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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
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?
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?
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I never said Radiohead claimed to have invented anything. I kind of agree with you in that point...
If it was a question of
coolness, are you implying Radiohead aren't doing anything
cool for their fans this time around by not following the same model?
dazedcola mentions financial failure as a reason for this, but it seems reasonable enough to think that they made money from the digital circulation of "In Rainbows". Surely some fans actually paid money for it. It can be said they avoided the so-called
leakage of the album by putting the mp3s on sale. Nine Inch Nails did something similar in terms of distributing their music, How To Destroy Angels are following the same steps, and this leads to believe that doing so would profit after all. Can you guys not think that the physical release of "In Rainbows" didn't sell so well due to the quality of the music it offered? Can we just blame the record industry, the methods of distribution, and assume some kind of blame as fans, while the band, in this case Radiohead, remains untouched?
I've been a fan of Radiohead for years, ever since a good friend of mine hooked me up with a copy of a bootleg called "Paragons of Virtue". I admit i lost a lot of interest in them after "Amnesiac". In fact i consider their last two records, especially "In Rainbows", to be awful. Still, hate is a strong word, i certainly don't hate them. I don't even feel apathy towards them. There's still some interest in them from my part, however brief.