Correction
In fact, the minimum payment to download the In Rainbows album was 0p, not 1p, and in this case the processing charge did not apply.
Radiohead goes out on a limb with 'newspaper album'
Radiohead have declared their new album The King Of Limbs will be available for fans to download for between £6 and £9 depending on the format from Saturday 19 February. Separately, the Oxford group, whose last studio effort In Rainbows was released in 2007, will spin out what Radiohead have described as a "newspaper album". …
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:03 GMT lglethal
Umm you should read the press release better Kelly
If you had read the press release you would have seen that the box set comes with the online download so No, it is not asking fans to pay twice, the cost of the digital download is included in the box set. Which means that your actually only paying approx 24 pound for the vinyls, physical CD and a big book of Radiohead art. Personally thats a price im willing to pay...
Oh and im not quite sure how you can class 320k MP3's as crappy. If you can tell the difference between 320k mp3 and wav you either own a €100,000 audio setup or your talking bollocks...
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Umm you should have paid more attention in your maths (and english) lessons
"it is not asking fans to pay twice"
"your [sic] actually only paying approx 24 pound for the vinyls, physical CD and a big book of Radiohead art"
I may be wrong, but paying £24 for the CD etc. without the downloads isn't an option.
So by your logic you are paying £24 for a CD, some obsolete bits of vinyl and a book, plus £6 for a download. I think that might be interpreted as 'asking fans to pay twice'.
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Monday 14th February 2011 14:23 GMT Kelly Fiveash
Re: Umm you should have paid more attention in your maths (and english) lessons
As my story makes clear, Radiohead are indeed asking fans to pay twice. First for the digital format, and second for the 'physical' version. But yes, if a fan buys the .wav or .mp3 formats first, they obviously won't be paying for the digital download twice when they lay out cash for the 'newspaper album', so that charge is rightly trimmed off the 30 quid price tag. However, they will still be paying for another format, which is a classic biz model employed by big name record companies since (disc spinning) time begun.
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:08 GMT Jack 12
Second Correction
They are not trying to get you to pay twice for the same album, you can order the "newspaper" format at £30 for the physical + MP3, or £33 for the physical + WAV, you don't have to spend your £6 or £9 immediately to get the digital files and then another £30 on top of that for the vinyls and CD.
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:20 GMT Vladimir Plouzhnikov
I'm getting seriously confused
You get a CD and for extra £3.- you get to D/L a WAV (presumably LPCM) but the LPCM stream is already on the CD in the first place and it will take less time and effort to copy it from the CD with your favorite ripper than to download...
On the other hand if you don't pay the extra £3.- you have the right to D/L an MP3 and the LPCM stream on the CD, so by paying less you are getting an extra (though pretty worthless, as you can just as easily make your own MP3 from the CD but, hey, someone's already done it for you, so why not?) "product".
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:33 GMT Jack 12
Hopefully to de-confuse
It will take less time and effort to copy from CD than to download, but you get to download it on Saturday whereas the physical format is shipped in May sometime, so unless you have the world's worst internet connection, it makes much more sense to download. Not that i think the extra £3 is worth it for the WAV upfront because as you say, the LPCM stream will be on the CD.
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Monday 21st February 2011 14:02 GMT Willington
Re: (untitled) - Mechman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_By_Little
It's interesting that one of the tracks on The King of Limbs is called "Little by Little".
I think the "experimental" tag comes from their music rather than any gimmicks, after all, people have been giving music away for years before there was any such thing as torrents. Remember Komakino by Joy Division?
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Monday 14th February 2011 13:08 GMT Jord
Newspaper Album
May be a reference to a joke made by Jimmy Carr, something along the lines of Radiohead planning to give away their next album with the Mail on Sunday (I think this was a twatter comment).
£30 may sound a lot, but as it's been over 3 years since the last one, and considering all you get (2 clear vinyl records, CD, digital download, large artwork and 625 pieces of 'tiny' artwork), I think it's well worth it.
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Monday 14th February 2011 15:55 GMT Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
@ mp3 = 320kps?
The fact that it sounded shite was nothing to do with it being encoded at just 160Kps.
It sounded shite because the whole album was nothing more than the sound of a once great band running out of ideas and crawling slowly up their own backsides. I did download it, and I paid a good sum for it too. It's just a shame that they refused to offer me my money back when I offered to upload it back to their servers.
No offence you Radiohead drones. It's just my personal opinion. It's always interesting to see what Radiohead are doing, but in reality they've done nothing decent since Kid A.
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Monday 14th February 2011 21:52 GMT Stevie
Bah!
Clear vinyl? A sad mistake.
Faust tried this gimmick back in the early seventies. The Polydor achieved the effect by omitting the black "filler" from the standard formula according to the press releases of the time. The only problem was that the resulting clear vinyl was very much softer as a result and the pressings wore out very quickly and scratched easily too, a problem because the transparent sleeve and lyric sheet the album came with were made of plastic and tended to scratch the album whenever the chance presented itself. .
Within a couple of years Polydor was putting out the disc as a regular black record in a white card sleeve with a paper lyric sheet.
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