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- jd33, on 01/11/2008, -6/+174One small step towards a healthy music industry, another giant leap backwards for the RIAA
- RadiantBeing, on 01/11/2008, -6/+102What worked? Radiohead was a popular band with a huge following before they released their album for free. There is no evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship. Cory Doctorow released all his novels free on the internet and none of them made it on any bestseller lists.
- jakv5, on 01/11/2008, -2/+55That's crazy ....in a good way!
- Nackaroo, on 01/11/2008, -3/+44Its a great album, listened to it for the first time on the way to work this morning.
- MrBabyMan, on 01/11/2008, -6/+36The music industry.
- objectivist, on 01/11/2008, -10/+40MPAA/RIAA = ***** wits that don't know their heads from their asses.
- fkr3, on 01/11/2008, -1/+30The article also says the album sold less physical copies than their previous albums, and that they believe sales were lower than they would have been if they hadn't given it away online.
- johnny222, on 01/11/2008, -2/+27It's a giant leap backward for the RIAA because this album's success effectively proves 1) that their belief that free music downloads affect profit is a fallacy and 2) that preventing what is obviously a huge internet movement is ultimately impossible.
- rude0197, on 01/11/2008, -2/+20It worked because the Radiohead album received more mainstream coverage than any other album in the last 5 years!
- PinkFloydFan, on 01/11/2008, -4/+21Radiohead is one of the most creative and progressive bands of my time. In 50 years our p-head grandchildren will be in college with their Kid A poster hanging next to their Dark Side poster. Also, somewhere in the room will be a John Belushi poster with him wearing a shirt that reads "college".
- NeoSporin, on 01/11/2008, -1/+18I do not... understand... what it is... I've done wrong...
- MrManiac, on 01/11/2008, -2/+19I'm sure the fact that it's a fantastic album helped.
- shiftless, on 01/11/2008, -4/+20Or maybe because the band is in fact, RADIOHEAD? I honestly believe it would have been a top seller regardless.
- ngmcs8203, on 01/11/2008, -0/+15I have to admit, at first listen I wasn't too impressed. But after a few times through, it has definitely revealed itself to me. This is a GREAT album.
- handsoffme, on 01/11/2008, -1/+14down is the new up!
- redlemon, on 01/11/2008, -2/+14nothing will brighten your day quite the same way as sitting down breathing slowly and listening to reckoner. that is, of course, unless you need something as obvious as smash mouth to evict some positive emotion from your artless and probably shallow soul.
/ - Maddenman2000, on 01/11/2008, -3/+15who didn't know that this was going to happen?
- rogerbly, on 01/11/2008, -0/+11it's called iTunes, et al.
- JohnFrazee, on 01/11/2008, -2/+13DIE RIAA DIE
- epohs, on 01/11/2008, -0/+10I wish they still had a way to "purchase" the online files.
I originally bought it for $1, but I've grown to like it a lot more over time. Now I'd like to donate a little more, and I don't care to buy a physical CD, but they took that functionality off of their site. - Phocion55, on 01/11/2008, -1/+11That's kinda the whole point.......
- sHockz, on 01/11/2008, -2/+12i pirated the music....is that wrong of me? na....why?
well, i dont much like listening to entire albums that suck with only one good song on them. i listened to their album, probably one of the best ive heard in years. went to the website, donated $15 for making a worthy album, and didnt bother wasting their bandwidth dloading.
am i a bad person? you gonna come get me RIAA? o noes! you cant! they dont have a label! muahahaha.
so is what i did morally wrong? i dont think so. i think the music should be free, and if you like it, then donate and support the band! *****, im not going to support Saul Williams and Trent Reznor...why.....because i dloaded that ***** album, and deleted it promptly. if you cant make a good album, then you dont deserve money. plain and simple. work hard, get paid. ***** work will always = ***** pay, sorry trent.
*****, why not just let people listen to your music and make a CUSTOMIZED cd? like, i dont want these 3 songs cause they lick butt, but i like all the rest. so knock off $3 and sell me that. i mean, you get about 15 songs a cd, approx. $1/song. I dunno, sounds like a possible solution for the record labels, assuming they want to stay in business. - aznhomig, on 01/11/2008, -0/+10Eat that *****, RIAA.
