Sidewalk Hustle

via Uncrate

One of the strangest things to tran­spire since the advent of the dig­i­tal medium as the stan­dard for­mat of acquir­ing new music, is The Bea­t­les (or who owns the estate of) refusal to allow their music to be sold and dis­trib­uted dig­i­tally. Per­haps it was so that they could remas­ter their old music and re-release the CD’s, as the did a cou­ple of months ago, how­ever it is still a slightly mind-boggling stance to take. Well it seems that some­one finally woke up to the fact that the 21st cen­tury is already ten years deep, and as decided NOW would be a good time to enter the new mil­len­nium, with the release of  The Bea­t­les USB Apple Col­lec­tion.  Com­ing Decem­ber 8th for roughly $300, you will receive all of the remas­tered good­ness of the fab four’s Stereo Box Set, includ­ing 14 albums in loss­less FLAC and 320 Kbps MP3 for­mats, 13 mini-documentary films, repli­cated UK album art, rare pho­tos, and expanded liner notes, all deliv­ered on a specially-designed 16GB USB stick that fits into a Apple Corps-shaped green apple adorned with the band’s logo. This dig­i­tal col­lec­tion is being released in a lim­ited capac­ity of  30,000 copies, and for some bizarre rea­son is more expen­sive than actu­ally pur­chas­ing the box set.  I sup­pose now is bet­ter then never, but I would still love for some­one to give me a defin­i­tive answer on why it took them so long to do this.