Beatles Day is Coming

I was watching the Yankees game this afternoon and they were winning in the 8th inning.  They then proceeded to lose the game.  Let's talk about something that is better than that disgrace of a Yankees game--the fact that on September 9th of this year Beatles fans (of which I am one) will be sent to their local music/video game stores and will be asked to spend literally hundreds of dollars.  Despite the recession I guarantee you that a large percentage of those fans will be happy to spend their money because they will be receiving the most significant Beatles releases certainly since the days of The Beatles Anthology.  There are three items to come out that day:  1) a Beatles Rock Band video game; 2) remastered stereo versions of all of the group's studio albums (and the Past Masters collections) that will be sold individually and in a box set with bonus material; and 3) a box set with the mono versions of those albums.  For Beatles fans the idea of being able to listen to the group's music in a remastered format is a major thing. The majority of Beatles CD's available for listening have not been remastered since they were released in the late 1980's.  Technology has improved drastically since that time and other major artists have re-released their work in remastered form.  Perhaps no other artist in music history is worth spending so much money on.  I will conclude this entry with a lame use of a Beatles lyric:  Money can't buy me love but it can buy me an improved listening experience.  Yes--that was a stupid thing to say, but then again I don't know if anyone is even reading this blog!