Radiohead asks you to decide the price of their new album
October 9th 2007 18:45
Radiohead is doing something wild for their newest album, In Rainbows.
You go to the website.
You download the album. You listen to it.
Then you pay how much you think it's worth. Nothing? Fine, pay nothing.
It's astounding, and, as far as I know, the only 'big-name' act to shuck away the briny suckers of the record labels and do it their way. Total creativity, asking only for donations. As the post on The Sound of Young America notes:
"We don't yet know if the files will be DRM-free, but imagine people putting all their creative efforts into the creation of sound -- then giving it away without restriction, and asking only for donations in return. Throwing their work out into the digital ether without promise of compensation. Rolling the dice and feeding peoples ears (and minds) without certainty of feeding their own mouths."
As a once-lucid Courtney Love noted (after her PR people edited the document, I'm assuming. Have you ever read the posts that she writes herself?), musicians make almost nothing after expenses and fat-cats are paid out. Also read The Problem with Music.
Perhaps this is a better way to make a living, as an artist, than relying on the promotional car wash that the major records labels put out.
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Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
The last album I bought of theirs was Amnesiac. Maybe I should go get myself a bargain (I'll feel guilty and end up paying same as I would in a shop!)
Michaelie