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Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie
By the way, what happened to the "pay what you want" model that they supposedly implemented (although i can think of some other bands that did pretty much the same thing in the past, but they did not get the cake)? Not that i really care, as it wouldn't suit the ways in which i consume music anyways, but i guess some people can share their thoughts on the subject either way (so far it seems like an untouched subject in this thread).
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Radiohead never claimed to invent giving out records for free, misguided hipster talking heads from the industry and the magazines said all that shit. Radiohead just wanted to do something cool for their fans, why are you hatin?
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Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie
Yes.
$9 USD, would suffice to buy "The Chocolate Cities" by Flower-Corsano Duo (random example) from certain online store, and probably having it delivered to my doorstep. The WAV file is even more expensive than some physical releases by other artists, that happen to include artwork, and a nice package. You have different kinds of standards, i guess.
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and the digital download price is the same as any other source, BN.com, Amazon, iTunes, BestBuy.com, etc etc etc its just that radiohead is offering it from their own server directly, skipping out those bogus record company/distributor vampires who rob us fans for decades of commercial music.. I applaud radiohead for having the balls to defy the commercial models, not entirely, but enough to have fun with it.
Didn't we have enough fun hating on good bands just because they are mainstream or popular with Nirvana, that we have to keep these hater torches burning into radiohead's second decade on the covers?Should radiohead suddenly start selling their records for half-price on the shelves too just to appease your sense of entitlement and unnecessarily crass scoffing?