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EMI & Radiohead: "Sticking It" to The Fans?

Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Music Media, Musicians, Rock'n'Roll, technology, tagged , , , , on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday’s entry was about the news of a majority of fans deciding that the right price for Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want experiment was zero, although now the band is disputing those figures.
So, if zero is sublime for fans, what’s ridiculous? A poster to Wired’s Listening Post music blog the other day got it right: [...]

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Somewhere, At the End of "In Rainbows…."

Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Rock'n'Roll, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

….didn’t lie a pot of gold for Radiohead’s “pay what you like” strategy. Give them props for trying, but as Digital Music News reported yesterday, 62% of the downloaders of the English progrock band’s seventh album (only available via Radiohead’s website) paid nada for it.
Bubkus.
Zilch.
On the other hand, that means that 38% DID [...]

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The Madonna Model or the Radiohead Revolution?

Posted in Celebrities, Copyright, Digital Media, Jazz, Music Media, Music industry, Pop Music, Recording Industry, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

So Madonna has given Warner Brothers the boot in favor of concert promoter Live Nation, while at the same time Radiohead has devised a pay-what-you’d-like scheme for their latest self-produced, self-distributed release, thumbing their noses at long-time label EMI. All in the space of a few days. [...]

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