Can't Buy Me Love, but you can buy me the digital Beatles discography

A website in the US has made the recently re-mastered Beatles back catalogue available for download, but it is unclear whether they have actually been given permission.

BlueBeat.com has all of the albums in their entirety up for sale, with tracks as cheap as 25 cents (US) each to download. Users can also stream the tracks online as many times as they like for free before they buy. For any other band this might be overlooked as the norm, but EMI and Apple Corp have made it publicly clear countless times that they do not want Beatles songs to be available for download (so far they have not even been available on iTunes).

A spokeswoman from Apple Corp has told Wired.com that she doesn't believe that BlueBeat has been given permission to sell the tracks, though there has been no reply statement from them at this point. Whatever the case, I think EMI are going to be pretty unhappy about this ...

3 Nov 2009