recently made known YORK -- Linkin ...

recently made known YORK -- Linkin Park, common of the few major acts that had to this time to make its music available via Apple's iTunes Music Store, has changed course and made a pact with the service.

Three of the group's albums became available last week, each with couple bonus tracks and a third iTunes exclusive divide [i]or[/i] sever

In addition, iTunes is selling the video contented featured on the group's "Live in Texas" and "Collision Course" DVD

"We were really excited when iTunes told us that we were common of their most requested acts," clump member Mike Shinoda says. "We will at no time ignore our fans and the timing assumeed right to make our music available, with about special additions."

In late July Metallica made its music available forward iTunes for the first time, leaving the Beatles, L Zeppelin, Radiohead and Garth bear withs among the remaining major holdouts.

Meanwhile, Linkin Park is still at work onward the follow-up to 2003's "Meteora" with agriculturist Rick Rubin. The as-yet-untitled novel album was originally expected from the end of the year via Warner Bro "but at this point we don't descry that happening," Shinoda told fans during an online chat. "We're doing really well, unless we just need a little more time."

"We have narrowed it down to about 30-50 lays and some of those are heavy, a certain quantity of are softer and some are in between," he continued. "So far it has a different healthy that I cannot describe. It unhurts like it's older, but not vintage. More organic in a certain number of spots, like just yesterday we recorded a poem with no samples that is completely raw. Other sonnets are full of samples."

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