Whether or not the Eagles are greedy is beside the point: they are LAME!

this is sickening. As if The Eagles dont have enough money as it is…and umm who the hell would buy an Eagles album anymore?

this is sickening. As if The Eagles dont have enough money as it is…and umm who the hell would buy an Eagles album anymore?

I plunk my money all the time for CDs and music. I guess you just don’t understand.

Limewire is for P.O.S. teenagers who don’t care for music at all. “Get my money”, when did music stop being enough for you! Thief.

You’re right. Limewire’s the ticket, but it’ll take a while to catch up to Morpheus,and it will. Morheus rocked until people like Lars Ulrich got the federal government involved and spoiled the party. If the record industry wants our money back, they’re going to have to offer a product with packaging that’s worth having. Radiohead’s on the right track by including an art book when they finally drop their next CD.

limewire is the way to go

iTunes infuriates me with that DRM crap! As a mash-up producer, I sometimes order a authentic sounding karaoke from iTunes. As a DJ, I sometimes need to edit a more family friendly version.

But anything I get from iTunes cannot be loaded into any of my editing programs. I must burn it to CD first, the rip it as an .mp3 - wasting time, effort, money, and a CDR.

If I spend my money LEGALLY buying a track from iTunes, I should be able to do whatever I want with it on my computer. iTunes is losing the battle on that one.

Led Zeppelin Is still A hold Out from making Steve Jobs Richer than he already his. Now that’s Rock-n-Roll! … Are we Rolling Jimmy!

white trash america saves 5 cents on a song. good for them. i just hope that with the extra cash in the pockets of their nascar clothing, they all buy condoms & stop breeding. then one day far into the future all of them will have died off & wal-mart will be no more. ah…….. what a beautiful world that would be.

I have VerizonDSL and they sold me a year of YMusic Unlimited at $4.99 a month. I can either listen to anything in their catalog for free on my ‘puter / home stereo with my Dynex transmitter or purchase tracks for .79 cents.
I have been using the YMusic Unlimited for years and am very happy with it. Are you now saying Rhapsody will be taking my account over?

What’s funny here is that the great bands and artists of the future won’t sign with a major. They will be independent. So this walmart/mtv move will just sell has been artists, pop stars, and rappers who we’re stupid enough to sign with them in the first place.
MTV is done,no real music fan would be caught dead in walmart and the future awesome bands will be independent. Walmart/mtv just don’t get it. They blew it long ago. Music will be great again and MTV/Walmart/Universal will have Eagles records and pop stars. Whoop Dee doo.

I agree with Mr Pants, I’d rather have a CD, less time to put that on a cd player then fucking around with music files.

Come on people, The Eagles who really cares?.

@ Dean.

It doesn’t matter what quality you rip it in.

Its always going to be the same quality.

If you burn it to a cd it doesnt increse the quality you fuckwit.

Fuck paying for online music - unless they offer FLAC there’s no point.

I’ll continue to buy cd’s until perfect quality is available.

If you take an extra 5 minutes out of your day, you can save some money. I buy music on iTunes. Then, I burn it to a CD (mainly so I have a backup copy of my purchase) through iTunes and then I rip it to my computer’s music library through Window’s Media Player, because you can choose to import music as unprotected mp3 files, and you can choose several different levels of quality within that option. Then I import those files into iTunes and remove the “protected” purchased ones (while keeping those files in the iTunes folder on my hard drive, of course).

Sounds like a lot of work, but… it saves me time and money.

1. I don’t pay extra for a DRM free music.

2. I save on the gas I would use to drive to a store to buy the CD.

3. Currently - You don’t pay sales tax when you buy music online.

4. Time is money, so I save time by not going to the store, especially Wal-Mart. Have you ever tried finding a parking space at Wal-Mart?!? It’s such a hastle and the place is always crawling with people!

5. I don’t have to buy any more CD racks, because I’ve been getting them digitally.

So there ya go! Digital music is awesome!

