Infinite MonkeysUpdate: Good news and bad: "EMI Group PLC on Monday announced a deal that will allow computer company Apple Inc. to sell the record company's songs online without copy protection software... EMI said almost all of its catalog, excluding music by The Beatles, is included in the deal."
Don't know why I never got around to it, but I still have a few noteworthy holes in the Beatles section of my music collection. It appears that may soon change.
Assuming the price is right. Apple is letting users complete their albums -- i.e., offering the rest of an album from which a customer has bought a song or two. I buy a lot of albums -- probably more than most ITMS users -- but I've bought a fair number of singles, too. I checked out some of the albums I could "complete," and damned if it doesn't look like Apple has hiked its prices. I may be wrong. Maybe somebody else can confirm my hunch. Steve Jobs has done commendable work holding the line on download prices. But maybe, by offering this "deal" to customers, Apple has acquiesced at last.
Posted by H.L. Monkey at April 2, 2007 07:00 AM