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- cogen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48Dugg, almost snarfed my lunch on the title. too bad it's just a excerpt, though.
- jdelamater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43Dugg because you said "snarf". I miss Thundercats!
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -13/+35Only the funny part is, Radiohead has been, and continues to act as, an agent of the RIAA.
If they were really serious in what they are saying, they'd leave. That's like someone from Microsoft saying "Hey Microsoft sucks........" and the "..."? ("But it pays awesome"). - eternal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22From my experience it is much better to try and fix the problems where you are at instead of jumping ship at the first sign of trouble. This holds true from marriages to the music industry.
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19geminitojanus
The best and only way to start a revolution is from the inside. - Evari, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20wow, someone has issues...
- HungryMedia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Excellent! Now we need a few more high profile artists to "come out" in criticism of the music industry.
double digg if I could :) - deckard29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Don’t get too excited...it seems Thom was misquoted by the NME (enemy)
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/ - Fafhrd68, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The Beastie Boys have been devling into the internet media pool. They generally feel the same as Radiohead that the music industry hasnt been the best for muscians. I know they have launched a virtual tour with videos, music and shorts.
- buss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Only the funny part is, Radiohead has been, and continues to act as, an agent of the RIAA."
I've heard that Radiohead leaks their own albums to the internet a few weeks or months in advance. I downloaded Hail to the Theif a month or so before it was released and I bought it the day it came out. I'm not entirely sure if Radiohead did leak it, but thats what I hear. - pope7, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18-digg for the self-advertisement.
effing douche..... - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15I can't stand radiohead, but I gotta digg for someone that people listen to saying something that people need to hear.
- userundefine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Thom is just announcing to the world that his band has a new album coming out, that's all. The same thing happened when Hail to the Thief came out. Thom and one other band member did a Yahoo interview (the video may still be accessible, not sure) saying how the RIAA's actions were stupid. geminitojanus had it exactly when he said if Thom was serious, he'd take his band elsewhere.
- truspector, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10My guess is that they probably would leave but the RIAA(insert specific label here) probably owns radio head for a few more albums. I could be wrong however...Don't care enough to research.
- Acidosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So you think its okay to use Digg to trick search engines into thinking anyone likes your website?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8like it or not, Radiohead are still under contract, and their label has is part of the RIAA... if they tried to go around the RIAA on the next album, they would be sued for tens of millions of dollars for breach of contract...
- bort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You speak as if it is so easy. I guess you've had intimate conversations with the members of Radiohead? There are so many other factors that could be at play.
Look at this situation: Millions of students across the globe complain about school every day. Why don't they all just quit? There is always a lot more to something than a simple article can show. - BennyBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8don't we all... i miss the zany antics of Mumra
- h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8From Radiohead's site:
like anybody gives a rats arse:)
is it a quiet week for the NME by any chance?
SHOCK HORROR not much to say UMM SHOCK horror.
i remember now, tape recorders record what yu say .. which may be taken down and used as evidence against you at a later date.
who is thi s jerk shooting his mouth off?
misdirected. missquoted...distorted...out of context...
oh
it s me. i think. but im not sure.
HA ha ha ha oh :) - deckard29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7HTTT fulfilled their 6 album obligation with EMI...so right now Radiohead are free agents...so stop saying they are under the RIAA
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7georgeb, the link should be relevant to the article topic, or else it is spam. there's nothing in your link that really helps a person who is interested in this radiohead/riaa story. so, it is useless and you will be modded down everytime.
- azygousguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Kid A" is an album [entire work].... whereas Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" is not. There is a big difference that makes listening to their albums as a whole much more appealing.
- ultimathule, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9gimmegimmenow doesn't know what he's talking about.
- Stoutlimb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Radiohead calls music industry "a bunch of ***** retards". To read more about our interview, BUY OUR MAGAZINE! Can anyone else see this article as just another ad, or is it just me?
- gdog05, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Both the RIAA and Scott Tenorman must die.
- danpsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I've long been a fan of Radiohead's music and have noticed that their stance on shared music on the Internet has always been kind of blasse, they don't get involved either way. People say that it's real easy to quit the RIAA or whatever, but until just a few years ago the major labels were only a bad deal because of the profit percentages they gave to artists. The RIAA taking on the music listening public is a relatively new phenomenon, and the view from the artists perspective isn't quite yet so dimm that they have to go back to indie labels. Now I'm sure some follow the news more than others and I might expect that Radiohead would jump ship immediately due to their way of being. To people that think that Thom is saying comments like this for promotional purposes, I'd advise you that learn a little bit about the subject before letting cynicism get you. Thom Yorke and Radiohead in general have frequently and unapologetically turned their back on the industry in numerous occasions by breaking boundaries even at the cost of their own fans turning their back due to variations in musical style. I honestly believe that Yorke's comments were probably very straight forward and straight from the heart, due to the frustration he has with the rather stagnant musical scene that's growingly present. Major labels don't understand that there's more than one reason for declining music sales, and one of those reasons is definitely that people aren't being exposed to new music that they find exciting. So much music is cooky cutter and boring and marketed that people would rather just buy nothing and maybe throw on an oldy record instead. It's not that there isn't new music that's exciting, it's that it gets no exposure. I had to chuckle when I read his comment because they are, they are a bunch of ***** morons and in a few years they'll see just how they failed to adapt.
