At Apple’s annual special music event, this year dubbed “ It’s only rock and roll, but we like it ” they announced a new, old-style album-centric offering called iTunes LP . The image painted was of a young Steve Jobs, grabbing his bike, riding to the music store, buying the latest Dylan on vinyl, racing home, putting it on his turn table, and then lying back and listening, while pouring over the album art, liner material, lyrics, and other extras. Fast forward to the era of CDs, and ultimately iTunes and digital downloads, and extras became less common, as did buying entire albums. For lazy artists who made one or two good songs and loaded the rest with filler, well deserved.

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Inside iTunes LP: No DRM, Lots of WebKit