you and me who sings for the people, he’s a super rich old guy who by the act of becoming a famous rock star, set himself aside from normal humans. Question: when was the last time you met Springsteen in your local shoe shop, grocery shop, cinema etc?

Plus Nebraska is so bad I thought it was a joke when I heard it: “Ooooh I’m sooo in touch with the common man and all his trials and tribulations,” idiot, like rich people/women/other races/nationalities don’t have problems, only the good old boys who buy his records.

The tracks on LOVE were/are comprised of mixes using the *original* Beatles recordings, true. But, and I don’t know the exact specifics, LOVE was also released in a 5.1 Surround Sound version, and I have a strong suspision that the original CD was at least somewhat better sounding than anything released in the 80s. Ditto for the Capitol Album reissues; although they claim to be the ‘mono’ and ’stereo’ recordings, the actual disks themselves are probably higher quality than those that came out when CD technology was first starting up in the eighties. Again, I don’t know the specifics so I could be called out on some of this, but I think that if Beatles albums were reissued either digitally or physically, the tracks would be at least a little better sounding than before.

Also, yes, any of the albums do sound better on vinyl, and the records aren’t as hard to find as some might think. Yet who has record players anymore? If the point of going digital is to expand your audience, particularly to younger generations (I’m assuming that’s one of the goals here), then you really think a 12-year old kid from Illinois is an avid vinyl collector? Or even has a record player to begin with? Regardless of sound quality or availability, digital/CD sells. Coming from a fanboy perspective, though, I’d still suggest vinyl if you have the means.

Finally, the iTunes/McCartney crack I made was just that – a crack comment. I don’t hate on Paul that much (although someone tell me how wanting the “McCartney/Lennon” songwriting change betters anything). And I certainly didn’t mean to say that a hack band like Oasis was better or even in the same league as The Beatles. I still play ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ and ‘Live Forever’ sometimes, but give me ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ or ‘Nowhere Man’ anyday.

beatles albums (in their entiretey) are all OVER the internet. give me 5 minutes and i’ll find you a complete discography in mp3 form. for every download like that, the beatles are losing money. and the more they fight legal downloading, they more illegal downloading they end up supporting. so if the beatles want to lose money, well…let ‘em. their loss.

noone would be anything without the beatles

Picking and choosing Beatles songs to put on your ipod is heresy… The Beatles invented the album. Before them it was just a collection of singles! The only way to listen to the white album which is really entitled “The Beatles” is on vinyl from the first song to the last. It is a voyage, a journey or as I prefer a trip! Turntables are still available cheap because the rappers use them to make weird noises. Get you some! Why don’t we d-do it in the road?

No, Don’t buy the Beatles CD’s. They sound awful…20 years ago it was cool to have the albums on CD, but by 2007 standards they’re pathetic. What the hell is Apple’s problem? Every other major artist, and plenty of non-major ones have had their entire catalogs remastered and expanded, why not the greatest band of all time?

Really the way to go is to download the Dr. Ebbets vinyl transfers in FLAC format from a bittorrent sites. They put the “offical” CD’s to shame.

And I know mp3 is the new standard, but it really won’t do those albums justice.

Hell YES – BUT:

Has there been any official word on the re-masters I had heard might be available (first on iTunes and later to those of us who actually care how they’ll sound) spring/summer 2007? Wait for those, assuming they’ll actually be coming. Still, don’t wait too long to hear this catalogue. It is the reason that albums exist at all.

I am 24 and a life long Beatles fan. I am proud of them for not selling their songs online. I am also proud of them for standing up the big, evil empire that Apple Computers is becoming. Firt off they use the name Apple without regard to copyright ownership, then they enter into an agreement with Apple Records. An agreement that they aren’t even willing to uphold. So no, they can’t sell the Beatles’ records, which are the reason that albums exist and you should own these, in a legal manner. Also, now Apple Comp. is using the iPhone name when they don’t own the copyright, again they are unwilling to respect other companies’ property. I would love for Apple Comp to be sued in both cases, maybe that way they will go away, they are worst than Microsoft. I hope that the Beatles win this war!!!!!!!

Why does quality of sound never come up in these discussions? If I’m listening to something to appreciate the art of the recording process, the mix and the mastering process, I don’t listen to AAC. And in my opinion, MP3 is even worse. If I pay a ton of money for a great receiver and monitors, I’ll pay for the CD and listen to AIFF. There’s a lot of “ear candy” out there that I might download from iTunes. . .not The Beatles.

Anyone who edits out (what he thinks are) the McCartney parts in Day in the Life is not a Beatles fan nor respects classics in the least. Plus since Beach Boys and McCartney are similar that is also odd and bizarre

Why would anyone want to buy Beatles songs for downloading.They sound inferior to cd’s.Buy the cd’s.They are a lot better.Plus you get the arwork etc.The entire Beatles catalog needs remastering.I would hope that Capitol records gets to doing it one at a time or several batches of various titles.Forget that overpriced box set.