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The average income any RIAA member artist recieves from the sale of a single CD is $1, correct? Wonder what would happen if downloaders started sending $1 directly to the artist every time they download one of their albums...
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Radiohead used to be my favorite band. But they've gotten so pretentious lately that they bore me. Maybe I'm just getting older. Fortunately, I can still go back and listen to Pablo and The Bends and it's not so bad.
- isasusinfinite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6'tends to sound the same in every song'?
Yes, Thom Yorke's voice is Thom Yorke's voice, but there are many subtle nuanced differences in each and every song. And they've only gotten better making rhythmically and harmonically interesting music as time has gone on. Thom's voice is but a single (small) element to the songs, and though most people focus on voice, because that's all they can interpret the meaning of (ie, we all speak, in some fashion or other, but we don't all compose music) it's hardly the only important thing. To parade his voice as the reason you don't like Radiohead is to show your true colours.
. . . . . . . - transeunte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Fighting RIAA with words is just so damn pointless. I mean, what's the chance that somebody will say anything that'll make they change their minds?
Not buying CDs is still the best way to fight back. - kevin_qnn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"As of 2006, the band remains out of contract and it remains to be seen what move they will take in that direction."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioHead#.282005.E2.80.932006.29_Current_recording_sessions - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10dugg for all the Thundercats whoopla...HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- majmcdonald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I've heard that Radiohead leaks their own albums to the internet a few weeks or months in advance. I downloaded Hail to the Theif a month or so before it was released and I bought it the day it came out. I'm not entirely sure if Radiohead did leak it, but thats what I hear."
No, they did not leak it. In fact it was leaked before the album was actually finished. They released a statement later to the effect that they were angry, not so much that the album was released, but that the album was released before it was complete. - nanometer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hmmm......you call the music industry retarded? So why did you allow your last album to be DRMed? Don't tell me you couldn't prevent your company from doing so....I'm sure Radiohead is one of those bands that are on such a high level at which they are granted such liberties...
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10"From my experience it is much better to try and fix the problems where you are at instead of jumping ship at the first sign of trouble. This holds true from marriages to the music industry."
Only for Radiohead, they've been professing the RIAA sucks for years now, and remain a member. This isn't the "first sign of trouble", it's "say bad things about your employer to sell records". If they really cared, they'd not be a part of the RIAA, seeing as there are plenty of avenues other than the RIAA to distribute music. They could become iTunes only, or print the CDs themselves, or any other number of ways to promote their music.
They're not the first band to pull this trick either. Remember the old saying, "Bad Publicity is Publicity Too". or "Any publicity is Good publicity" or however you might have heard it. - CupBeEmpty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://www.awesomeishotthat.com/main/
They also have a whole documentary video shot by their fans - mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Yea Thom! F the RIAA.
And there is a difference between defending your intellectual property and being a RIAA litigious assmonkey. - System84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Radiohead is probably not the only band out there that is fed up with the RIAA. More need to step and say the same exact thing. I think the only way we are going to get rid of the RIAA is if artists start standing up for themselves and coming out against the RIAA. Hell, they take a good chunk of the profits from these artists. Granted the artists are probably pretty well off, but that is not the point.
- isasusinfinite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Whoa dcloud. Peace, man. You obviously didn't notice the '(;' WINKING EMOTICON meaning that I'm half-joking.
And props for saying 'I can't stand radiohead' (a personal opinion) as opposed to someone else's completely unprovable (or at least very, difficult, arguably impossible to prove) 'radiohead sux, tool sux' (a sweeping generalization)
Gotta say, though, I absolutely LOVE the irony inherent in your post. To trade the joking generalization I made about you listening to pop for the serious sweeping conjecture that all people who cannot think for themselves but want to pretend they can are Radiohead listeners is exquisite. Truly priceless.
You're right, though. To generalize your tastes to a pop princess who's music I haven't heard since like 2001 or so is incorrect. I was simply falling into the lowest-common denominator trap. I do understand that Radiohead is not for everybody. Their music runs the gamut from simple and beautiful to extremely layered and complicatedly subtle, with the same thing never happening twice. Many people don't understand music like that, as it's structured more like symphonies than much of what could be considered 'mainstream' (though you could hardly call the last three albums from Radiohead 'mainstream.)
