Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album

TechDirt is reporting that the band Radiohead has apparently chosen the path less traveled when it comes to the release of their new album. They are offering two very unique methods of purchase for their new music, the ability to name your own price for a digital download or the ability to purchase a special "discbox" which will contain the album on CD and vinyl in addition to a horde of goodies. Will be interesting to see how this new model works out for them and what it might do to more traditional methods.

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Wimps

[mmuskratt]

Ha! They have to put it on us to fix the price for them selling out...used to be that they could sign a fat contract to a record company for that.

So if social engineering works, who will pay the most for it? Who will pay the least?

That's great, but...

[markbt73]

...it's still Radiohead.

"This food is terrible." "Yeah, but the portions are HUGE!"

Re:Name my own price?

[wiggles]

That's about what it would take for me to pick up anything by Radiohead, so long as they didn't force me to listen to it.

Re:Jews will ruin it

[DXMikey]

Not that I should honor your remark by replying but WTF? I see you got fed on bullshit growing up. Hope you liked the taste.

1. I'm a Jew
2. I've moved away from downloading via torrent and/or emule to buying from the iTunes Store. I love the service and appreciate the fact that I can move my music in between 5 authorized machines. I have no feeling that I don't "own" my music and vids purchased there.
3. I'm finally going to be a proud Mac Owner as soon as my Apple Store card comes this week. Macbook, here I come! (non-sequiter but thought I'd throw it in).
4. I'm active in the local Jewish Community. Funny, I've never been invited to one of those meetings where we supposedly plot to overthrow the world or ruin some other country's economy. You should visit Israel sometime. The streets there are rather decidely NOT paved with gold.
5. On the other hand you run into assholes everywhere. Some of them are at Synagogue - some of 'em here on Slashdot. In fact, I seem to be addressing one right now.
6. So...if you have 10 dishonest used car salesmen and 9 of 'em are WASPs and one is a Jew, I take it your attitude is, "9 of 'em screwed ya, one of 'em Jew-ed ya", yes?
7. Fuck you.

Re:What a load of wank

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Right, I'm pretentious because I claim that MP3s are an inferior format. I don't know what kind of weird jealousy or other emotions lead to you becoming hostile because I say that MP3 isn't as good as lossless, high dynamic range is better than next to no dynamic range, and unclipped is better than clipped, but I have a hunch that it's the fact that you don't hear any difference. Well, to make you feel better, I'm sure that you could hear the difference if you knew what to listen for and listened for it. In fact, you can even say that it's your choice to not listen for it, and try to turn that into some justification for why you're better than me instead of arguing the merits of a given distribution method or format.

Sure, I'm the troll, I'm the pretentious one, and the guy that turns his inability to take any criticism of his preferred format into a personal attack on me, yeah, he's the insightful one. This is ridiculous. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills that on Slashdot, of all fucking places, I'm being basically mobbed for not falling for bullshit, preferring the objectively better format, and yes, maybe being a little pretentious.

Re:$80 for a CD and vinyl?

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Or, instead of (or perhaps in addition to) being a dick, it's the fact that I can get a higher quality rip for less than $80, and they don't give me an option to not get a bunch of junk that I don't want but pay more for decent quality.

Re:$80 for a CD and vinyl?

[19thNervousBreakdown]

What? The fact that I don't like the production of current music, can't stand Mars Volta, never heard of Animal Collective, and am asking them to return to the production values they had when some of my favorite bands--The Beatles, The Who, Black Sabbath--were around, and fight that trend in whatever little way I can whenever I can, that's why music is the way it is today?

Also, I don't care that the music is good? You don't know what you're talking about. I listen through that, but I listen to the crap production value stuff the same way everybody else does: either for a short duration, at low volume, or drunk. It affects everybody else the same way, the only difference is that I know why we listen to music that way now. And I have absolutely no problem with music being like Radiohead, they're one of the best bands in existence right now. Maybe that's not saying a whole lot these days, but they ain't bad by any stretch of the imagination.