Eagles music exclusive at Wal-Mart? Stupid move. I just hope next year their music isn’t performed by some poor Indonesian workers because they’ll sing for less money.

Are you guys mentally deficient? This and any similar story are just the last attempts of the music industry trying to hold on to it’s financial golden age (as if this will stop anyone from just downloading for free; “Oh! Before if I bought from iTunes, I had to use the track on an iPod and so wasn’t willing to pay. But now since I can use it anywhere, I somehow don’t care about having to pay for it!”)

The music industry is just going to have to accept that like Cinema, Radio, Pulp Magazines, Golden Age comic books etc., when a cheaper alternative comes around, you have to accept a bottom rung position and be happy with it. Case in point; the 1930s was the most successful period ever for cinema, that’s with seven decades after to outdo it!

Check your facts, folks. The Eagles are offering high quality MP3s (256) as well as lossless FLAC versions of their new album for pre-order. At least over at the band’s own site (don’t know about WalMart). The whole album is 20 tracks and sells for $10.88 (MP3 version) respectively 12.88 (FLAC version).

I admit I had thought they were a greedy bunch for several years, but this seems like a move that’s gonna prove me wrong for good.

Come on people it was only a mater of time before walmart attempted to corner the digital market…but what holds them back is the fact they only sell edited music so will they be different in the digital market… This is just further proof that cd’s are on their death bed, 7 years down the road instead of rows and rows of cds or even dvds there will be mp3 players lap tops and tvs in walmart, they already cornered the cheaper flat screen tv market leaving only big dog best buy to hold power over the high quality stuff….I still believe that Itunes will win this war, there is only so low they can go in price before record companies say no and when the two hit that wall people will choose Itunes so we are basically looking at getting music for cheaper by the time this is all said and done and hell who doesnt love that idea

anyone accusing the Eagles of selling out is an idiot. It’s to be assumed that such acts are already sellouts. A little rule of thumb, if the concert ticket cost more than you make in a day the group, or arist, is a sellout. I’m surprised you don’t get bonus tracks with a purchase.

i hate MP3!

C’mon RS - Urge was run by MTV, not by a “vendor”. Everyone wgi keeps score in the digital music world knows Microsoft dissed them pretty much the day they launched by ditching Urge for Zune. MTV is doing a smart thing by gracefully shutting down Urge, but staying in the game by letting the music subscription guys that know what they’re doing (Rhapsody) run the product. Rhapsody wins because MTV can shout loud to gazillions of cable viewers, which from what you say also is good for RS too.

“those music stores sell far less than any Itunes”

So? Are you equating bigger sales with quality? Britney Spears sells more than Radiohead.

I buy NOTHING from Rhapsody yet I have access on my 2 computers and my MP3 player (and my car stereo) to virtually all of ITunes catalog and MORE.

Every Tuesday I can listen to new releases in their entirety or listen to complete catalogs of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, etc, etc, etc.

Death to ITunes and IPods!

wow i really love the way the music business is heading. can it get any more corporate??? seriously now selling records exclusively at a store for A YEAR!!! are you kidding me??? that’s so ridiculous, any band that only sells their stuff at wal mart will never have me buy one of their records again. wal mart is practically the antithesis of rock n roll, selling out like crazy. this is just ridiculous

the eagles selling their album exclusively at walmart? i guess that’s one album that wont be a part of my collection.

ill be able to get your copy

I don’t care if it’s music or anything else. I don’t shop at Wal-Mart.

this is a pretty weak overview of the scenario. universal and apple have been at odds for a while over the right to sell universal’s catalogue over itunes. another problem has been steve jobs and his push for DRM free music, something that universal has been hesitant to get into. their selling of DRM free songs on the previously mentioned stores is actually being called a “test run.” thus, it’s almost a guaranteed failure because all of those music stores sell far less than any Itunes, giving universal “proof” that there’s no market for DRM.