I believe all music should be experienced without pre-conceptions about 'the kind of people who listen to that' or whether something is popular or not, so it saddens me to see someone like yourself disliking Radiohead because of the people you associate with it (or vice versa). Maybe if you put aside your prejudice and gave them a few more listens you might find something to like.
. . . . . . . - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This isn't anything to do with the RIAA, as far as I can see. It's to do with the record companies and their failure to make the most of the internet. Although related, it's a different issue to illegal downloads.
But a couple of nuggets of trivia about Radiohead;
-When Kid A was released in America, they didn't release any singles to promote it.
-When Kid A was released in America, they didn't tour to promote it.
-When Kid A was released in America, they didn't do any interviews to promote it.
Basically, the record company was ***** themselves- a difficult album to promote in the first place (remember "the guitar band's album with no guitars"?)- an album from a band that wasn't terribly well known outside Europe, that was a dramatic break from their previous sound and risking alienating their existing fanbase.
So what happened next?
-About 2 weeks before Kid A was released in America, in was leaked onto the P2P networks.
Now not only did the record company have on their hands an album that only a handful of people were going to even notice, let alone buy, and now they could get hold of it for free. Disaster.
So what happened next?
-When Kid A was released in America, it went straight to number one.
In short, Radiohead know better than most bands how powerful the internet is as a promotional tool, and that good music has the power to sell itself- it doesn't need a fortune to be spent on blowing cocaine up radio DJ's arses.
Yet despite that, Radiohead are one of the few major artists who don't release their music on iTunes, because they don't want the individual songs to be heard out of the context of their albums.
I'm not a massive fan of their music (I like it, but they aren't my favourites), but they are one of the few bands who really do seem to be all about the music. I have to admire their integrity.
Kurt Angle would be proud. - Poeye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5thom can mouth off about major labels and the RIAA till he's blue in the face, but it doesnt change the fact that his band is on capitol records.
- isasusinfinite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey! You just admitted that the link you're posting is for the sole purpose of gaming search engines! I'm sure you'll love it when Google removes your ranking.
- definiteform, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I love Thom Yorke.
- rustyrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Thom is talking about the lack of talent, not the RIAA and DRM. It also sounds like you've never heard any of Radiohead's music, which is sad, because it is unbelievably good.
- blacklilyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i blame metallica for all this bad blood
record companies are ***** retarded... i have been saying it for years and years... pre MP3. But at least other people are agreeing finally. Will it change anything? We'll see. - CaptainMal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The last, and only band, I ever heard called "Math Rock" was Rush, and I don't like them.
Is Math Rock the term you use to indicate a band has given up on innovating and simply pissed into the pool of electronica like all the other trendy twits? If so, then I guess they're math rock.
Nothing they've done since OK Computer has had any guts to it. Just my opinion, but I wish they would go back to mostly playing real instruments. I used to think Radiohead was different and innovative. Now they just seem trendy. I'm not an expert, and I know many people liked their latest albums, but my personal opinion of their last two albums is very low, and I really TRIED to like them, too.
Pablo Honey, The Bends, and OK Computer remain pretty near the top of my list of favorite complete albums though. OK Computer I listened to exclusively for about 7 months when it came out. That thing blew my mind. - Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3RIAA isn't a company -- it's a group of companies. Specifically the major recording labels.
Through crooked and illegal actions (yes, they've been found guilty more then once), they have a fairly good lockdown on store shelf real estate and radio playtime. That's why they continue to make big bucks.
There are lots of independant labels -- fex, the guy from mp3.com (the old one) and Lindows (or whatever they call it now) has started an internet-based label. - justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Math rock typically refers to a very specific type of music. Radiohead is definitely not math rock (that is a crappy name for any kind of music, I admit), but they are also definitely not some super esoteric artsty band that only musicians can appreciate. I must qualify that by saying that I am a musician, so my opinion is certainly skewed, but Radiohead's first really popular song was Creep. Does anyone here find that song to be complicated, or difficult to understand? Probably not. They have definitely been more creative on recent albums, but I listen to lots and lots and lots of music, and Radiohead is not even close to what I would consider musician's music. If you want to hear musician's music I suggest something like Gang Gang Dance, Mu, Excepter, Lightning Bolt, Xiu Xiu - Ok, so now I am just plugging music that I like...
- malloreigh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3a scathing attack? hardly. more like an offhand comment.
- willistg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it convinced me to go to Barnes and Noble and read it, but I'm not buying it. :D
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