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- xela321, on 10/23/2007, -18/+236Should make up for all the jerks who paid a dollar for it.
- Parkinsons, on 11/02/2007, -8/+190$1 per cd much more then they would make with a regular RIAA sale
- imexcitebike, on 10/23/2007, -8/+171Dugg. This is exactly what the music industry needs right now!
- dustblaaze, on 11/05/2007, -33/+195dugg down for **DIGG THIS**
Thats pretty douchey. Go ahead and bury me. =) - dojonz, on 10/18/2007, -7/+163$1000 for the front page of Digg is a cheap price to pay.
- deviouskoopa, on 10/16/2007, -5/+142they paid $1000 for 10 discboxes and 1 download... not as crazy as $1000 for 1 download like expected... still $200 for the download is crazy
- xpose, on 10/17/2007, -5/+130Incredible PR stunt. Very very smart.
- dgath, on 11/02/2007, -5/+128Record label exec #1: "Holy Crap, someone just bought In Rainbows for $1,000!"
Record label exec #2: "Really? We should look into the 'You name the price' method for selling albums"
Record label exec #1: "Yeah, but we we'll have to set a minimum of say.... $15. We can't have people not paying anything for it, but we'll of course let people pay as much as they want for it"
Record label exec #2: "Genius!"
Record label exec #1: "Genius!"
[and they open bottles of Guiness] - blgdinger, on 10/16/2007, -10/+130Man someone likes radiohead. If I had the 5$ I would have paid it. The whole movement is pretty righteous, and make sense. Radiohead isn't my favorite but it sure as hell seems logical to pay what you think something is worth. I suppose 1000$ is worth paying just to have this type of thing enabled when buying other cds.
btw i love you - Taedirk, on 10/23/2007, -3/+115I'm sorry. The answer we were looking for was "Sparta." "Sparta." But there are some lovely parting gifts!
- music1234, on 11/02/2007, -9/+114Defintly showing support for the new era of the music industry.
- takeda, on 10/15/2007, -2/+98If you ask me, that's a pretty sweet deal for advertising on digg and other places.
- mylkhead, on 10/23/2007, -4/+78Wow, yeah I think $1000 goes a long way with something like this. Maybe it will encourage other artists to put their records up and let the listeners determine what their value is to them.
- gmoney1, on 10/15/2007, -5/+66the end of this train.
- mikeeeeeee, on 10/15/2007, -0/+55All I see is an order for 10 box sets at 40 pounds each and one download for 100 pounds. When did they buy the album at $1000? They bought 11 albums...
- Matt174e, on 10/13/2007, -1/+52Is.
- juicebag, on 10/13/2007, -5/+53This.
- tmh27, on 10/23/2007, -21/+68Powerful statement, you guys rock, read their press release it is good
- elipabst, on 10/13/2007, -0/+44Meh. I paid $15 to make up for some of you cheap asses.
- Lancer383, on 10/20/2007, -3/+44Are they? Or are they paying $200 for the Download and then $800 for the Discbox's which will someday be worth much more than what they paid for them? Oh, and don't forget all the publicity that is coming their way because of this, all submitted by someone who just joined Digg today.
I call shenanigans. But still, at least Radiohead is getting paid for it.
P.S. Reckoner rocks. - heypetray, on 10/14/2007, -5/+45Exactly. $1000 for the publicity is nothing... I'm sure it had nothing to do with how awesome the band is.
Anonymous Philanthropy is the way to go. I'm not telling how much I paid :) - ElGanyan, on 10/14/2007, -1/+36If you ask me it's a marketing ploy (whether they did it or not is irrelevant). I mean come on, they even set up a press release on the landing page with "photographic" evidence of the order. The traffic this will provide will be more than worth the $1k they've invested.
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -2/+37Technical detail - They payed 100 pounds for the digital download, the rest was applied towards the physical discbox which had a set price.
- xtr3m, on 10/14/2007, -1/+35I'm sorry, but don't digg this.
It's a pure marketing move. $1000 is a fair price for the amount of exposure the company is going to get. It's on par with destroying an iPhone and making a video of it. - appleswitch, on 10/13/2007, -2/+34$1 per cd is much more than they would make with everyone torrenting it.
- Schmapdi, on 10/22/2007, -0/+31Yes - but I bet Radiohead (or whoever) gets a much larger share of that 8 dollars than they would get from the $13 or whatever they would have sold it at from their record label deal.
- argeaux, on 10/14/2007, -8/+37I second this. Totally lame. It would have been impressive if they paid $1000 for just the digital download, but they bought a bunch of the box sets.
Stay tuned, I'm going to put up a web site showing that I bought something at a charity-owned thrift store. Where's my 15 minutes? - eville84, on 10/16/2007, -2/+31this post is inacurate. the only gave Radiohead £99 for one album. they spent £400 on 10 boxsets. This is the cost radiohead was charging. (boxsets are a package that contain artwork / cds) Purebuttons.com is nothing but shameless promotors making false claims.
- Annon, on 10/17/2007, -14/+43While I'm all for radiohead getting props for their record, why the need to put out a press release and everything?
You paid the $1000 for all the publicity you are going to get and spammed your site here.
Buried as spam. - Jebral, on 10/13/2007, -3/+29...because I want you all to think I paid a lot. :)
- pilardi, on 10/16/2007, -6/+31Buried for having **DIGG THIS** in headline.
- FullBleed, on 10/15/2007, -3/+27http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25You don't have $5? This is a CD everyone should pay for. It is a way to show the record industry that this is how music should be.
- Jsmakr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Great idea for cheap marketing by them and even better it's great for Radiohead.
- markp93, on 10/23/2007, -0/+20Here, I think you dropped this. (hands them a decimal point)
- zspeed78, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I agree.. isnt this a lie. They paid a lot of money for the box sets theyre going to hand out to people as gifts.. and only a little for the digital download. Its pretty lame to try and say you paid $1000 just for the download.
- Cenobite, on 10/15/2007, -1/+19I love you too.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20oh the irony
- ninjakyle, on 10/13/2007, -5/+22That is great! Thanks for supporting people that think outside the box. Hopefully more musicians will try stuff like this.
- bassman730, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16And by larger share you mean all of it
- StriferDiem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16$8 per album sold is a massive amount more than what they would be getting if it were released through a major (probably around 50cents or less).
- ccra300, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17It's not everyday that bands will let you pay literally nothing for a cd. It takes a lot from a band to be able to step up and offer this to the public, but it takes even more from the public to step up further and pay more than $1.00 for and artists work or even download it for free. Making a statement like Purebuttons did being the consumer in the situation says a lot, we support the entertainment business. Without it the world would be bland.
- Matt174e, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The diskbox comes with both vinyl and CD formats
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/14/2007, -0/+15I have to admit that my first thought on reading the headline was "front paged... best grand these guys ever spent".
- MikeWanDo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Brilliant!
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23that sucks considering:
"They're releasing In Rainbows on CD in January through one of the Big Four (all of whom they're in negotiations with right now), and it might contain extra material not found in the digital version."
( http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cop-out/radiohead-selli ... ) - RedS0x, on 10/17/2007, -4/+17LEAVE...BRITNEY...ALONE!!!
- stu42j, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I agree. Putting **DIGG THIS** in the title is redundant. Why would you post on Digg if you didn't want people to digg it?
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15the website is actually very nice.
- Schmapdi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I'm sure they still have some management/producers/overhead that need to be paid.
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