All I need is Beatles For Sale and i have em all. Just borrow a few from friends. if you have a friend who likes the beatles, buy him a cd you and him dont have for his birthday off ebay and import the songs. Killing two birds with one stone

I have the entire Beatle Collection in my Zune right now (Including Love!) I bought the entire collection in the roll top desk from EMI London and put them in my computer and transported (synced) them to my Zune. I don’t care if The Beatles never are available for download. True music fans who have to have their music will find a way to get it; even if it means buying the CD’s! (Ever heard of Amazon.com Or Ebay??) For the dufus who said the entire Beatles catalogue needed remastering anyway, Capitol records is putting out remasterd volumes of American Beatle CD’s 4 at a time. Currently there are two volumes available. These American versions of Beatles releases have both stereo and mono versions and original artwork too. So everybody stop crying!!!

Regarding all this “Beatles/Led Zeppelin” idiocy: for the record Paul, George and Ringo ALL thought that Zep was musically to the 70s what the Fabs were to the 60s; John did a cover of “Whole Lotta Love”; Ringo was close friends with Bonzo, and George was jamming buddies with Jimmy Page – the latter wrote “The Rain Song” to the former in partial tribute. Both bands changed the face of rock forever. Yeah yeah yeah – so did the Stones. Robert Plant deserves his own place in the Rock’N'Roll Hall of Fame. George Harrison deserved the knighthood death that denied him as much as Paul McCartney and far more so than Mick Prancing Jagger. So shut the fuck up. There.

And yes the entire Beatles catalog IS in need of sonic remastering, as the glorious sound of LOVE attests. So does the packaging – the LPs were works of art, the CDs should be too. And where is the long-promised mono edition of SGT. PEPPER’S? EMI/Capitol is a whore – and not the good kind that gives you pleasure and a freebie second, but the kind that rips you off with an evil pimp daddy we’ll call greed (or Heather Mills, take your pick). John + George aren’t around to provide brutal honesty, so it’s down to Paul + Ringo.

.The whole “illegal” downloading thing is outrageous. Since the beginning it made no sense to ban it or make it illegal, due to the fact it is what makes these artists more popular and helps them actually earn more profit and more attention from old and new fans alike…The Beatles are no exception to the word, they are legends and deserve every inch of that title, and have made millions from record sales, with no need to tour at all….and still to this day many years later after the breakup of the Beatles and john and Georges death….they still are making money, so why not allow their material free to the public to access and listen to. It would help the music industry and young enlightened minds find these artists who were years ahead of their time creating music that shook the music industry over, and over again, making some of the most talented songs ever written, some of the most unique songs ever written, and some of the most popular songs ever written…I personally think John would allow his material to be downloaded for the whole world to hear and experience, with no restrictions to any of it…money isn’t the honest issue to any artist, its getting their material noticed and appreciated, getting their messages out there for all to hear, to let people know and realize that world issues are not affected by just once singular voice.

Barring access to everything just shows the people stubbornness and greed that some recording industries have, plus the artists only make a low percentage off of the sales of records that are put out as it is. Recording industries like Emi or apple, to capital, are making the biggest chunk of these musicians’ revenue, and earnings… But, purchasing these artists records are a plus….especially to experience the full artistry of these artists…like for instance the band “Tool” and their latest album “10,000 Days” and their unique album packaging and artwork to experience….

Hey Oddjob,
To address your statement
“We need versions that are remastered but NOT remixed. They remixed everything for the “Yellwo Submarine” soundtrack and while it sounds great on its own, you can’t go messing with history when it comes to the real albums.”

You obviously forget that Capitol Records did just that when they imported the Beatles U.K. albums and butchered them by removing tracks to add the “single versions” of songs, and renaming albums-so “remixing” has been going on now for 40 plus years.

Oh Yeah, the albums do all need n ew mastering and relase on 200 gram virgin vynil-in addition to CD.

Jesus, I can’t believe all the Oasis dweebs in this discussion. Yes, Oasis was pretty decent for a couple albums–I own those early couple and am not embarrassed by it–but they are a DERIVITIVE band. They did not create their sound, they pilfered it from (mainly) the Beatles and (secondly) from T-Rex.

“Those who do not learn from history are bound… to be stupid”

I would love to see the Beatles remastered on CD. But I guess I put everything into prespective. I have downloaded all Beatles on my ipod as well as have my Bealtles catalog on CD and album. I listen to the Beatles on my ipod on my train ride to work and back but when I am at home its CDs but I wish like crazy I had a turn table to pull out the vinyl.

