OK, so the reunion rumor mill didn’t pan out, but this is, well, something. Best way to kill time while you wait for the Beatles’ catalogue to pop up on your favorite DRM-loving music store? Pay Apple for some Led standards! Guardian reports that, after a long hold-out, Zep is ready to rock on iTunes.
Veteran rockers Led Zeppelin, who have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, are to enter the modern age and offer an album of specially selected tracks to download on the internet.Mothership, a collection including ‘Stairway to Heaven’, ‘Whole Lotta Love’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’, will be available on Apple’s iTunes and is the band’s first venture into selling on the internet. Only the Beatles’ back catalogue, along with Radiohead, remain substantial iTunes refusniks.
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones have chosen the tracks themselves. Mothership will be available online on 12 November.
Tell your parents! Now they can enjoy copyprotected Zeppelin tunes evermore. But remember: Don’t bootleg Jimmy Page’s shit, or he will see you in court and straight-up testify.
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A whole album of specially selected tracks?!?! How nice of them! God I miss allofmp3.com.
A.K.A. “an album full of tracks that you already have”, I’d wager. Whee!
“Only the Beatles’ back catalogue, along with Radiohead, remain substantial iTunes refusniks.”
…and Pink Floyd.
nevermind…
I understand that it will be a significant moment in the history of music distribution or the computer age or whatever when The Beatles also give their music to iTunes, but really, will anything happen? We already own all of their albums, probably in two or three different formats, and we definitely have them on our computers or ipods. Same is true with Zeppelin.
Isn’t Kid Rock holding out too? What? No one cares if “Cocky” makes its way to iTunes? Oh…
in its heyday, LZ refused the compilation treatment. they hardly even released singles. the album had no bigger defender in rock.
fast forward some decades. how many box sets and best ofs do they *have* these days? and now they go on iTunes like this?
Hours too late, but anyway…
Greg – The excitement isn’t so much about the Beatles catalog going online (what you said is true). The excitement is because everyone assumes that digital release will include a full remastering of the Beatles catalog. “LOVE” whet the appetite of fans (and does sound terrific), but we want all the albums to get a good scrubbing.
To add to what Steve wrote: Hopefully, the addition of The Beatles’ recordings to online stores will be accompanied or soon followed by remastered CD’s, for those of us who would prefer to have uncompressed versions.
Oh man, I can’t wait to re-pay for albums that I already have, that I am too lazy to reach for the CD and import it. This can’t come soon enough.
I just don’t get the point of iTunes store at all
I mean you can just go to any record store and buy the album for roughly the same price and then import it into iTunes with better sound quality. plus, you actually own the album…
so am i missing something here? maybe for lesser known bands it can be a good showcase but for frickin led zeppelin?
in the uk its illegal to download a cd you have already paid for and own onto your ipod. apparently this is due to 300 year old copyright laws- just goes to show that this government are more full of shit than a christmas turkey!
i could be wrong but i dont think they had ipods in the 1700s? we are called rip off britain- where fatcats rule and take the piss out of us! if i have paid £80 for a led zep box set already i expect to be able to do what the hell i want with it including putting it on my ipod to play in my car.
if i played the original cd in my car can my brother be taken to court for listening to it whilst sitting in the passenger seat as hes not paid for it? im sure the record companies would like to do that