At the end of our earlier article, "The Beatles on iTunes is a lot more than just the money," we set up a survey through Polldaddy.com to ask you if you planned to buy the new digital Beatles.
We're pulling the survey out on its own. If you've answered once, you don't need to answer again. But if not here's your chance.
It's a simple survey: Will you buy them and what age group do you fall in?
We'll report the results.
SURVEY: Will you buy the Beatles on iTunes?
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Ok all you CD hating, lossy format loving, single track buying public, man up and vote. Or will the real Beatle fans who love LPs, CDs send the message that this iTunes release is worthless. We shall see.
I won't buy them because I've already got the entire Beatles catalog in my Itunes. Apple you waited too long to do this....
I look at it two ways...Yes, we all have these pieces and sometimes, much more. And thats ok....I have the albums, and the CD's...heck, I still have a Reel-to-reel....and an 8-track of HELP! I don't have the Remasters, I can't afford them. But it would be nice to hear them, even piece by piece. Late or not, it's now available. So instead of looking at it as a bad thing, why can't we show these "new listeners" what they were really good at...their music and how it was done. My biggest beef with the "DL" generation is that they don't know who these artists are and/or what part in an album was it from? Is there any information like we used to find on albums?
My suggestion - Package it the right way...let them know all about Sgt. Pepper, Revolver, and the rest.
I don't understand those that call them a "Boy-Band." They were NOT a boy-band. These were young men who blazed a trail no one ever broke through. They went through a lot of crap to get where they wanted.
This was "Reality."
So at least think of it as half full....we can be glad it's out and hope that they will include the Capitol sets and maybe do "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" too.
But most important, if you have them already, and have enjoyed them all these years, at least set the record straight.
Love them or hate them,
They are, The Beatles
I don't know if my vote was counted. I clicked on the link, got the survey, answered, clicked submit, but never got a page saying something like "Thank you for voting" etc (comcast server).
No, not buying, have it already, over 50.
Forget iTunes, if you don't have an album, or want to buy a Beatles CD for Christmas, head over to Amazon. They've started a price war and slashed prices on Beatles CDs! 8 dollars for single discs, 11 dollars for double albums and 12 for red/blue. The box sets are only 129. Amazing.
They are taking over the download charts so somebody waited and wants them. I think it is good they are there. Any recording artist who is not allowing their music to be downloaded is silly at this point. Welcome to 2010.
Prince, Garth Brooks, Kid Rock and AC/DC among others are still the hold outs. Brooks in particular is of the opinion that iTunes is killing the music industry.
That's ironic about Brooks, because he's also the guy who tried to kill the used CD industry. Considering that's something his fans would have been partial to, it seems self-defeating.
good for the casual fan, a who cares for the die hards who already have this stuff several times over.
Seems foolish to me now to buy them, i have the usb apple thing, which has them on flac 24/41!! And your not going to get better than that as a remaster. Until of course the new vinyl remasters come out, but until then i'm not buying any itunes music, plus it's 1.29 a song? for 256 m4a quality, no way!
Yeah... Amazon.com has single CD Beatles remasters 7.99 each. White Album 11.99 red/blue 12.99-----BOX SETS MONO $129 STEREO 129
YES AT AMAZON.COM
Never! I have dozens of versions of the same thing, CD's from 1988, LP's from America, UK, México, Singles, EP's, etc. Cassettes, 8 Tracks, I'm not putting a penny on something I have over purchased over the past 30 years, and this goes for the ex-Beatle stuff too.
I'm not buying the Beatles on iTunes because I already own all the CDs. In stereo and mono. Plus Anthology, Live at the BBC, the YS Songtrack and LIBN, which iTunes still doesn't carry.
Now if they start offering previously unreleased material EXCLUSIVE to iTunes, such as Paul's demo of "Goodbye", the Shea Stadium show, Hollywood Bowl and "Carnival of Light", then I'll get interested, you betcha. But not until then.
Still, it's nice for the younger, new fans who are just starting out. They'll find out the truth soon enough--that you need ALL the Beatles' songs.
I have everything out there already too, including Goodbye. I
got it on one of those Japanese double cds that were sold to Russia. I'd buy it again on a legitim..., eh, let's say proper release. But if it were offered on itunes, I'd still hold out for the CD release.
But I think this proves if you have good music, people will still pay for it.
NO. They need to release uncompressed 24/96 DVD-As and the massive unreleased catalog. Plus I would never buy anything from Apple 'puter.
WHat Itunes should do is get all the unrealeased stuff and let us download what Beatles fans really want to download
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