The Beatles: Rock Band the masters to come in and just author them ... its like, send people to Abbey Road, use the original tape, separate them out ... it costs thousands of dollars." Drake asserted that Harmonix would take sales of the currently announced albums into consideration before continuing development of downloadable content. Harmonix's Foster stated that solo acts from the Beatles' members will not be included as downloadable content for "The Beatles: Rock Band"; however, he did not rule out the possibility of these acts appearing in other "Rock Band" games. A three pack of songs from Paul McCartney's 2009 live album,
The Beatles (album) agenda. The Beatles themselves were accused of using eclecticism and pastiche as a means of avoiding important issues in the turbulent political and social climate. Jon Landau, writing for the Liberation News Service, argued that, particularly in "Piggies" and "Rocky Racoon", the band had adopted parody because they were "afraid of confronting reality" and "the urgencies of the moment". Like Landau, many writers among the New Left considered the album outdated and irrelevant; instead, they heralded the Rolling Stones' concurrent release, "Beggars Banquet", as what Lennon biographer Jon Wiener terms "the 'strong solution,' a musical turning outward, toward the political