Radiohead's next album,
In Rainbows, is complete and
coming out Oct. 10 in digital form before coming out as a double-CD/double-12-inch box on Dec. 3, a beat-the-leakers move that recalls both
Stars' three-months-early digital distribution of their album
In Our Bedroom After The War and Matador Records'
Buy Early Get Now program. People who pony up the £40 ($81.18 as of this writing) for the deluxe edition (packaging above) will automatically have access to the download, but those who just want the files on their hard drive are being allowed to go the "pay what you like" route, an art-museumy move that inspired former Idolator guestblogger Eric Harvey to coin the should-be-used-by-everyone term
"lossy leader."
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