The Limited Edition Beatles USB Stick

Disc-based media is so yesterday's news.

Fresh off the heels of the announcement by Kingston and Paramount about releasing full-feature movies on USB, Apple Corps. (no, not that Apple) has added a new product to The Official Beatles Shop: the Limited Edition Beatles USB Stick.

Hardcore Beatles fans may remember that Apple Corps. debuted the the Fab Four's digitally re-mastered catalog on CD on 9/9/09. This time, the company is releasing that same catalog via a more eminently portable USB drive.

Besides the Beatles' songs, folks who buy this stick will also get mini-documentary films, re-mastered "visual elements," original art, liner notes and rare pictures. All that will set your wallet back by $279.99.

Just make sure you don't let the stick be and have your kid or goofball roommate accidentally overwrite it while clearing up space to save a term paper. If you haven't backed up your data, then no amount of yelling "Help!" would rectify the situation.

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