Stuck In A Pagoda With Motoko Aoyama

News flash: Led Zeppelin have given the green light to allow their entire back catalog, along with a new anthology and a remixed The Song Remains The Same soundtrack, to be on all legal digital download services, including iTunes. Just in time for their (alleged) one-off reunion show, too, and a smart move on Jimmy Page’s part.

Meanwhile, my mother was complaining to me the other night that Bob Seger’s few digital offerings (Night Moves and his most recent album) disappeared from iTunes entirely. Seger allegedly doesn’t want people to download individual songs anymore, just his full albums, and I am presuming that Apple balked. Any artist that doesn’t allow their music to be available as legal downloads should just have their CDs and vinyl taken out of print. Seger doesn’t seem to grasp the reality that not everybody wants to have to pay for an entire album just to get one or two songs - iTunes’s “Complete My Album” policy for those wanting to take the rest of the plunge be damned.