Radiohead about to change the music buying game..

Seiko Flossberg · Post by **Seiko Flossberg** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:48 am

wheels wrote:If bands like radiohead can cut their label ties, I'm of the opinion that they can put out more music at better prices. That to me is worth the 90 bucks I'll end up paying for this.

staytribe. · Post by **staytribe.** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:59 pm

SOMEONE THROW ME A LINK

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:17 pm

wheels wrote:
Fuckin' A wrote:
wheels wrote:
DLG wrote:I see what citizen is saying, and I really am a big fan of radiohead, but this internets shit has become so insane that I am not even tempted to care for a band of this stature. Not even for the sake of tallies or whatever.

Like I said, I'm still generally grassroots and always buy shit at shows, I have a closet full of concert tees I rarely wear...I just have absolutely no need to go to their site and fill out shit and wait for passwords or whatever when I can just get it off before I leave for work tomorrow.
I think that's pretty weak considering you can get it from them for free. This to me is the new model for grassroots promo/sales. I personally want this thing to succeed so we'll see more of it. I gave em 10 bucks, and will probably buy the box set since that's where they're making their money off this.

Album is nuts, better than expected.
I'm with DLG on this one. The digital d/l is only at 160kbps. It's not even CD quality sound. When you buy the discbox it comes with the d/l anyway. No use in paying $91.00. 81 is enough. Radiohead will be fine. Their families will not be starving, and they'll make more than enough money from this album. Especially if a ton of people buy the discbox.
A clean mp3 at 160kbps is fine, I doubt anyone here could tell the difference. The files haven't been copied and up/downloaded a billion times like most of the free crap out there on blog sites or torrents.

If bands like radiohead can cut their label ties, I'm of the opinion that they can put out more music at better prices. That to me is worth the 90 bucks I'll end up paying for this.

I guess you don't know, but Radiohead is signing to a major soon. Then they're releasing In Rainbows worldwide.

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:17 pm

staytribe. wrote:SOMEONE THROW ME A LINK

it's all about :ethief:

, son.

deepfriedjellol · Post by **deepfriedjellol** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:30 pm

Fuckin' A wrote:
staytribe. wrote:SOMEONE THROW ME A LINK
it's all about , son.

orrrrrrrrrrrrrr

http://www.google.com/search?client=fir ... gle+Search

that google shit works wonders

you can get the new britney spears hotness too!

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:44 pm

Fuckin' A wrote:
wheels wrote:
Fuckin' A wrote:
wheels wrote:
DLG wrote:I see what citizen is saying, and I really am a big fan of radiohead, but this internets shit has become so insane that I am not even tempted to care for a band of this stature. Not even for the sake of tallies or whatever.

Like I said, I'm still generally grassroots and always buy shit at shows, I have a closet full of concert tees I rarely wear...I just have absolutely no need to go to their site and fill out shit and wait for passwords or whatever when I can just get it off before I leave for work tomorrow.
I think that's pretty weak considering you can get it from them for free. This to me is the new model for grassroots promo/sales. I personally want this thing to succeed so we'll see more of it. I gave em 10 bucks, and will probably buy the box set since that's where they're making their money off this.

Album is nuts, better than expected.
I'm with DLG on this one. The digital d/l is only at 160kbps. It's not even CD quality sound. When you buy the discbox it comes with the d/l anyway. No use in paying $91.00. 81 is enough. Radiohead will be fine. Their families will not be starving, and they'll make more than enough money from this album. Especially if a ton of people buy the discbox.
A clean mp3 at 160kbps is fine, I doubt anyone here could tell the difference. The files haven't been copied and up/downloaded a billion times like most of the free crap out there on blog sites or torrents.

If bands like radiohead can cut their label ties, I'm of the opinion that they can put out more music at better prices. That to me is worth the 90 bucks I'll end up paying for this.
I guess you don't know, but Radiohead is signing to a major soon. Then they're releasing In Rainbows worldwide.

