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more about #beatles B3ND3R: *Deep breath before long-winded explanation* There are actually 2 rights associated with a recorded song: 1. Master Right, or Phonoright (p) - this ... more » Bertone77: Nice try Hank, but you need to do some more research on copyright infringement before you go "creating music" again. What Hank created is clearly a "... more » ethanlechcharles: So in other words, he ripped the cds, threw them out and then duplicated the files? more » njdevil: Aww. I was just going there to download "When I'm 64kbps" #riaa more » pexy: I won't mind getting hold of the FLAC via torrent if they've released limited versions. Paul's got enough cash hasn't he? more » skierpage: The new stereo CDs are just remastered, not remixed. NY Times says they sound better than the 1987 stereo CDs because EMI used better A-D converters ... more » Reil: Lifehacker Ninja Stars: My earphones must have some precognition, or something, because the left one just died. I'm stuck with one channel now. _<; more » frigg: That the Beatles cared more about the mono mixes than the stereo ones isn't surprising. It's similar to the way artists care about stereo mixes these ... more » Lizard_King: I have been waiting for Mono CDs to come to the States for a long time. I waited too long to preorder it seems, B&N was not able to fulfill my order t... more » brendan09: checkout techcrunch's article on Yoko One confirming to a british newspaper that the Beetles are coming to iTunes tomorrow. more » Cam/ron: My stereo receiver from the earliest 80's has a "mono" switch, I wonder how many current models have them. more » Chris Churchill: Why go through all that trouble and then not release it on DVD-A or SACD? Then it might actually be worth the hundreds of $$ they're asking. Otherwise... more » unstable23: Somewhere upstairs, I pulled out of the attic some original copies of the White album, Abbey Road and so on that one of the previous owners of the hou... more » OMG! Ponies!: And the mono version is limited to 10,000 copies which sucks more cock than Max the Blue Meanie. more » OMG! Ponies!: I think now the story is why SKY News removed a published story from its website. Does Apple have enough clout to get SKY News, owned by News Corp., ... more » Communist Pope: Still amazed that so many were expecting Beatles given the Rolling Stones allusion, regardless of the other 9/9/9 Beatles releases. Why would Apple go... more » Skorpius: And quality is preserved for a little while longer. more » OMG! Ponies!: Damn! If only the albums were available in CD form... more » scoobydoo: By the time the collection is made available legally, most Beatles fans will have downloaded it "elsewhere". This delay in making the Beatles availa... more » MarcusMaximus: Huh... so I guess that explains using a Rolling Stones song rather than a Beatles one, eh? more » -
#music
BlueBeat’s Innovative Defense That Will Never Hold Up in Court
Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were "psycho-acoustic simulations" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hold up in court. More » -
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Beatles Remastered: A Reminder of Why It Will Probably Rock
So tomorrow there won't be Beatles in the iTunes, but you will be able to get them carefully remastered in CD form. If you are a music fan, this is why you should care—especially about the mono version. More » -
#itunes
Extra Confirmed: EMI Says No Beatles On ITunes Tomorrow
EMI global catalog chief Ernesto Schmitt confirms to the Financial Times what we suspected at the Rolling Stones-inflected iPod event: The Beatles won't be making their grand iTunes Music Store debut tomorrow. More » -
#crime
Phil Spector Requests iPod to Pass the Time While in Jail
Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod. More » -
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The Story of the Beatles in Two Minutes
I don't care about Rock Band. Or Beatles Rock Band. Not even Lego Rock Band. But I do care about The Beatles, and the game's opening cinematic is just a perfect, beautiful summary of their history. [Thanks Omar] -
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Microsoft E3 Keynote Archive
We're inside USC's Galen Center in lovely pre-apocalyptic LA, waiting for the Microsoft E3 keynote to kick off—it goes down in half an hour at 1:25PM Eastern, but our liveblog kicks off right now. What's Microsoft gonna unveil? -
#rumor
These Are the Beatles' Rock Band Guitars
Apparently these are the two guitarsincludedin The Beatles: Rock Band, the Rickenbacker 325 played by Lennon and a Gretsch Duo Jet, played by Harrison—although I always remember him with the Country Gentleman. [Updated] More » -
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#listeningtest
Sorry Stereo, But Beatles in Mono Rocks a Lot More
Beatles' record producer and arranger George Martin—the Fifth Beatle—once said: "You've never really heard Sgt Pepper until you've heard it in mono." As it turned out after hours of listening tests, it's completely true. More » -
#beatles
All 12 Beatles Albums Newly Remastered, MP3 Distribution Coming Soon?
Beatles fans and audiophiles alike should be excited that the Liverpool quartet's entire 12-album catalogue will be live and remastered in stere-eree-o on September 9—yes, 9.9.09—the same day that "The Beatles: Rock Band" comes out. More » -
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Beatles: Rock Band Will Come With Custom Beatles Instruments
The fact that there's a new Rock Band:Beatles iteration is coming this year isn't a surprise, but the fact that they're going to have custom Beatles instruments is. More » -
#iamthewalrus
Yellow Submarine iPod Forthcoming, Loaded with Entire Beatles Catalog?
Hi there, Beatles haters. Please skip on down to the next post, and keep listening to that crappy music that will never measure up to the virtuosity and creativity of the musical entity that defined the 20th Century. Okay, now that they're gone, if you are wishful-thinking rumor hater, please leave too. Because this is what we have here—the next unlikely and reheated rumor in the saga of the Beatles and Apple: a Yellow Submarine-like iPod shipping soon with the entire Beatles catalog loaded on board. More »
