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Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album
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).
Someitmes my friend, publicity is generated by talent.
Or, if you think that's an insulting word, publicity is generated by "what the majority of people likes".
Radiohead do make music I enjoy. I didn't give them a dime for their money because, let's face it, they're already sitting on a ton of money. But their fame was *not* entirely dependent on their publicist. You can publicize shit all you want, if people don't want it, they don't want it, period.