Link please

The Iron Sheik · Post by **The Iron Sheik** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:10 pm

wheels wrote:
Fuckin' A wrote:
wheels wrote:
Fuckin' A wrote:
wheels wrote: I think that's pretty weak considering you can get it from them for free. This to me is the new model for grassroots promo/sales. I personally want this thing to succeed so we'll see more of it. I gave em 10 bucks, and will probably buy the box set since that's where they're making their money off this.

Album is nuts, better than expected.
I'm with DLG on this one. The digital d/l is only at 160kbps. It's not even CD quality sound. When you buy the discbox it comes with the d/l anyway. No use in paying $91.00. 81 is enough. Radiohead will be fine. Their families will not be starving, and they'll make more than enough money from this album. Especially if a ton of people buy the discbox.
A clean mp3 at 160kbps is fine, I doubt anyone here could tell the difference. The files haven't been copied and up/downloaded a billion times like most of the free crap out there on blog sites or torrents.

If bands like radiohead can cut their label ties, I'm of the opinion that they can put out more music at better prices. That to me is worth the 90 bucks I'll end up paying for this.
I guess you don't know, but Radiohead is signing to a major soon. Then they're releasing In Rainbows worldwide.
Link please

pretty sure it would only be a distro deal

and they are doing this in a year

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:01 pm

I hadn't heard anything about it, but the key word in there was if. If there's a viable way for established bands to shake their labels it will be good.

I don't have anything against record labels, I think they do a lot of good for newer artists. They provide a lot of exposure, shit like that. Radiohead has kind of ascended beyond the need for a label. imho, yo, duuk

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:17 pm

This is a really good album. Their best since Kid A.

Dunnnnleavy · Post by **Dunnnnleavy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:58 am

Icesickle wrote:This is a really good album. Their best since Kid A.

i think it's better than Kid A, but that's a good reference point for comparison because it seems like Kid A's more accessible brother for some reason.

axel foley · Post by **axel foley** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:02 am

not sure if this has already been said but i'm pretty NIN will also be doing the same thing.

does anyone know if their (NIN) marketing campaign ended paying off last year? i remember that shit being pretty slick.

deepfriedjellol · Post by **deepfriedjellol** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:54 am

never even listened to the NIN, so that says something
and im a decent fan of his

Vlad Analogue · Post by **Vlad Analogue** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:14 pm

Oasis and jamiroquai are jumping on the train

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:44 pm

news

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news ... -delivered

this album is pretty good, i still like hail to the thief, ok computer and prolly amnesiac better, but its good all the way through

Snuggles the DESTROYER · Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:05 pm

I've never been the biggest Radiohead fan but this album is mezmerising.

I listened to it front to back a couple times driving from Flagstaff to Phoenix and back.

"House of Cards","Nude", "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" have changed my opinion of Radiohead as being too pretentious. After this I will take the time to listen to the albums in between this and "The Bends".

Patches O'Houlihan · Post by **Patches O'Houlihan** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:06 pm

album is great, great, great!

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:19 pm

I dig this album alot too. Never was a Radiohead fan either

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:24 pm

Snuggles the DESTROYER wrote:I've never been the biggest Radiohead fan but this album is mezmerising.

I listened to it front to back a couple times driving from Flagstaff to Phoenix and back.

"House of Cards","Nude", "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" have changed my opinion of Radiohead as being too pretentious. After this I will take the time to listen to the albums in between this and "The Bends".

Good, because those are the ones that really matter.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:53 am

Yeah, this album was a huge fuckin' surprise to me.

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:02 am

Captin Planit wrote:Yeah, this album was a huge fuckin' surprise to me.

why

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:47 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_ ... load_study

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer Tue Nov 6, 2:52 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, "In Rainbows," and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.

Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded "In Rainbows" in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.

Radiohead broke with its past practice of releasing its music in CD format and through a major record label when it released its seventh studio album online itself. The biggest wrinkle was the band's decision to let fans pay as much or as little as they wanted to download a copy.

