by SHANE SINNOTT

If you’re a fan of the Beatles, you’ll know that they’re known for being stingy with their music rights. You’ll almost never hear their songs in a commercial or a movie. Also important, for Load-down purposes, is that the biggest selling music act of all time has never inked a deal with iTunes, or any other online music retailer. There isn’t, nor has there ever been, a way to legally purchase and download Beatles music. Everyone figured they’d eventually come to terms with Apple, but now Dhani Harrison, son of the late George, is indicating they may go their own route. Referring to the head of Apple (the tech company, not the Beatles’ label), Harrison said in an interview last week, “[Steve Jobs] says that a download is worth 99 cents, and we disagree.” I bet you do, you little heir-to-a-massive-music-rights-fortune, you! Instead, Harrison introduced the possibility of creating their own Beatles-only online music store, which sounds like a good way to make a shitload of money.

In a related note, just last month, Norwegian Public Radio put up a legal online archive of radio-show episodes in which every Beatles song was discussed and then played, and the worldwide hullabaloo resulted in its shutdown the next day—read about it at tinyurl.com/9a3zqe.

I’ve spent a long time trying to be willfully ignorant of Twitter, the “micro-blogging” Web site that you hear way too much about, but I think I might be converted after reading P. Diddy’s, whose feed you can subscribe to at twitter.com/iamdiddy. Twitter’s deal is that you write super-short entries many times a day, usually through a Blackberry or whatever while you’re out and about. Anyway, if you read Diddy’s, you’re in for a treat. Three entries from Feb. 27: “6.29am - Having tantric sex!!!”; “7.51 - 1 hour down, 35 more to go. Focus, Sean, focus!!!”; “10.48 - 3 hrs down, 33 more to go. Let’s go people!! Do u believe????” Or, from the Oscars, “I’m holding an oscar rt now and takin a bubble bath!!!! God is great!!! Let’s go people.”

Of course, he’s giving Kayne West a run for his money in the crazy-rich-hip-hop-guy-lifestyle blogs—check kanyeuniversecity.com/blog.

>>Six picks for clicks

Nana Grizol, “Circles ‘Round the Moon”: If you’re nostalgic for Elephant 6/NMH, this will ease the pain. tinyurl.com/cd54h7

Peter Bjorn and John, “It Don’t Move Me”: Anything without the fucking whistling would be good, but this one from their upcoming record sounds like Kill the Moonlight-era Spoon! tinyurl.com/desz6b

LCD Soundsystem, “No Love Lost”: Imagine the Joy Division version, but happier. tinyurl.com/cc8tp4

Elliott Smith, “I’m So Tired”: Because they can’t stop you from downloading Beatles covers. tinyurl.com/dxonvv

Aidan Moffat & the Best-Ofs, “Big Blonde”: New material from one half of the now-defunct Arab Strap. tinyurl.com/dmcme7

Ladytron, “Tomorrow (Vector Lovers Lucky Remix)”: Ladytron take a break from writing songs for Christina Aguilera to release a digital EP with six remixes of “Tomorow,” including this one. tinyurl.com/dbejq7