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Radiohead front-man Thom Yorke still isn’t saying much about how many people downloaded the band’s “In Rainbows” digital release — except to say that the group has done quite well by it, thanks very much — but what he will say is that the idea of a Web-only album is “stark raving mad,” according to [...]
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Not content with helping to destabilize the traditional record business, Radiohead has whipped up a widget featuring some of their videos, music and news (using Clearspring’s widget-making service). I’ve embedded it below, and you can click on the menu and get your own. According to Clearspring, almost 1,500 people have downloaded it. In other Radiohead [...]
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Andrew Keen, my favourite Web 2.0 iconoclast (which is Latin for “almost always wrong”), has a typically irascible blog post in response to a New York Times article on Radiohead over the weekend. Andrew’s point — stay with me here — is that by offering its own music through its own website directly to fans, [...]
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(This is cross-posted from my Globe and Mail blog) More than a month after Radiohead allowed users to download its latest album and pay whatever amount they wanted for it, debate continues about whether the move was just a stunt — one that only an established band with a dedicated fan base could pull off [...]
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A New Music Express piece on Radiohead brings with it a rather large knee to the goolies for comScore, which came out with some numbers on downloads of the band’s “pay what you want” album In Rainbows (I wrote about comScore’s results here). ComScore said that its survey showed less than 40 per cent paid [...]
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