- pcpimpster, on 01/11/2008, -0/+9Lets just say it worked so we can start picking our price for stuff.
- Houndstooth, on 01/11/2008, -1/+10Sorry, I don't want my music governed by Apple either.
- leprix, on 01/11/2008, -1/+8being really good music helps, too.
- mywhitenoise, on 01/11/2008, -1/+8Kanye probably knows who Radiohead is, I wouldn't be surprised if Jay-Z knew of them either. Beyonce on the other hand....what a bitch. Did you see her celebrity playlist on iTunes? Half the songs are her own!
- terminal157, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6Wow, you're favorite is Hail to the Thief? That's a new one on me. More power to you, though.
- bdbr, on 01/11/2008, -2/+8No, the CD is being released by an RIAA label. Its not like the band is distributing it worldwide themselves.
- dn11, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6best lesson to the music industry: sign bands with actual talent and more than one "good" song on an album and people will be more inclined to buy it rather than download that one good song.
- inactive, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6Power to the people. DIE RIAA DIE!
- mywhitenoise, on 01/11/2008, -2/+7Yeah right, Radiohead is a label's wet dream. Huge following, sells out shows, plenty of number 1 albums. It didn't take long for a label to pick this album up.
- mywhitenoise, on 01/11/2008, -2/+7I have the $80 box set, but was thinking about buying this version to create my own cover, and to avoid wear and tear on my collectors edition.
- samuelcotterall, on 01/11/2008, -0/+5It clearly did work - there are no two ways about it.
Granted, not every band could get their fans to buy something twice, but it proves that the model works, and that record companies need to work to offer the consumer more in terms of a physical record. - SecretFormula, on 01/12/2008, -0/+5I've no idea what you are talking about.
- apraxia, on 01/11/2008, -0/+5No, that guy is German. He meant "Thee RIAA, thee."
- vmwhelan, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4"Eventually someone is going to come up with the online music store that is essentially DIGG for music"
oink :( - HouD, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5Okay, so when do we get the second CD from the album?
- PoliceAtaque, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4What about Kid A and OK Computer? Pretty sure they both took the number one spot for a couple weeks after release.
- inactive, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5Full of holes...Check for pulse
- italianst4, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5http://amiestreet.com
Basically a music download site where all music starts free and as the popularity of the music goes up, the price per song increases. So you get rewarded for downloading good music early... - wingo123, on 01/11/2008, -2/+6So true.
Don't forget the 'Periodic Table of Mixology' and the Dali melting clocks one... - pseudononymist, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3Quoting lines... for some reason...
- pseudononymist, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4Even Yorke himself doesn't think labels need to be done away with. He just thinks that new bands need to read their ***** contracts and make sure they're getting a percentage of all sales, including digital (which is where they most often get screwed, sort of like some writers I've heard about).
edit: oops this was in response to MrEddy - geekoid, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3So you don't think the press coverage of what Radiohead did would get the album more exposure and therefore increase sales?
Also, the fact that Radiohead made 2 million off the sales of the download (which they get to keep since there was no record company to pay!) would indicate the method actually works. Also, a number of people who downloaded the album would never have bought it, and now Radiohead has some of those as fans too.
Stop being such a snappy arrogant troll and research the facts before you bitch at people. - jerryterhorst, on 01/12/2008, -2/+5i think the point is that it didnt fail miserably. if you could download it online for free, the RIAA would have us believe that you would sell something like 200 copies if you then released it. it may have sold less, but #1 is still pretty good considering it was previously... absolutely free.
- terminal157, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3The album sold very well digitally, actually.
- blurrie, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3its radiohead though. it would have happened either way...
- Lutremi, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3A customized CD? What will happen to the intended message of the album that the artist intended? Radiohead actually spent 2 weeks track listing OK Computer, even though they say it's not a concept album, it might as well be one. Your idea would obviously cater to the "1-3 good song CDs" where you would pay $3 for an album and cut the other 10 songs. Bands like Radiohead don't deserve ANY of their songs to be cut - they are quite possibly the Beatles of our generation, only without the mainstream popularity. What if this is what happened to all the great albums of the 20th century? You'll dare cut a song from Sgt. Pepper because it doesn't fit your tastes? No. Just no.
- j3one, on 01/11/2008, -3/+6Thread fails.
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