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Hot on the heels of the Beatles, you can now buy the electric-laced wailings of AC/DC’s back catalogue, including 16 whole albums from iTunes, marking the classic rockers’ first moves to digital. Not only that but the Rolling Stones have gone one further and released an app for the iPhone — who said you can’t teach an old dogs new tricks?
The Rolling Stones app, which is free and gives you the usual news, tour dates and other bits of media, also lets you listen to clips of the Stones’ tunes. That’s all pretty standard fair, but for 69p you can unlock a VIP area within the app, which promises exclusive video interviews, performances, and you can even vote on what your fave tracks to be busted out on the Stones’ next tour dates.
A couple of artists have tried this kind of app-thing before, but it’s surprising, and impressive to see such aging rockers going that route. Go where the new market is I guess. [Music Alley, NME]
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AC/Dc songs have been on Zune for agessssss apart from you shook me all night long… which is pretty annoying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16tWxbwAQ80
Will AC/DC ever be on Spotify though??
Hmm, something tells me, no. But then, never say never.
Then this makes me a very sad otter.
What is it with certain band’s music being available in some places but not others? Do bands think if their music isn’t released in MP3 format (or similar) it’s safe from Internet piracy or something?
Whether this is a record company rights dispute or not, I don’t really care. I just don’t remember all this fuss when the CD format arrived and bands were committing their music digitally to CD without exception.
It’s all about how much services are willing to pay for a licence to sell/stream the music. Sad, I know.