The results of the study were drawn from data gathered from a few hundred people who are part of comScore's database of 2 million computer users worldwide. The firm, which has permission to monitor the computer users' online behavior, did not provide a margin of error for the study's results.

Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 29, about 1.2 million people visited the Web site the band set up for fans to download the album, comScore said Monday. The research firm did not say how many people in its study actually bought the album.

Among U.S. residents, about 40 percent who downloaded the album paid to do so. Their average payment was $8.05, the firm said.

Some 36 percent of the fans outside the U.S. who downloaded the album opted to pay; on average, those fans paid $4.64, according to the study.

Radiohead's U.S.-based publicist said Tuesday the band had no comment on the study.

The online release sent shock waves through the recording industry, with some hailing it as a shrewd move at a time of declining CD sales industrywide and others writing it off as a publicity stunt that amounted to the band giving away its music.

The band, which also offered fans the option of buying a lavish box set for about $82, plans to release the album in CD format some time next year.

blessingindisguise · Post by **blessingindisguise** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:57 am

All that revenue without a video or physical copies pressed up is pretty amazing in today's climate.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:14 pm

Fuckin' A wrote:
Captin Planit wrote:Yeah, this album was a huge fuckin' surprise to me.
why

I just didn't know this was happening until two weeks before it was released, and I didn't think it was gonna be much good. But I was very wrong.

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:40 pm

Captin Planit wrote:
Fuckin' A wrote:
Captin Planit wrote:Yeah, this album was a huge fuckin' surprise to me.
why
I just didn't know this was happening until two weeks before it was released, and I didn't think it was gonna be much good. But I was very wrong.

Yes you were

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:42 pm

I love the second disc. Some of these songs could have made it on In Rainbows.

Last Flowers is such a GREAT song.

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:15 pm

Fuckin' A wrote:I love the second disc. Some of these songs could have made it on In Rainbows.

Last Flowers is such a GREAT song.

Fuckin' A · Post by **Fuckin' A** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:26 pm

Here ya go:

Fuckin' A wrote:This is the second disc that's being given out in the boxset. VBR, so it's high quality stuff!!

"MK 1" - 1:04
"Down Is the New Up" - 4:59
"Go Slowly" - 3:48
"MK 2" - 0:53
"Last Flowers" - 4:26
"Up on the Ladder" - 4:17
"Bangers + Mash" - 3:20
"4 Minute Warning" - 4:06
Code: Select all
http://www.sendspace.com/file/m0v52l

blessingindisguise · Post by **blessingindisguise** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:59 am

^^ Props on posting it.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:51 am

heres the thing, is by now they probably have all their own recording equipment and studio, and really without having to press up physical copies or paying labels or distributors 38% of 1.2 million copies at an average of 6.00 is probably more then they would have made anyway...

Sut07 · Post by **Sut07** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:51 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/ ... ref=slogin

Pay What You Want for This Article

Taking chances with commerce as well as art: From left, Ed OגBrien, Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Phil Selway (reflected in the mirror) and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.

By JON PARELES
Published: December 9, 2007

OXFORD, England

SHORTLY after Radiohead released its album גIn Rainbowsג online in October, the band misplaced its password for Max/MSP, a geek-oriented music software package that the guitarist Jonny Greenwood uses constantly. It wasnגt the first time it had happened, Mr. Greenwood said over a cup of tea at the venerable Randolph Hotel here. As usual Radiohead contacted Max/MSPגs developers, Cycling ג74, for another password. גThey wrote back,ג Mr. Greenwood said, גגWhy donגt you pay us what you think itגs worth?גג

Well, Radiohead was asking for it. Those are the exact terms on which the band is selling the downloadable version of גIn Rainbowsג: Buyers can pay zero or whatever they please up to

Radiohead about to change the music buying game..

Most fans paid $0 for Radiohead album