The Beatles are now available on iTunes.  It’s just the remastered studio albums, Past Masters 1 & 2, and the red and blue albums.  No mono albums.  Individual songs are $1.29, albums are $12.99 ($19.99 for double albums), and the complete catalog is $149.

“I am particularly glad to no longer be asked when the Beatles are coming to iTunes,” said Ringo Starr.

Is this really that important?  A Beatles fan already has everything that can be bought, and I doubt that younger not-yet-fans were really waiting for The Beatles to be available on iTunes before discovering them.

What would Kind of Blue sound like played through a Nintendo? “Kind of Bloop” attempts to answer that question. And the result? Oh wow.

From the project’s description on Kickstarter:

What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.

To satisfy my curiosity — and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” — I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.