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This is interesting. I certainly admire their guts about standing up to the record company and doing things their way.
That said, I'm not a big fan of downloading music. I prefer to have my master copy that I can go back to at any time. Call me silly, but having everything on a harddrive is scary to me. I will most likely download a copy, but I'm going to lowball them on the cost because without a master copy, the value goes down rapidly for me. I would love to indulge in the full set, but $80 is a bit extreme for me.
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Re: Radiohead- Choose your own price.
I wish I could "choose" to pay $15 for an actual CD instead.
Given the choice between paying $1 (the approximate minimum price of the download) for a download and $82 for a physical copy of the CDs (paired with a vinyl copy I have no interest in) I'll choose to not get the new Radiohead album.
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i don't get it, they are actually charging $82?
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I don't see any mention of what the format is. Wav? MP3? What bit rate?
If it's not worth waiting until the last minute to do, then it's not worth doing.
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...but the problems is that they are not offering an equal solution. It's either download a mystery bit-rate file for whatever you want to pay, or buy the album in a traditional format with a butt-load of extras (That most people don't need) for an inflated price.
I don't really want either. I want a CD that I can pay $10 for.
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I might bite on the download since I'm a fan and I typically rip my cds anyways for listening on my mp3 player. I would of preferred though, that they did what the Flaming Lips did with their concert DVD "UFOs At The Zoo" that included the MP3s on the disc, you just had to put it in your PC.
So I'm basically saying I would of preferred the new Radiohead to be a DVD release.
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| It's coming out in stores in January. |
Where did you hear this? I have seen nothing concrete on this. If so, I download for super-cheap and then pick up the CD in January.
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The first person to get a jury trial for file-sharing just lost her case and was ordered to pay $220,000 to six record companies for sharing 24 (!) songs. Most likely $0 of that will end up in the hands of the artists whose work she allegedly shared.
Is the eventual CD release coming via a major label? If so, then the band would probably end up with more money from you paying them $3 directly for a download than from you buying the CD in a store for $15.
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I read somewhere that they recorded this album without a label. The guitarist (can't remember his name was quoted saying "it's a relief to finish this, now we have to figure out what to do with it." or some such thing. This is a pretty neat alternative. In the same article they had a bit about how Trent Rezner said he wont re-sign when his label commitments are up, that he well exclusively sell his music online.
So this could be the start of the big shift that people have thought was going to happen. I'm all for it. The labels tend to tinker with and sit on great music due to it not being commercial enough. Neil Young, Fionna Apple and Aimee Mann (and many others I'm sure) have all had major issues with there labels in the past. It makes me wonder pretty much every time what an album was intended to sound like. Cutting out the middle man could result in great music.
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You don't have to pay the processing fee if you put "0.0" in for your price. It's only added on when money is involved so presumably if you wanted to pay a penny for it you'd have to pay the additional processing fee.
I don't feel bad about not paying for it. They'll get my money when I can go into a store and buy the CD, and I don't pay for all the CDs I rip onto iTunes.
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The emails have gone out. I already listened to the whole thing and the email had been in my spam folder for about an hour at least so it's been available for a while by this point.
If you don't have yours check your spam filters.
Don't you ever, EVER compare me to "Family Guy," you hear me Kyle? Compare me to "Family Guy" again and so help me, I will kill you where you stand!
Do you have any idea what it's like? Everywhere I go: "Hey Cartman you must like 'Family Guy,' right?" "Hey, your sense of humor reminds me of 'Family...
In the case of this album, I have no problem with waiting until it's released to stores.
