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Novi album dostupan od 10. Oktobra iskljucivo preko web-stranice benda.
Cijena albuma je ona koju vi odredite. A to moze biti i dzaba.
In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.
Radiohead's contract with EMI/Capitol expired after its last record, Hail to the Thief, was released in 2003; shortly before the band started writing new songs, singer Thom Yorke told TIME, "I like the people at our record company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say 'F___ you' to this decaying business model." On Sunday night, guitarist Jonny Greenwood took to Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog and nonchalantly announced, "Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days. We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all."
kompletan clanak: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0 ... 73,00.html
A press release from Nasty Little Man, PR firm for Radiohead:
There will be no advances, promotional copies, digital streams, media sites, etc. of RADIOHEAD's In Rainbows.
Everyone in the world will be getting the music at the same time: Oct. 10. That includes us. We don't have anything to play anyone in the nine days until the record is available. Everyone at nasty has
put his or her order in and just to clarify: you are not being asked to pay for a promo (as some have inquired). you can pay nothing or as much or as little as you want.
There will be no promotional copies of the discbox either, as each discbox is being made to order. Sorry.
Ja sam platio 1 funtu + 0.45 za transakciju. Ne znam nekako bih se osjećao krivim da nisam ništa platio. A svakako ću kupiti original kad se po najavama pojavi početkom sledeće godine. Ipak su ovo Radiohead.
Kontaju da malo naroda svakako kupi CD za ca.10-20 Eura ili Download koji je 1 Euro/pjesma, nego ga skinu djabe sa neta. Ovako sam odlucis koliko zelis da platis za 1 Digital album i te pare idu muzicarima direkt u djep.
Pa da se plati npr. 1-2 Eura za cijeli album to je muzicarima vise love nego sto se dobije od royalitija po prodanom albumu.
+ CD, LP izadnje par mjeseci kasnije za one koji to zele.
Pametan potez, a ovo je samo pocetak. Bice ovoga puno.
Sta sada Major diskografi misle o ovome novom sistemu "Ti odluci cijenu"?
Vrijeme će pokazati, ali čitajući komentare raznih muzičkih analitičara u poslednja dva dana ovo će svakako ostaviti nekog uticaja na način kako muzička industrija radi.
Najavljivana mogućnost skidanja novog albuma In Rainbows po proizvoljnoj cijeni stvorila je toliku navalu obožavatelja na službenu stranicu da na istu nije bilo moguće ući.
Službena stranica Radioheada opet je dostupna, nakon što su brojne predbilježbe za njihov sedmi studijski album In Rainbows u ponedjeljak uzrokovale rušenje stranice.
Bend je tada objavio da će njihov In Rainbows biti dostupan jedino downloadom preko stranice http://www.radiohead.com, a obožavateljima je ostavljena mogućnost predbilježbe za skidanje albuma po cijeni koju sami odrede ili discbox za 40 funti, koji uključuje 2 CD-a, dvije 12-inčne vinilke, fotografije i ilustracije te tvrdo ukoričene tekstove pjesama.
Glasnogovornik benda Murray Chalmers kaže da su svi problemi na web-starnici uklonjeni te da je većina uplatila prosječnu cijenu CD-a, dok je samo njih nekoliko uplatilo peni.
In Rainbows će za download biti dostupan od 10. listopada, dok će discbox biti na raspolaganju od 3. prosinca.