Walt’s Corner

YML quotes the Financial Times story about Apple and the big record labels working together to bring back the days when we actually bought albums. Money quote: “It’s all about re-creating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork, while you listened to the music,” said [...]

Five more years, that is. The Copyright Royalty Board voted to keep the current rates in place for another 5 years. The news agencies are happy that the iTunes Store won’t be closing. I wish they would have raised the rate, just to show the world that iTunes wouldn’t have closed.
Come on folks, iTunes store [...]

Say it aint so. The last living major holdout for the iTunes store has given in according to the latest New Music Tuesday email I received from iTunes: “Radiohead make their iTunes debut with In Rainbows, one of the most talked about and celebrated albums of the past year. A concise blend of technology and [...]