AC/DC

The band refuses to offer music at iTunes because it isn’t interested in selling individual songs. The only places to acquire the album, Black Ice, is at Wal-Mart Stores or on the band’s Web site. In an interview with Reuters, lead singer Brian Johnson said the band is trying to protect the album format.

“Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful,” Johnson, 61, told Reuters. “It’s a…monster, this thing. It just worries me. And I’m sure they’re just doing it all in the interest of making as much…cash as possible. Let’s put it this way, it’s certainly not for the…love, let’s get that out of the way, right away.”

Angus Young, who co-founded the band with brother Malcolm, told The New York Times last week: “It’s like an artist who does a painting. If he thinks it’s a great piece of work, he protects it. It’s the same thing: this is our work.”

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