You fill in the blanks. Radiohead is offering its new album “In Rainbows” in a download format for whatever price you want to pay. It is available here:
Radiohead- In Rainbows Download
You have to set the price in Pounds, but there is a converter. The download includes the entire album, except for bonus material included in the discbox (selling for £40, or roughly $81). Regardless, since you set the price, it has to be worth it. Pitchfork has a great collection of videos of Radiohead performing these songs live:
Enjoy.
- Late note…THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING. I JUST LISTENED TO IT FROM START TO FINISH AND WAS BLOWN AWAY. GET IT NOW. NOW.
UPDATED: (cory) In case you’re not aware, Radiohead is just the first of a long line of artists giving it to the Recording Industry. So far, Trent Reznor has decided to go record label free (following rumors of Nine Inch Nails disbanding, as has Oasis, Jamiroquai and Madonna. Truth is though, Looper (Stuart David, co-creator of Belle & Sebastian) did this years ago with the release of the MP3 albums, which you can find here (amazing). These artists are realizing that the role of the stagnant recording industry has been marginalized by the advent of the internet, and the recording industry’s inability to keep the pace with the internet’s leveling effect. As long as net neutrality is maintained, the RIAA keeps up its dirty tactics, and Records labels take the sort of % cuts they do, they’re going to drive themselves into irrelevance. I say out with the old, and in with the new.
