QotD: Radiohead, In Rainbows

Oct 10, 2007 at 10:00 AM
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Radiohead release their seventh studio album today and it's only available online and you set your own price. Will you buy the album? Do you buy the idea?

I even bought the album... We don't need majors anymore (do we?), we still need internet medium for new music discovery, but in this case buying straight from the artists is what made the more sense to me (I think, I had no other choice, anyway !)

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But for a new band with no name recognition, would you still pay?

If a no-name band marketed their album like Radiohead did, no way (the whole thing seemed sketchy, even for Radiohead). If they put up a decent website, with samples, free tracks to download to listen to, etc, definitely (assuming I liked their music).

Of course, for a no-name new band I'd need to listen first (I pre-ordered in-rainbows). This is where discovery plateforms make a lot of sense.

Right on! Yeah, buying directly from the musicians is definitely the way to go, rather than supporting the greedy fat cats in the record companies. In the last ten years probably 95% of the music I've bought has been from the band's CD table at their show, or something similar (one exception being an impulse buy at the counter at Starbucks). That way you know the money is going directly into their pockets.

I've been meaning to write a post about that with some samples, maybe I'll finally get around to it.

As far as hearing the music first, in the old days we used to have a thing called "radio" where you could hear new and interesting music before you bought it. Now that Viacom owns all the stations that's not going to happen.

Sure, but I cannot stand the radio anymore: too much talking, too much ads.

I didn't say there is NO good radio, you can probably find some with less intrusive ads and long listening period too.

When I listen radio, I'm also searching for a skip button (like pandora I guess)

And for people with no Internet connection ? Does it mean no RadioHead's new album at all ?

Maybe, but I don't feel concerned that much :)

QotD: Radiohead, In Rainbows

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