Posted October 1, 200717 yr Radiohead allow fans to download new album for 1p 1 October, 2007 Source: MW By Adam Benzine Radiohead have begun accepting pre-orders from fans to download the band's new album - which is available in 10 days time - at whatever price they choose. Fans can pre-order Radiohead's seventh album, entitled In Rainbows, from the band's official website. The album is so far available in two formats - a £40 discbox, which contains two CDs, two 12-inch LPs, digital photographs and artwork in a hardback book and slipcase; and a download version of the album, for which fans can choose their own price. The new album will be available to download from October 10, while the discboxes will ship "on or before December 3". Visitors arriving at www.radiohead.com are being automatically re-directed to www.inrainbows.com, where a welcome page displays the message, "Radiohead have made a record. So far, it is only available from this website." The "so far" suggests that the band are still in negotiations with record labels for a larger physical release. CD 1 and vinyl 15 Step Bodysnatchers Nude Weird Fishes / Arpeggi All I Need Faust Arp Reckoner House Of Cards Jigsaw Falling Into Place Videotape CD 2 MK 1 Down Is The New Up Go Slowly MK 2 Last Flowers Up On The Ladder Bangers And Mash 4 Minute Warning
October 2, 200717 yr The Charlatans have followed suit. http://www.culturedeluxe.com/news_item.asp?id=2043
October 2, 200717 yr Well, I may well have to download this - although I hope it isn't too experimental..
October 2, 200717 yr Radiohead have changed the face of music now. If this all goes down as a success then lots of acts will follow suit. I think it's very good for the fans this way as it'll allow them to purchase the album now and then possibly sell out for the £40 version later.
October 2, 200717 yr I don't think it's a good idea tbh Less people will download the album because its only 'fans' who can buy it Edited October 2, 200717 yr by J♦Ñη¥
October 8, 200717 yr The Charlatans have followed suit. http://www.culturedeluxe.com/news_item.asp?id=2043 yeah but theres is only probs worth 1p, where thinking loads of dudes will pay £40 for the full radiohead package
October 8, 200717 yr I've pre-ordered it on download tonight. I'll probably still buy it on CD whenever it is physically released (rumoured for Jan 2008) anyway.
October 9, 200717 yr I think that this is truly fantastic actually... FINALLY, we're seeing bands take control of their destinies, Radiohead have ever been pioneers in a musical sense, but now they are leading the way for others to follow in how to get their music out there to the fans... I've paid them a tenner for the album, and am glad to do so in the knowlege that ALL the money is going to the band themselves, and not to some sodding retailer or record company.... This is the future of music, Death to the BPI, HMV and Virgin (ooops, sorry, meant to say "Zaavi" didnt I.....?) :cheer: :cheer:
October 9, 200717 yr How is this going to work? I don't like Radiohead's music myself, but just now out of interest I went throught the process of ordering the download for £0 - I don't why people will pay, if they can select it for free? I never download albums anyway - if I'm paying for an album I'd want the physical version in my hands. I wouldn't pay more than £0 for a downloaded album unless it was only available to download. However, at least I will probably listen to the Radiohead album this way. Maybe I'll like it, who knows. Then I suppose they have won, in the sense of getting a new fan who will pay for past and future albums (very unlikely to turn me into a fan though ;))!
October 10, 200717 yr It will work because bands see so little money from record sales. As Grimly said, most of the £7-10 you spend on an album goes to the retailer, distibutor, record company execs, hardly any to the actual band. By letting their music go free they're not actually losing out really, and there's the £40 boxset that they're selling which enough loons will buy anyway. Ridiculous. <_< As for the actual idea, it is a good one but only because it's Radiohead are people causing such a fuss. It's all 'isn't this such a genius idea? How original' and 'Aren't Radiohead great?' The Crimea did the same thing months ago yet no one gave a flying f*** in comparison. It's just one great big Radiohead love-in :puke2:
October 10, 200717 yr Errrr, what do you have to do to d/l the album for free then? Can someone talk me through the process [blushes with embarrassment]
October 11, 200717 yr As for the actual idea, it is a good one but only because it's Radiohead are people causing such a fuss. It's all 'isn't this such a genius idea? How original' and 'Aren't Radiohead great?' The Crimea did the same thing months ago yet no one gave a flying f*** in comparison. It's just one great big Radiohead love-in :puke2: Oh come on, you need a high profile act like Radiohead to actually take this leap in order to bring it to people's attention, and maybe other high profile acts will do the same.... Obviously they aint the first band to do it, if you wanna be really picky about it, probably the very first act to make music available down the internet was Future Sound of London, WAAAAAAY back in the mid-90s when they did their "ISDN" live gig down the actual ISDN cables and onto people's computers....
October 12, 200717 yr Rainbows beats iTunes teletext.co.uk Radiohead have admitted the download of their new album isn't full CD quality. Some fans had complained that In Rainbows' download rate of 160kbps meant the album sounded flat compared to a regular CD or vinyl. Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone: "We just wanted to make it a bit better than iTunes, which it is. That's good enough. It's never going to be CD quality, because that's what CD does." The band revealed they've taken over £2,000,000 in sales from just under 500,000 orders in it's first day equating to just over £4 per sale. How much did you pay for the downloaded copy of the album?
October 12, 200717 yr Oh come on, you need a high profile act like Radiohead to actually take this leap in order to bring it to people's attention, and maybe other high profile acts will do the same.... Obviously they aint the first band to do it, if you wanna be really picky about it, probably the very first act to make music available down the interned was Future Sound of London, WAAAAAAY back in the mid-90s when they did their "ISDN" live gig down the actual ISDN cables and onto people's computers.... Nah, you just need the media. Any band that gets bummed to death by radio 1, good or not, high profile or not could do it.
October 15, 200717 yr Rainbows beats iTunes teletext.co.uk Radiohead have admitted the download of their new album isn't full CD quality. Some fans had complained that In Rainbows' download rate of 160kbps meant the album sounded flat compared to a regular CD or vinyl. Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone: "We just wanted to make it a bit better than iTunes, which it is. That's good enough. It's never going to be CD quality, because that's what CD does." The band revealed they've taken over £2,000,000 in sales from just under 500,000 orders in it's first day equating to just over £4 per sale. How much did you pay for the downloaded copy of the album? Well, I paid a tenner, but at least I know the band got all the cash from it, so I've no issues with it tbh.... Quality sounds perfectly fine when I play it on my PC player (i've got a 5.1 speaker set up on my PC, it sounds fine to these ears.... ;) )or phone... Four quid per album sale doing it this way is four times what they'd get on a record label, where the average a band gets is £1 per CD sold.. iTunes are an even bigger rip-off..... I would say that this is a triumph for the band themselves and proof to every up-and-coming young act that you dont need a record label....
October 15, 200717 yr Nah, you just need the media. Any band that gets bummed to death by radio 1, good or not, high profile or not could do it. I find you attitude towards Radiohead a bit sad tbh, i mean, whether or not you like the music, they're one of the few bands out there who've never sold out, never turned into some godawful U2 or Coldplay style "stadium rock" band, they've maintained their artisitic integrity and have always sought to do something a bit different... They're a very far cry from all these lame-ass identikit NME fodder bands out there like Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, et al.... Okay, they may be media darlings or whatever, but they've never really gone out of their way to actually court media attention, in fact, they rarely even give interviews these days.
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