Ted Todorov
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I just watched the entire thing -- it is really quite amazing. Too bad you can't buy it individually, but the stream is really worth seeing.Live at the Washington Coliseum, a 41-minute video, is exclusive to the all-inclusive Beatles Box Set and can be streamed in its entirety at apple.com.
Obviously for most serious Beatles fans this is a non-event. I have a box of the British LPs from the early '80s, plus all the original CDs plus both the Stereo and Mono boxes, plus the the Anthology CDs & DVDs, plus Live at the BBC, plus all the movie DVDs. I guess I'm missing some live stuff (at the Hollywood Bowl?) But they aren't selling it on iTunes, so...
But this is hardly the point -- a new generation is out there that doesn't buy CDs -- they download all their music, and if it isn't available legally they get it "free". This is for their benefit. And over the years, there will be a lot fewer of us and a lot more of them -- thus having The Beatles on iTunes will matter more as the years go by.
It is also, paradoxically a big event for people who don't much like The Beatles but want this or that individual song. It has probably been over 40 years since Beatle singles were available for sale.
And yes, I would love for Apple to start selling all their music in Apple Lossless -- unfortunately that probably requires many more rounds of negotiations with the retrograde recording industry.