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Dub13
03-10-2007, 12:22 AM
I would love to see what people will end up paying for this....

British rockers Radiohead have shocked fans by announcing plans to release their long-awaited seventh album through their website.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood says the new LP, 'In Rainbows', will be available on October 11 - and the band is not setting a price to download the version, allowing fans to decide how much they pay for the release.
LOU2
03-10-2007, 07:52 AM
yeah saw that last night on the news the only thing is they said they will be bringing out a doublesided album or something in a month that will cost 40pound to either download or buy.
carragherisgod
03-10-2007, 09:14 AM
Kinda reminds me of what Prince does. He has allows his charter members of his website to download songs/albums for free but when he does a concert he adds an extra £10 to the ticket prices to pay for the free songs. Great idea.
Paul
03-10-2007, 10:10 AM
They should be paying us to download it, life is depressing enough without listening to radio head. :D
Pimboli
03-10-2007, 10:23 AM
I download all my stuff for free to put on the ipod. Havent actually bought a cd in about 18 months.
sean
03-10-2007, 10:31 AM
I download all my stuff for free to put on the ipod. Havent actually bought a cd in about 18 months.

tut tut, I thought you'd be much more honest than that mate :p
Pimboli
03-10-2007, 10:42 AM
tut tut, I thought you'd be much more honest than that mate :p

Nothing wrong with being honest, everyone does it, Im just pointing out 40p (their registration fee) for an entire album is a bit expensive :)
Trevinem
03-10-2007, 11:59 AM
id say very few people will pay for it when half the people with pc's these days download music for nothing!!
tomster
03-10-2007, 02:06 PM
i reckon, if music fans were given the choice, they'd pay *something* for music. At the moment music is far too expensive - also in some countries its far cheaper than in others, i think that's what gets a lot of people peeved. I reckon if albums were priced at between 5 and 10 euro a lot more people would buy them. Right??!!
Pimboli
03-10-2007, 02:33 PM
The cost of pressing a cd is something like 30 cent and including packaging around €1.

I read also that the net cost of a cd to shops is in the region of €7-€9 so when they so their 3 for €20/€25 they are still making money as they are usually promotions run by labels so get them in net for even less.

So next time you pick up your €19.99 cd remember where €19 of that is going €10 to the shop and the rest to the record company.

I also find torrent downloads actually better quality than the rips of cds that I used to upload into my i-tune playlist so I would never buy a cd now unless there is a free dvd with it or something.