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To be honest, I probably buy less music than the average person. Part of that is because I think too much of the money goes to the labels. But when Radiohead released "In Rainbows" for a pay-what-you-want download, I gladly forked over a large wad of paypal cash to support them directly. I did the same when Nine Inch Nails released "ghosts I-IV" and Saul Williams released "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust" for $5 mp3/flac downloads. I have also bought concert tickets to all of them. If more artists would cut out the rich middle man, I would be more willing to fork over some cash, and probably be a lot more broke.

But until the record companies stop being so greedy, as Trent Reznor said, "STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these mother****ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right."

I seriously doubt that's the case with Radiohead, at least. Apart from anything else they haven't bothered to get a new deal since their original early 90s EMI deal ended. They've also put up a fair bit of material (music and video) for download, and their website includes the interesting disclaimer "Don't copy if you do it for profit" -- not exactly "home taping is killing music",..

You see this page when you leave their labyrinth-like site

You see this page when you leave their labyrinth-like site

Looks a bit like the world's most disturbing website, Superbad.

Sorta reminds me of Radiohead's equally strange website.

Radiohead has helped me get through more programming and other projects than any other band. When I listen to music, it keeps the 'distracted' part of my mind occupied, while focus on the important projects. Find bands that you can listen to over and over and over and over and over and still enjoy and you should be well on your way to bliss. But at the same time, that doesn't work for reading books. But it works wonders for programming :) Radiohead ROCKS!

I was a little disturbed when this article stated that "Major acts like Radiohead have flatly refused to make their music available online." This was very much contrary to everything I knew about Radiohead. I decided to pay their web site a visit just to check. Sure enough, while their site does not contain MP3s of actual album songs, they have several music videos and dozens of bootleg mp3s. I've always thought of Radiohead of the kind of band that thinks it's really cool when they do a show and the audience already knows the words to their unreleased songs. Everything I've read suggests that they are one of the few bands that have fully embraced the online music trading trend.

Thoughtcrime Police
Arrest this man, He's not a drone
He's thinking what he wants
He's like an individual.

Thoughtcrime police
Arrest this girl, Her head's not ours
Her mind is on the loose
She found the truth about our rule

With apoligies to Radiohead.

Ali

The point is, it's not just new artists targetted at the 18-25 market...all of music is sucking ass lately.

Some of my current faves (from a bunch of different genres) include:

• As someone else mentioned, Radiohead is simply phenomenal
• Sigur Rós
• Death Cab For Cutie
• Godspeed You Black Emperor!
• Pedro the Lion
• American Analog Set
• Dashboard Confessional
• Toad the Wet Sprocket
• Further Seems Forever
• In more of the singer/songwriter style, there's Glen Phillips and Matt Nathanson

it's just going to take time before people stop thinking of computers as one of two things (either BUSINESS USE or PLAY THING). take the new album art by radiohead, for example. it's the same guy who did both Kid A and Amnesiac, and it's unquestionably digital. it's also a very strong example of artwork, creative expression, and form.

by the way, if you're in a conversation with an art snob, bring up the tasty little bit about "form defines content". this includes the media used. talk more about the form of the work, and less about the computer part of it. it's art first, media second, isn't it?

Wow, you went through the same thing in childhood as Thom Yorke, although IIRC his eyepatch was to correct for a lazy eye. He claims wearing it fucked him up for life, which I guess is where all that great music comes from.

After they get these in place, they'll have a means whereas patrol cars can stop your car remotely in any instance. Will bring a new meaning to "fascist state"

They said similar stuff about traffic lights and seat belts.

the glory of martyrdom is little comfort to the martyr, and that all the right-wing anti-government gun heroes are dead?
randy weaver, waco, etc.

who operated the weapons that killed them?
the United States Government.

did the poor innocent childlike civilians have weapons to defend themselves from the Big Bad Fedril Guvmint?
yes; in fact, they had more weapons than people to aim them.

despite large stockpiles of munitions, are they not still just as dead?
yes, they are irrevocably gone bye-bye.

technology has moved on, my friend. George Washington & Co. may have been able to use their one-shot rifles to scare off the Redcoats, but you modern folks don't have a chance. if the U.S. government ever really becomes so evil that they begin to mass murder their own people (again, remember Waco?) there will be nothing you can do against tanks, laser/heat guided missiles, and a satellite grid that can read the list of cities on your ok computer concert tee-shirt.

it's over.
you lost.
you're already dead.
now either put your "freedom fighting" where your mouth is and go shoot some "guvmint baddies" or get over it and spare us your whining.

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Radiohead... Thom does his own web-site (www.radiohead.com).

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We should not fear the future. I reassert to the worried that everything will be ok.