The Gathering

"Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important — easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business — are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none."

The whole thing here http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0 ... 73,00.html

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Roger!

Verrry interesting... and yes, this sounds like a way of telling record labels "f*ck you, we don't need you anymore". If someone prefers to buy the CD instead of just downloading it (like myself, for example), there will necessarily be one or more middlemen but removing the record label from the whole process should definitely translate into a lower CD price. Let's see how this pans out...


NP: The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

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Playoffs? Don't talk about -- playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs??

Just listening to the new album .

I'm downloading it now and I'm already disappointed by one thing! mp3s 160 kbps! Sorry but this is rather a poor bit rate for now a days...

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

Can you please write me the link?

Thank you!

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...penso che
ho di nuovo i brividi
e mi lascio prendere
da domande inutili....
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BAUSTELLE

http://www.radiohead.com

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

I "bought" the CD today!

I LOVE it.. I paid 8 bucks for it..


But I hate what they did.. There should be something in between the 80 Dollars for the Box set and the "free" download... I'd have paid like 20 bucks for the CD... but I don't really want to pay 80 for the box right now.. First time I ever paid for a download.. (well, I made a donation when Anathema put "everything" on their website.. but that's different)

I really love the album too! I paid 7£ (about 10 €) for it.

I think I read somewhere that there will be a normal cd-version in the shops in January 2008. The discbox with the vinyls and the bonus disc etc will be out in December.

yeah I read also there will be a normal release of the album.. I guess time to find a distribution partner...

I like the album aswell, I choose to not pay for it since I didnt like the last Radiohead CD. And I'm glad I did NOT pay cause if I had paid for some 160 kbps mp3s, I would really have asked my money back... Sorry but nowadays 192 kbps is standard and is on the verge to be obsolete... I don't know how people use their 80 GB iPods, but I use the space to have some of my fave CDs as wav in there... And nothing under 192 kbps...

Ok sorry, bit off topic, but I had to get that out of chest... I think Radiohead is ripping off people who paid for this mp3s release...

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

For me the 160 kbps was not a problem. Personally I don't hear any difference between 160 or 192 or 256 kbps but I understand that there are many people who do and that's why it maybe should be a bit better. You can really pay a lot for the mp3's if you want to, and not just listen to them while you wait to get the discbox or the normal cd version. The mp3's should have the quality that you wouldn't need any "better" versions of the album.

At this point I don't think I buy any of the normal releases since the mp3's are good enough for me. I really like the album though and the collector in me maybe wants to have the discbox with the artwork, LP's and other extras . Radiohead is the band that I've listened to the longest time among the bands that I still listen to today and they are still getting better with each album.

The new album is kinda 'meh' for me, I like All I Need & Videotape but the rest didn't really grab me. Maybe I should give it a few more listens, who knows

What is "meh"?

what a sheep does when it opens its mouth to make sound

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

ok, thanks

I am not really impressed by the album. I like it, some track I like very much, but the overall feeling is "I don't know...".
But then again, the only albums I really adore are the first three, their b-sides and the My Iron Lung ep. From KID A on, I have everything but I rarely listen, as I find them good but a bit boring.

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I'm riding high upon a deep depression
I'm only happy when it rains
Pour your misery down on me

hummm, i think i agree with you, why paying for mediocre quality mp3s? that's the internet rules, if you download mp3 for free, you know there is better formats of the very same audio file, so that's why you buy the goddam cd, right?
in theory, is an interesting "f*ck the record labels" action, but i think the best way to do this, from the regular people side of the field, is downloading the album just for free.


and the album is ok, not meh. just have to listen it several times.

about internet release, the collaboration of Trent Reznor and Saul Williams will also be released via internet only:
you can get choose to download for free or pay $ 5,00.


I find this alternative to classic distribution channel way better.

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

some numbers here:
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1883

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Roger!

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I wonder how much the group has expanded their fan base by offering a "free" download of their album. How many people who'd never heard the band (or heard of the band) are now at least listening to them who never did before?This was a brilliant marketing ploy.

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bye...