wired.com — Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have been taking turns giving the music industry the finger. The British band made headlines last October for releasing In Rainbows without the support (read: control) of a record label, and Trent Reznor's group followed suit with last month's Ghosts I-IV.
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Closed AccountMar 27, 2008
If you combined Radiohead's music with Trent's business model you'd really have something.
misternomonikerMar 27, 2008
Smart Gimmick for free advertising? Come on, how cynical can you be?I admit there shouldn't be a comparison here. Reznor is shooting for a paradigm shift, Radiohead isn't. I personally think the 'betrayal' comment was very dickish on Reznor's part. Radiohead isn't trying to play alterna-tech superhero here like he is. They just wanted to put out their album, label or no. File format and size were completely reasonable considering they didn't want their site to be destroyed and they didn't ask for a lot of money for it. It's really unfair to impose your own agenda on someone and then criticize them for not living up to your ideals.
ethericloopzMar 31, 2008
I don't get why this goes under category>Music at all cause it's just stupid judging on one band or the other. Both of them deserve every single cent they made by releasing both "In Rainbows" and "Ghosts I-IV" respectively. Only thing that's bad would be the bands themselves saying the other one is bad in any manner :).Support the artists. Don't go political! :)
pharamond2Mar 31, 2008
No they did NOT say that there would be a physical release in stores all along. I was very excited about the In Rainbows release and ordered the download on the first day, like many other fans did who wanted to support a band they loved. There was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on that site about there being any physical release other than the $80 box set. I know, because I searched every link on that site possible over and over again to find any info on a later physical release. Now, WELL AFTER the pre-order downloads had all happened, people had actually started to DL the album and discover it was only 160 kb (we all paid 10/2, got dl link 10/9), that nice 3-day chunk of cash had been made ($2.4 - $10 mill - they knew they had made a lot of $$$$ before the 9th), and people started going, "Ummmm...160 kb? WTF?" - THEN Radiohead started talking in public about a physical release in stores to happen later. Again, there was NO mention of the later physical release on the In Rainbows site.
ratzmooseApr 3, 2008
I really doubt it has anything to do with that. First rap music is likely more popular than rock these days and second playing the race card everytime something goes wrong for a black person is just stupid. I think it has to do with that very few ppl have heard of this person (myself included).
namesbondApr 3, 2008
With Teeth and Year Zero did not suck. I hope Nine Inch Nails never stop making music.
4nunca33Apr 5, 2008
see: the bastard fairies
sittinsidewayzApr 15, 2008
Agreed with this response, disagree with original post. The race card has NOTHING to do with this so don't bring it up.