This just makes me shake my head. Along with the Love DVD. I suppose when the remasters and the iPod for everyone else comes along, I'll forget this happened -- but what's the point of this sort of exclusive?
I actually do not want this -- though I will be interested in an iPod that looks like my Yellow Submarine wallet (based on the Songtrack blue colors with the beautiful yellow sub splashed on).
I'm just confused about where the efforts go as to the Beatle legacy. We repeatedly harp about this, but they're eventually going to miss the moment. My son is 18 and has grown up immersed in all things Beatle -- and he really doesn't care about it one way or another. To him and his friends, their music exists in a gigantic pile of bytes alongside the Who and Jimi Hendrix and Styx and Kansas. The clock is ticking.
I assume we will get all the goodies (remasters, iPod) in 2009, but will they be deluxe? Mono and stereo? Bonus tracks? Hollywood Bowl? Let it Be DVD?
Consider Dylan's bootleg series -- 8 volumes now! And he's still recording new material.
The Stones, the Who, the Kinks, Elton John -- the Monkees! -- have fantastic remasters and/or deluxe editions of their LPs out...for years.
Sorry, you've heard all this before; you've thought all this before. Probably shouted it too.
Just felt like complaining again.