Didn't know that about AC/DC. What a bunch of queers.
That’s because Columbia (who owns the rights to the first three Aerosmith albums) is also being a dick. They’re owned by Sony, and they made that an exclusive on the old Sony Connect music store (which was a complete failure). They’re still pissed about it, so they try to shaft everyone else.
Via Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE49C4BH20081013:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For those about to rock, AC/DC salutes you. Unless, that is, you want to buy the Australian heavy metal group’s newest album, “Black Ice,” on iTunes, or anywhere but Wal-Mart when it drops in record stores on October 20.
“Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful,” lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, told Reuters.
AC/DC, formed by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young in 1973, is among only a handful of musicians to refuse to put their music on the popular download website in a move that Johnson defended as a bid to protect the album format from the Internet’s emphasis on buying single songs.
Idiots.