Too good to be true? Beatles for sale online...

Rumors have swirled countless times that the Beatles' music would finally go on sale at online music stores, and it has finally happened — albeit in a strange way. BlueBeat.com is selling the entire Beatles catalog, including recently-released remastered albums, for the low price of 25 cents per MP3. Oh, and it also streams the Beatles and every other song on the site for free, an unlimited number of times.

The idea that the various stakeholders involved with the Beatles would license an unheard-of music store to sell the band's music at such a steep discount seems highly unlikely. After being tipped off by MusicAlly (subscription required), we're looking into this.

So far, neither BlueBeat, BlueBeat's "partner" BaseBeat, or Media Rights Technologies, which actually owns both BlueBeat and BaseBeat, has responded. The company is located in Santa Cruz, California. More...

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