Beatlemania 2010

I really thought there would be much more of a clatter about The Beatles' music becoming available on iTunes. Hardly is there ever a time or place where you would be able to find all of these songs and albums in one place, let alone get to purchase them at the same time. But there's a remarkable silence. Maybe the Beatles just aren't marketable anymore? Maybe they don't need to be.

There is nothing more I have desired as is with the Beatles Box Set. iTunes has set the price at an affordable $149.00 through instant download, and I am absolutely foaming at the mouth to download every lyrical vocal of that righteous band! Instead of these girls swooning over the four handsome artists in 1969,


it's me, swooning over my computer screen and drooling over all the songs I could have right at the tips of my fingers. For only $149.00! Man, I love Steve Jobs.

So is it right or wrong to own the Beatles songs only on a digital company? I am, afterall, a product of the Y generation. I know what CD albums are, but frankly, in my nomadic state of being, I can hardly tote around the crappy CD's I already own, let alone 13 of the finest albums ever recorded in the history of mankind!

Of course the backlog of this breakthrough is a long, and sometimes painful, history between Mr. Jobs, Apple and the band. There's also something about Michael Jackson in there, but apparently that really has nothing to do with this deal. While the late MJ shared the rights to over 260 Beatles songs, the original recording label, EMI and Apple Corps own the actual recordings of the songs performed, originally, by the Beatles.

This certainly puts my fears that I would somehow be ripping off the 1960's boy band to rest. Indeed, while sources say Apple Corps and the iApple we all know and love (or hate) will make less money from these downloads, the money that is profit from the deal will be shared in an undisclosed amount between the adoring Steve Jobs and the remaining Beatles (or their loved ones.)

And just think about all those OTHER artists that will also benefit from selling their music off of the "suggested artists" on iTunes. Those always get to me. Songs I love from The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel, and company.

Ahhhh, all is well in the 21st century. Now, if I could just twitter Santa a heads up on this year's wish...