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[Casey]

So apparently Radiohead's album is coming out in 10 days.

http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex.html

I guess they decided to not go with any label at all (they were recently released from their contract with Capitol) If you pick the download version you can choose to pay whatever price you want-- people have reported typing in 0 GBP, so it looks like you can get it for free if you wish.

As the kind of person who likes having a physical copy, I'm kind of pissed that the only version is currently a two-CD, two-vinyl box that costs over 80 USD. I'm not paying that much when people like Jason Molina release a record and a CD of the same album together for $14-- The most I would consider paying for the Radiohead album would be $30, I guess, but even then I'd be grumbling about it.

Still, I'm excited. I'm going to go ahead and preorder the download for 0.00 and hope that they release a regular CD at some point in the future, because I think this is a pretty retarded move. I don't know if they're trying to prove that people will still pay money and blah blah blah but I'd be interested to hear what the average price people type in is, and how many 0s there were.

[Justin]

Well, when you consider that Bomb the Music Industry! and Harvey Danger have had pretty decent success with donation-based Internet releases, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Radiohead does very well with this. It won't be record-shattering or anything, but I think you're underestimating how generous people can be when they're not being forced into paying for something. And realistically, $5 donated to a self-released album gets more money to the artist than $15 in a record store.

[Daniel]

i'm gonna do $5

[Maynard,]

A note: Casey's link works, but the link on that site doesn't anymore. They've been changing it occasionally probably due to server overload. The current link is http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex3.html If that doesn't work, try ...Quickindex4.html or ...Quickindex5.html, etc. I am personally purchasing the actual album because I am a nerd.

By the way, YYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! and thanks Casey.

[Casey]

You're going to spend 40 quid on roughly two hours' worth of music? you don't even get a celestial map and a medallion

[Maynard,]

I love Radiohead. I like to have an actual disc. I'd prefer to have the artwork because Stanley Donwood is great. I enjoy collecting records. This is probably the only band on which I would spend this kind of money.

Also, they have fixed the link on the frontpage now.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I was gonna actually buy their next album, because apart from Muse they're the only band I like enough to actually spend money on, but if it's gonna be in digital format anyway I may as well use Limewire.

[Casey]

CRISIS AVERTED:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... lar-cd-too

I'll get the "official leak" for free and pay them when they release the regularly priced CD.

CHS: uh... why go to Limewire if you can get the digital version from the official source for free?

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I'd been under the impression that you'd still have to pay a small amount for a transfer fee,

Upon purchase, the buyer is prompted to type their desired price (plus a transaction fee of 45 pence if purchased for more than £0.00), with the explanation "It's up to you. No really, it's up to you."

but now I see that I misread it.

In any case, I'll still be using Limewire if the site shits itself after the millions of hits it gets on October 10. Which it almost certainly will.

[webber]

And you think that people are going to pay you $4.50 even though they don't have to? Just out of the goodness of their... [laughs] Well, anything you say! Good luck, lady, you're gonna need it!

[Captain Hot Stuff]

I just registered and noticed that you have to provide a mobile phone number. It would be hilarious if Thom Yorke personally called every person who payed $0.00 and demanded to know why.

[Mike]

Because music belongs to everybody, man.

[DGMacphee]

I'm paying nothing and if the album is good, I'll re-register and pay what I usually pay for CDs (around $30).

I'm a Radiohead fan so I doubt I'll be disappointed though.

[Randy Jones]

what I usually pay for CDs (around $30).

you know they're making CDs out of plastic these days

[DGMacphee]

Yes, they most certainly do. There's also this band called Radiohead who are offering a download of their music for nothing. And if the music is any good, I will offer to pay them the equivalent of the usual price of a normal music CD made from plastic in Australian dollars, which is around twenty-five to thirty Australian dollars. It kinda makes plastic CDs somewhat redundant in this process, except as a gauge to value their music.

Who knows? If I'm totally blown away by this album, I might pay more.

[James]

Because music belongs to everybody, man.

if i were a better artist or animator i would draw or paint or animate a scene of a man sitting on a stump in a grassy field playing a guitar and the air fills with musical notes and the man is startled as they start to float away and he gets up and grasps at them but they slip between his fingers and are forever lost

i'd also draw the man wearing a black cowboy hat

[Casey]

when does Goku show up and shout "NINE THOUSAND" or whatever

[Alan]

first of all it's vegeta who says it casey and he doesn't appear to be in this movie

[James]

he drives in on a segway and then we cut to the next part of the film

[Captain Hot Stuff]

Halfway through the first song. So far so good.