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Don't want the new U2 album in your iTunes account? There's a help page for that

U2 will return to Paris next month.
U2 will return to Paris next month.
By Melissa Ruggieri
Sept 15, 2014
So maybe you weren’t so thrilled to find that Bono and Co. dropped an audio gift into your iTunes account last week .
U2 will return to Paris next month.
U2 will return to Paris next month.

Maybe you hate Apple foisting things upon you without your consent.

Maybe you like to have a little more control over your library.

All fair responses to the unprecedented release of U2’s new album, “Songs of Innocence,” which IS in your purchased bank whether you like it or not.

If the answer is “not,” then Apple has created a way for you to remove the automatic download from your library.
Follow these steps on the help page and “Songs” will disappear.

If you later have delete-r’s remorse and decide that you DO want to hear all of the stomping “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)” and not just the 20 seconds of annoyance from the commercial that seemed to be on every time I glanced at a TV during yesterday’s football games, you will have to download it again.

But good news – it’s still free, because when you’re Bono, you can do that! The band’s “gift” will remain as such until Oct. 13 and then go on sale via traditional retail and other online outlets.

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About the Author

Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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