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New Radiohead Out October 10!

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By: Charbarred | in: Music |

Radiohead

In an unprecedented stunt Radiohead are set to change the rules of the music industry.

It was announced that their new album called ‘Rainbows’ is finished and is available for download starting the 10th of October from their website. The album comes in 2 flavours. The digital version does not have a set price. You may specify how much you’re willing to pay and pre-order it right now. That’s right, you pay as much as you want.

The physical version will only be available of the 3rd of December and will consist of many goodies. Apart for the CD, you will get 2 vinyl versions of the album, along with a bonus CD with extra songs. Radiohead will also throw in a hardback book, photographs, lyrics and artwork. The catch? It costs £40 which translates to around 80 bucks.

Radiohead - Rainbows

If you’re thinking “hmm, the MP3’s are going to be all over the net in 10 days” you may be right. I urge you to buy the album though, and take part in changing the way albums are being sold. Radiohead have chosen not to sign with a record label, and are in fact the biggest unsigned band in the world. This means that if this experiment succeeds, other bands may join in on the fun and bring down record prices. If artists don’t have to pay the premium labels are demanding nowadays (which can come up to 80% of the revenue), they can afford to keep the costs down while giving you the fan great music for cheap that also doesn’t finance evil cartels like the RIAA.

Mine’s already on order for the price of an average record on Amazon. Go get it!

Track listing:

CD 1

01 15 Step
02 Bodysnatchers
03 Nude
04 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
05 All I Need
06 Faust Arp
07 Reckoner
08 House Of Cards
09 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
10 Videotape

CD 2

01 Mk 1
02 Down Is The New Up
03 Go Slowly
04 Mk 2
05 Last Flowers
06 Up On The Ladder
07 Bangers And Mash
08 4 Minute Warning


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Posted on October 1, 2007

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7 Responses to “New Radiohead Out October 10!”

  1. Blog Feeds about Music » Archive » New Radiohead Out October 10! on October 1st, 2007 3:18 am

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  3. RustyCat on October 11th, 2007 12:43 am

    Let’s be honest, how much did you pay to get the new album? I paid 4 pounds (8$)


  4. Charbarred on October 11th, 2007 12:44 am

    I paid 10 pounds for the last album so I decided to pay the same for this one…I feel like I should have gone for a bit less, but at least I get to support one of my favorite bands.


  5. Mozzer on October 11th, 2007 12:44 am

    I’m a casual fan so I was thinking about paying $5 (2.4 pounds), which now seems ridiculously low. Great concept, though. I hope it’s successful.


  6. Baron on October 11th, 2007 12:45 am

    This only reinforces how much clueless executives are screwing the music biz. More broadband, more harddrive, more CPU power and movies are going to be next. Imagine all these media files taking as much space (relatively) as pictures do today. Too bad we can’t give these executives the salary we think they’re worth (a middle finger from most).


  7. Rockness Monster on October 11th, 2007 12:45 am

    their site is gonna blow up! literally


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