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Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album

Posted by Zonk on from the generous-listeners dept.

mytrip passed us a link to a Wired article indcating that if music industry estimates are correct Radiohead has made as much as $10 million on the 'In Rainbows' album so far. This despite the estimates of widespread piracy of the album as well. "[The estimate assumes] that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead).

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  1. There is only one way to find out the truth. by Funkcikle · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you downloaded the Radiohead album please reply here and say how much you paid, so that we can send a bill for our rightful share to Radiohead.

    Sincerely yours,
    The RIAA

    1. Re:There is only one way to find out the truth. by Funkcikle · · Score: 4, Funny

      Negative one hundred and two million Euro. Now go get your share.
      Our accountants have put this into our Excel spreadsheet and apparently we are in for a LOT of money.
  2. Completely Irrelevant by Ambiguous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is all well and good, but it completely ignores the fact that if people are pirating music, the artists can't make any money!

    -G

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  3. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who the fuck is radiohead? Karma police, arrest this man.
  4. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by netsavior · · Score: 5, Funny

    what a Creep

  5. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who the fuck is radiohead?
    When I am King you will be first against the wall.

    Hang on a sec, that abbreviated would make a cool ID. I really should do that...
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  6. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by ilikejam · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long have you been waiting for that?

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  7. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by aleander · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. That would be RIAA trying to buy out all the copies.

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  8. Re:for the record by ucblockhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! I hadn't realized the IRS took over the UK!

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  9. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by p3d0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If one in 300 people in the US and England bought the album you would have at least that many sales. Or if half of the people in New York City under the age of 18 bought the album you would have that many. Right. And if just 1% of the cells in your body bought the album, well that would be 500 billion sales right there, so 1.2 million is no big deal.
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  10. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, when life throws you a soft pitch like that you don't just tap it for a single, you smack it out of the park.

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