Wal-Mart Lands AC/DC Album Exclusive, Snubs Verizon

Reuters is reporting that AC/DC’s next studio album will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

That’s fascinating to us, since Verizon Wireless already has the exclusive rights to sell the band’s entire back catalog through March 2008, as we originally reported back in August.

That deal was only for full albums, though. Since full-album downloads “are too large and too expensive to sell from mobile phones,” Verizon sold them only from the desktop V CAST service for $12 a pop, as the article stated. It’s strange that AC/DC went back to an exclusive, physical CD deal, with nary a peep about mobile this time, don’t you think? Doesn’t say much for how well their Verizon downloads are selling.

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