Apple to sell Beatles’ music through iTunes

It looks like The Beatles’ music is finally available to be downloaded from iTunes. According to statements released by Apple, it would seem that everything the digital Beatles fan could ever want, from single songs for $1.29 to the entire set of 13 studio albums for $149.

Apple, in order to advertise the event, tries to ride the Beatles’ coattails: “In 1964, the band that changed everything came to America,” advertised their website. “Now they’re on iTunes.” I’m not sure what this is supposed to say about Apple; because a band that had a huge impact on popular music or even popular culture, have had their recorded material appropriated by Apple, who have contributed nothing to anything, Apple is now somehow on a level with this band? Thanks you so much Apple, for being willing to accept money for music that has already been available for decades, and thank you, The Beatles, for making it possible for Apple to sell your music!

Attempts have been made in the past to sell the Beatles through iTunes, but a long-running feud between Steve Jobs’ Apple and the company responsible for the Beatles’ business affairs, which is also called Apple (Apple Corp Ltd, to be exact), over the rights to the Apple name has gotten in the way. “It has been a long and winding road to get here,” said Steve Jobs in a statement. Just so everyone can appreciate how infuriatingly obnoxious that statement is, “The Long and Winding Road” is the name of a Beatles song.

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