Wed, Oct 3, 2007
Due to the music industry’s decline in sales, Radiohead tries something new: Leaving their old record label behind, fans get to pay whatever price they find reasonable for the latest album, “In Rainbows”.
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Tracklisting:
15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE
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October 4th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I’m no big radiohead fan, but may throw a few dollars their way to help make the industry sit up and take note. I’d agree with the one guy’s comment that this is a tough channel for non-big name musicians, but the change has got to start somewhere.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:22 am
I just bought the “In rainbows” album from the radiohead website. I’m not a fan, but I was willing to pay the price of a cup of coffee and a muffin to own this album.
This is an extremely clever strategy – this album would be available on a torrent site (and probably is) as soon as it was released. Try though the music industry might, they aren’t going to win this war – expensive music will be pirated. The misconception by the industry is that people want to cheat and pay nothing. I believe the public was faced with three choices; either go to a music store and get ripped off with the price of a cd, buy tracks from the likes of iTunes and be unable to do a lot with it because of DRM, or download it illegally and save a whole load of hassle. Now there is another choice – buy it as an mp3 at a fair price.
The bottom line is that Radiohead will receive monies from people who would have otherwise obtained it illegally. Even getting 50c is better than getting nothing. On the whole, people are honest – if its fair, they will pay. Its a brilliant idea.
June 30th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
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