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Originally Posted by dazedcola
Btw; i'm pretty sure they alluded to the whole pay what you want idea for in rainbows turned out to be a failure financially and thats why they're not doing it again. A noble experiment into retrospect
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I sort of agree with Kim's point on this - it's easy for Radiohead to do these kind of experiments, but it ends up making it harder for smaller bands. Cursory Googling suggests that Ok Computer alone sold 8.5m. It's easy to be noble if you can afford to throw away money.
I think Radiohead, since at least Ok Computer, have been financially very canny. They've managed to continue selling arse-loads while cutting back on heavy commercial presence. 'Enigma' and 'mystique' being bigger selling points than market saturation. If Radiohead say, or allude to the idea that In Rainbows lost money, I'd be very careful: they're discretely
very clever marketeers.
I don't particularly care about their records any more, but fair play to them for continuing to be Radiohead.