Radiohead - In Rainbows October 10th for whatever you want to pay

morten

morten

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this one nearly blew my socks off (but I was wearing shoes so it didn't actually happen):

Radiohead is releasing their new album In Rainbows on October 10th. For those of you in the know this album was scheduled to be released some time in the spring of 2008.

Not only that but they are selling the album in it's entirety without DRM off their website.

And it gets better: You decide what you want to pay. so if you want to pay $59 per song you can, if you want to pay $0 for the album you can.

This is by far the smartest anti-piracy plot I've ever seen: If you pirate these songs you are a total idiot 'cuz you can get them for free anyway. And this makes people who normally wouldn't pay for the songs pay anyway.

The album will also be released in a "discbox" that contains not only the digital download but also the album on CD and on 2x12 inch vinyls for the audiophiles. In addition there's a second enhanced cd with more songs, digital photos and artwork and a hardback book containing artwork and lyrics. All for the not-so-palatable price of £40.00 (though I don't think they'll have any problems selling these boxes either)

http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/index3.html

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Bad assssssssss
I can't wait.
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I'll be one of the idiots lining up to buy the disc with the additional songs...book...etc etc etc
 
all on their own without a record label as well.. they will make bucks on this.

great concept. great band.
 
This is really a great arrangement for everybody. Radiohead has absolutely no need for a record label at this point. If you paid a buck a track on iTunes, 35 cents goes to Apple, 57 cents to the label, and 7 cents to the artist--as a rough estimate. So even paying a buck to the band for the whole album puts more money in their pockets than buying off of iTunes. I think most people will pay more and feel good about it. Some people will DL for free and these are the same people who would have leeched the music anway, so no big deal.
 
The reason this won't work for movies is because popular music artists make much more money touring and with merchandising than the music itself. The album is like advertising for a brand, the artist. A movie is the end product and the primary source of revenue, except for merchandising, but not all movies are merchandiseable, so filmmakers and studios will be much less reluctant to embrace this model. Still, the day is coming when films will be as quickly and easily downloaded as music is today, and the industry is collectively crapping their pants over it...There's a reason this country is far, far behind most of the developed world in internet speed, and it's because a lot of people are using a lot of influence to slow its development.
 
It's a classic!

It's a classic!

marketmd said:
So after all the hype--is the album any good?
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Preordered, paid the going MP3 rate, and downloaded it as soon as it was available, and I've been listening to it every free moment since then.

I'm a bit biased here because I am indeed a Radiohead/Thom Yorke fan, but in my opinion In Rainbows is a little masterpiece, their best since OK Computer, and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes music, shall we say, far to the left of the middle of the beaten path.

Apologies to any real musicians out there, but I've grown tired of the B.S. antics of the music industry and it's talentless sidekicks, so when musicians like Radiohead make music of this calibre and stick their necks out like they did... they get my support all the way!
 
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