Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over 247
Hugh Pickens "The LA Times reports that after years of stubbornly arguing that iTunes was, in the words of singer Brian Johnson, 'going to kill music if they're not careful,' AC/DC has reached a deal with Apple to sell its entire catalog — 16 studio albums, four live albums and three compilations — through the service. AC/DC was one of the last high-profile holdouts from the digital music marketplace, outlasting the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd, all of which jumped into the realm long after much of the population had accepted the downloading future. Angus Young, AC/DC's lead guitarist (known for wearing a schoolboy's uniform when performing), had long argued against hawking the band's music because he didn't like the idea of allowing for individual song downloads — submitting that the group's albums were designed to be listened to from beginning to end. 'It's like an artist who does a painting,' he said in 2008. 'If he thinks it's a great piece of work, he protects it. It's the same thing: This is our work.'"
Re:Begining to end??? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Begining to end??? (Score:5, Informative)
More like, where was all the outrage when AC/DC were selling 45s [wikipedia.org] and other singles?
Re:Begining to end??? (Score:3, Informative)
...submitting that the group's albums were designed to be listened to from beginning to end
So, where was all the outrage when radio stations were playing one song at a time? You know, the one or two good songs that people actually wanted to listen to?
Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?
Re:hold out? (Score:5, Informative)
Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Re:Individual Song Downloads (Score:4, Informative)