Radiohead turn their backs on pay-as-you-like music downloads
When Radiohead released their latest album, In Rainbows, as a music download that you chose how much you paid for, the world’s media were quick to point out that this was about to revolutionize the music industry, from CD sales to filesharing networks.
Well, it looks like we might have all jumped the gun a bit. Thom Yorke has said this week that Radiohead will not be pulling another stunt like that again. Perhaps the fact that people paid, on average, just £2.87 for the album disappointed the band. Also, only 38% of people paid anything for it at all.
Radiohead’s actions were, apparently, a one-off that came in response to a particular situation.
Yorke said that he doesn’t think that doing it all again would have the same response.
It’s a shame really because it looks like this entire business model is a failure and the scores of bands who were lining up to follow suit may now change their minds.
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Free Music Download Websites 09May08
That sucks for them. Just the other day i was doing a search on yahoo for one of my keywords and i noticed their site on the first page. When i tried to go to their site the first thing i saw was “In Rainbows Is No Longer Available As A Download”. I guess we know why now