I don't care too much for money 'cause money won't buy me love -- but now it'll get me Abbey Road on my computer. Finally, The Beatles are going to be available on iTunes -- and it only cost Apple four hundred million dollars.
Meanwhile, R.E.M. are planning to pre-release their album Accelerate exclusively on iLike one week before its official release on April 1. iLike has been one of the fastest-growing music sites of late and is pretty much the single thing holding Facebook's attempt to encroach on Myspace's hold over music social networking -- seriously, if this were a band posting an album for streaming on Myspace before the release date, it would hardly be news-worthy. A few months ago, though, iLike was another glitchy Last.FM rip off which was awkwardly linked up with garageband.com, but not so anymore -- and this certainly gives the site a lot more cred. Says REM lead singer Michael Stipe: "We wanted to do something super fast and superreal." Read the whole story at the Wired blog.
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