Radiohead has just announced that they will be releasing their new album in TEN DAYS!"In Rainbows" has been recorded by the band itself without the help of any record label. In doing this the band is allowing fans to download the album from their website for a price of their choosing. What? Yeah! You can choose the price you want to pay for downloading "In Rainbows". As you may have noticed i have only used the word download, this is because the discbox won't be available until December. Not a big deal really, we can wait as long as we have the actual songs.
Mind you, Radiohead isn't the first band to do something like this. Prince did a similar thing when he gave his CD, "Planet Earth", away for free in the british newspaper "The Mail on Sunday". The record, like Radiohead's, was also released on the artist's own record label, in Prince's case, "NPG Records". Most record labels reacted poorly to what would seem to be an act of harmless publicity. It's clear, though, that Prince was trying to make a statement, especially when you find out that the "NPG" stands for "New Power Generation".
Radiohead whether they like it, or not, are part of the "new power generation" of music distribution, and should be ready for some strong resentment coming from the direction of big record labels that depend on music stars like Radiohead. I for one am in total support of Radiohead's decision to have the buyer choose the price. I will be paying, $8.00, what I find to be a reasonable price for an album. Go visit "In Rainbow's" website, here, to make your bid.
Radiohead - In Rainbows Disc one tracklisting:
01 15 STEP
02 BODYSNATCHERS
03 NUDE
04 WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
05 ALL I NEED
06 FAUST ARP
07 RECKONER
08 HOUSE OF CARDS
09 JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
10 VIDEOTAPE
Radiohead - In Rainbows Disc two tracklisting:
01 MK 1
02 DOWN IS THE NEW UP
03 GO SLOWLY
04 MK 2
05 LAST FLOWERS
06 UP ON THE LADDER
07 BANGERS AND MASH
08 4 MINUTE WARNING
Here at Foeweel you'll be able to get the first four tracks live.
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