posted on October 1st, 2007 in Best Practices, Monetizing, Music, News, Radiohead 

I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen…

It goes without saying the music industry proper sucks. Everyone knows it, it’s a cliché to even point it out. But occasionally something happens that’s worth getting excited about and this definitely qualifies.

Radiohead has decided to self-release their next album and allow fans to pay whatever they want for it. It think it is safe to say that they’re going to make a killing in both real and social capital (”Not that that’s why I did it…”, “No God forbid you should lose your standing as a cult failure…”,”You think I’m a failure George?”,“I will NOT get sucked into this conversation.”)

From Wiki: “The band are currently without a record contract, having fulfilled their six-album contract with EMI in 2004. In interviews in 2006, they admitted that “for the first time, we have no contract or release deadline to fulfill - it’s both liberating and terrifying”

Others Musicians have gone down the Internet-as-Road-Less-Traveled path but few have done so have been this big at the time of their “departure. “

Radiohead to give away new album - Telegraph
Radiohead, the internationally renowned band, has taken the unusual step of telling fans that they can pay as much or as little as they like for the band’s new album In Rainbows.

  by Joel on Oct. 2nd, 2007

Freakonomics folks wanna meet Radiohead.

Help him if you can:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/how-much-do-you-think-paul-feldman-will-pay-for-the-new-radiohead-album/