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Radiohead Already Over The Whole Free Download Thing

The "pay what you want" online release of In Rainbows may have set Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan off to discover their own maverick ways, but it looks like Thom Yorke is a little tired of the brave new world. "I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation," said Yorke. Rather than admit that he's loving the taste of Dave Matthews' crunchy granola over at ATO, or that financially the online release of In Rainbows wasn't all that it could have been, he's crediting his anomie on the lack of "significance" it would have if they did it again. It's always about significance with you, isn't it, Thom? More »

9:45 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Anthony Miccio
536 views, 9 comments

Latest by null: Comment on Radiohead Already Over The Whole Free Download Thing um, In Rainbows didn't "set Billy Corgan off" to do anything. Smashing Pumpkins released an album for free way back in 2000, back when ipods and mp3s were still not more »

The other night, I was doing a little bit of last-minute holiday shopping at the soon-to-be-closing Virgin Megastore and I noticed something: Staff members were wearing T-shirts touting Radiohead's In Rainbows, complete with a reminder that the album would be available in the store where I was standing on Jan. 1. Not sure if this t-shirt is only being worn by people who work at the rapidly shrinking chain—and aren't top-down wardrobe edicts an excellent way to keep up employee morale?—but I did find it kind of interesting, if only in an "allegedly forward-thinking band embraces the oldest promotional tactic in the American book (casual Friday edition)" way. Anyone want to bet how high a price one of those shirts would fetch on eBay?

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Courtney Love Ready To Embrace Digital Future (Typing Lessons Not Included)

Gene Simmons may not be too pleased with Radiohead's recent digital-distribution experiment, but the still-unsigned-to-a-major Courtney Love is thinking of going the In Rainbows route with her next record. Only she wants to one-up Thom Yorke and the gang by releasing her "A-list material"—and not a bunch of cobbled-together tracks that have been percolating for a while and that got lapped up by the Internet as OMG THE GREATEST THING EVER anyway—on her own terms, and not just as a "promotional stunt for the CD," and after she does Oprah. More »

5:05 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By mjohnston
688 views, 5 comments

Latest by poppies: its a fact that if a word ends and begins with the same letters and theres some semblence of most of the letters such as "mganent" 98% of us can decipher the word. I dont know why Courtney Love more »

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Radiohead Fans: You Didn't Actually Expect Us To Pay For In Rainbows, Did You?

Remember last month, in the wake of Radiohead's pay-what-you-will announcement, when every news outlet and blog was polling its readership as to how much they would be willing to plunk down on In Rainbows? And remember when all those Radiohead fans claimed they would be supporting their favorite band in its paradigm-busting endeavor by paying a reasonable amount? Well, it looks like some of them were fibbing. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By jharv
1,597 views, 4 comments

In case you want to go crazy and blow your rent on Radiohead's In Rainbows, be warned: The online order form maxes out at £99.99 ($205.81), as one blogger found out. Oh no, you might have to actually pay for other albums in order to satisfy your shopping jones! [LimeWire Blog]

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Radiohead To Journalists: You'll Get Your "In Rainbows" MP3s When Everyone Else Does

In what I think is a pretty genius/ballsy move—not only for the way it circumvents "leak culture" for a band that's essentially giving away its music for free, but for the way it guarantees even more publicity for an act that really doesn't need it right now—Radiohead has announced (via its PR company, Nasty Little Man) that it won't be sending out advances of In Rainbows prior to its Oct. 10 digital release date: More »

2:25 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By mjohnston
3,324 views, 12 comments

Latest by brainchild: @Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: the beatles were never too fond of the Let It Be album thanks to Phil Spector, right? more »