Radiohead - Pay What You Want For Their New Album
Beginning October 10th, you can download Radiohead’s latest album (”In Rainbows”) and pay what you want for it.
The U.K. band is testing the waters in the right direction for breaking the stranglehold the record labels have on music distribution. Consider this a thumb in the eye of RIAA and the entertainment industry music piracy hypocrites it represents.
If you like Radiohead’s music, get the album and pay what you feel it is worth. The more successful these type of album releases are, the weaker the music copyright infringement watchdogs become.
Hat tip to Angela Monaghan at The Telegraph.
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Mike Young | Oct 12, 2007 | Reply
RIAA is probably laughing over this one. Radiohead released the music for download with poor audio quality. Not content to have it attributed to tech ignorance, the band’s manager was stupid enough to say the poor quality downloads were just a promo stunt to encourage buying the physical CD. If the downloads had been free (instead of pay what you want without knowing the poor quality), that would be one thing…good viral marketing. Instead, Radiohead just took a serious hit in its fan base with a stunt that disrespected those who appreciate their music the most. Dumb marketing.