I’ve been a Beatles Freak for about the past 40 years. It wasn’t until I did some serious surfing on the web that I learned that the majority of Beatle albums were released in the UK in mono, where as we, here in the US received inferior copies of the same albums in watered down stereo. It took the Beatles 3 weeks to mix and master Sgt. Pepper’s in Mono and only took George Martin 3 days to do the same job in stereo. I searched the web for almost 3 months before comimg across an MP3 version of Mono Sgt. Pepper’s. I couldn’t believe the differences in comparison to the stereo CD I spent $16 for.The only other place I heard better sounding Beatles is when I purchased for $250 Mobile Fidelity’s 1/2 speed mastered records on virgin vinyl “Black Box”
collection of the 13 original UK recordings.
The sound was incredible.Then I read about the Mono version of the White Album. To make a long story short, I spent a month
downloading “torrent” files to get FLAC
versions of all 13 albums. (if you’ve never heard flac recordings of the Beatles, you’ve really missed out. I converted the FLAC files to Aiff lossless files, same codex as CD’s bought in the store. I can’t in the least feel bad in downloading this music for free after PAYING for the original crap vinyl, then $250 for the box set (2nd payment) & then putting out the money for the crappy sounding CD’s ( 3rd payment)
released in the US. You don’t see the Germans or the Japanese selling inferior
product to the people living in those countries. All I’m trying to say is DON’T
line the pockets of Steve and the rest from Apple by buying the Beatles through
iTunes, when there are avenues to do the same and end up with something that will probably blow the doors off the iTunes versions. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve been
a faithful supporter of Apple Computers
for the past 6 years and will remain so. Apple builds computers that are reliable
and the easiest in this whole world to use.
I’m still using the 700mhz iMac I bought several years ago and can’t wait to upgrade.
And all the music I downloaded went right onto my 30 GB video iPod.Enough said. Peace & Love to John and George-we miss you & hello to Paul & Ringo.
sgtpepper4

After reading all of these posts, I needed a Beatles’ fix,, and knew it would be forever until I could download, so I bought #1 on CD. It sounds like I coddled a 1970’s 9- volt A.M.radio, in a tin coffee can, and then buried it, under the Olde Pillow Factory, which was then buried by the Airport, which was later turned in to a huge compost heap.
Too many punk rock shows mangled my ears, maybe?

I’m sure you’ve heard it before already by now, but here it is again, kids: Vinyl is Better. Beatles on vinyl destroys any crummy digital version.

Where to buy a turntable? C’mon, kids. Where’s your hunter spirit? You can score a turntable at any music shop, any Guitar World. There’s a hip-hop record store in Uptown Minneapolis that sells portable turntables for $100. I bought a Numark and it’s the coolest toy I’ve ever owned.

Sit down with Sgt. Pepper’s on vinyl, put on some quality headphones (not the cheap crappy ones that used to be packed with portable CD players), light a couple candles, and play. It’s the best musical experience of your lives.

I’ve had this experience reinforced a hundred times over. Whatever the album – Dark Side of the Moon, American Beauty, Blue, Highway 61 Revisited (in glorious MONO – now there’s a trip), Giant Steps, Zen Arcade, Vs. – you’ll swear you’ve heard the music for the very first time. Vinyl is so far beyond digital that it’s staggering.

As for downloading digital music…why the hell not? CD’s are dead anyway. They’re headed for extinction, and they were a lousy corporate scam from the very start. This whole thing was a ripoff and we’ve been suckered into paying more and getting less. Didn’t Neil Young warn us about that long ago?

The real world isn’t digital, and there’s more to life than ones and zeros. You are not a machine. You really do have a soul buried inside you, and the music has its soul, too. It’s inside the grooves of that vinyl.

So whatever. Fuck the music industry, greedy bastards. Steal everything you can fit onto your iPods, and then pile up on the vinyl records for when you get back home and want the real musical experience.

Get a turntable. Get some good headphones. Get Sgt. Pepper’s. You’ll know what to do next.

Pat– I’m not a big fan of Springsteen’s music, but you are ignorant dumbass. Don’t talk about things like you know Springsteen. I live in Jersey and he goes antiquing with his wife in the town i live in. Everyone in the area has seen him at the Freehold Mall at some point in their lives. Go do your homework and enjoy your little boy bands.

THE BEATLES are the litmus test; the Beatles as boys learned how to play music together while growing into adulthood…what’s amazing is that they wrote and performed their own material, did the majority of their work in about a seven-year span, and were broke up by the time they barely hit thirty years of age. What a phenomenon. A nod to the musical competition of their day, a nod to the help from George & Brian, and a nod to all the inspired musical after-thoughts (read: Oasis). Sure, time and place for the Beatles was perfect – their music is timeless and they will forever be listened to and adored. Please, Apple, EMI, Capitol: Pull your collective heads out and remaster the vinyl and release to the public. MONO and STEREO. IF YOU PRODUCE IT, THEY WILL BUY! HURRY! IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS! Love, peace and the Beatles FOREVER.

Much ado about nothing–EMI/UK has released GREAT Digitally remastered versions of all of the Beatles’ catalog on vinyl. The records contain all of the original artwork from the 60s including the poster and pics from the White Album, and include the Parlophone and Apple labels. These are not the same 1987 remasters on CD. They use the most modern analog to digital technology. I have analog versions and digitally remastered versions and they are comparable. I’ve done studio work since I was in my teens in the 1970s–I saw the digital revolution as it happened. I know what I hear. (The LPs put the current 1987 CD versions to SHAME.)

Also, EMI/Toshiba/Japan HAS remastered the Beatles’ catalog for CD and they sound GREAT–not at all like the 1987 versions. They are as close to the original analog master as can be possible with digital technology. They are uncompressed and the sound is “wide open” like the originals.

What you are looking for is out there. Just do a good websearch and you will find it.

Notice I didn’t engage in insults or name calling. When you do that, it weakens your argument.

Peace!