Songs of Innocence

Songs of Innocence

Are you one of the people who complained about that new U2 album Apple gave you last week — the one it inserted into your cloud-based iTunes account without asking if you wanted it, and which would show up as “purchased” in your file history even if you never downloaded it? Then maybe this will help: Apple has changed course and decided to let you delete the album from your collection. It should take a couple steps, but it shouldn’t be that difficult. Head over to this page, which Apple put up on Monday morning. Now you can make your collection Bono-free, or just “Songs of Innocence”-free, or whatever. The only catch appears to be that if you decide you do want your new free U2 album, you’ve only got a month to change your mind: After October 13, the only way to get it from iTunes will be by actually spending money.

Read the full story at re/code.

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