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Originally Posted by Got Miikka?
I had a feeling I'd need to clarify. Radiohead has made it clear for years now that they are dissatisfied with the current record-releasing system - labels and album formats themselves specifically.
I love the concept they came up with for this latest record and good for them that they get to keep all the proceeds; no more deserving band on the planet I say. By "backfire" I meant that it is unfortunate certain record execs/industry types try to misconstrue the fact that some people didn't pay for it up front as some kind of freeloading.
I didn't drop a cent on the download because I have every intention of buying the hard-copy when it becomes available. I am by no means a freeloader in this case, but it is easy to see how that could be assumed.
It's just sad: what Radiohead has done is really quite revolutionary, but you can interpret statistics however you want and it appears certain people are reading it the wrong way. Which is too bad.
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Cool, I thought you meant that they failed, but yeah your right the record industry just misconstrued it and made it look like it didn't go as well. Unfortunately it's a little bit to be expected as I'm sure they are scared that alot of the bigger selling bands are going to start doing this. Could you imagine a band/singer that normally sells around 15 million records or whatever a super high amount is (I checked good highest selling ever is the Eagles Greatest Hits at 28million.) and said Artist just gives the album away for nothing wow the industry would be in serious trouble if that started happening.