I heard this on my car radio yesterday but as I wasn’t really listening I wasn’t entirely sure if I’d heard it correctly.
THE Apple iTunes music store has refused to sell the charity Band Aid song Do They Know It’s Christmas? because of a dispute over the proposed price of £1.49.
The Apple iTunes store usually sells tracks for 79p and has refused to raise the price in this instance for the charity record and the Band Aid organisers have refused to allow the price to be dropped to 79p as this will mean less money from each sale going to charity.
This seems to be a bit of a public relations disaster for Apple. I cannot see how this utter lack of charity is not going to damage Apple’s carefully crafted image.
The Band Aid single is of course available at numerous other stockists.
BBC News: Stores to stock 1m Band Aid CDs
Times Online: Apple iTunes don’t know it’s Christmas-time at all
Apologies for the awful pun in the title.
Tags: music
