This Week In . . . The Beatles

Working It Out, iTunes to Sell Beatles Titles

Apple and the Beatles: A Long and Winding Road

Let it be available: the Beatles hit iTunes

The Beatles' entire catalogue on iTunes - yeah, yeah, yeah

[INSERT OWN TITLE WITH POORLY CONCEIVED BEATLES PUN HERE]

And in other news . . .

ALL MUSIC EVER MADE HAS BEEN AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON THE INTERNET FOR OVER A DECADE.

Come here, young internet child, and take a seat on Uncle Nate's lap [Editor's Note: Mr. Baty doesn't like to be touched so please do not sit on his lap.].  Do you know what happened the day the music died?  No, a plane didn't crash.  The music died a day many years ago when I, sitting on my ass in front of my computer, downloaded an album I actually owned on CD rather than fish through my entire CD collection to find it.  That's the day the music died, kiddies.

Now, go get Uncle Nate a beer and then leave him alone to reflect on a simpler, profoundly boring-er time when music was this thing you could only acquire through the purchase of these strange, metallic discs that would cast rainbows on the walls when you held them just so in the light.  Yes, music was once a thing you had to pay for and it had a physical form.  I know I can't explain to you what that was like.  And there's so much more I wish I could share with you.  I've seen things you internet children wouldn't believe.  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  Albums selling in a year what they once sold in a week.  I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate and a once powerful industry brought to unthinkable irrelevance and unprofitability.  All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.  Time to die. [Editor's Note: Again, that's actually the ending to Blade Runner.]