Stop Googling “how to sell a song on iTunes” and immediately go grab your guitar. If you haven’t heard yet, Beck is making serious waves lately for releasing a new album…wait for it…entirely in sheet music.

That’s right – Beck’s new album is sheet music.

You’re not getting an EP you can download and rock out to immediately – oh no, my friends! – you’re getting twenty unrecorded songs you have to play to hear. According to the promo site, “in the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music.”

Sheet music has not held a spot in the limelight since the early 1900s, when it reigned as king of music sales charts for a comfortable century. But ever since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, most listeners have preferred to listen to their favorite bands’ recorded music as a completed unit of sound, not focusing on the melody itself like when playing sheet music. Sheet music isn’t entirely archaic, however – it’s been digitized by iPad applications like Tonara, which displays sheet music while listening to the music you’re playing and “turning the page” for you. Perhaps, should you pick up Beck’s new album, this app will come in handy.

Fans and critics alike are hailing Beck’s bold move as ingenious, innovative, and truly inspirational. How do you sell songs on iTunes? If you’re Beck, you don’t! If you’re you, you record those songs as fast as your fingers can play and you get your music uploaded online. Yes – there is a sense of urgency here. Don’t waste time waiting for Apple customer support to get back to you, let SongCast slash your waiting time and spread your amazing interpretation of this musical milestone throughout the internet like wildfire.