{"id":57,"date":"2007-10-15T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/63"},"modified":"2020-09-12T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:30:46","slug":"radioheads-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2007\/10\/radioheads-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be free; go see for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> sums up what’s happend so far. According to a survey taken of the people who’ve downloaded the new album, about a third paid nothing at all: $0.<\/p>\n

Some people make a big deal of that (like Fark’s headline, A third of the people offered Radiohead what their new album is worth: $0<\/a>), but they’re missing the big picture — if a third of downloaders got it for free, that means that *the other two thirds paid for it, even when they _could’ve got it for free_*.<\/p>\n

According to the survey, many paid more than $20, and the average price was $8 (I paid about $4, myself). Do the math — even with this survey not necessarily representing all people who downloaded the album, that means that at an average price of $8 times 2\/3 of a million downloaders (~8*666,000), that’s like…<\/p>\n

*5.3 MILLION DOLLARS*.<\/p>\n

And that’s money that’s going straight to the band. No middlemen, no greedy record executives to pay, no RIAA cartel to cozy up to — just straight hard cash going to Radiohead so that they can continue to make good music.<\/p>\n

What’s the downside of this type of purchasing system again?<\/p>\n

Nothing, from what I can see. Everything I’ve ever heard of seen tell me that bands make very little money off of album sales when they go through a major label and an organization like the RIAA — most of the money they make is through performances and band “stuff” (you know, t-shirts, autographs, and the like).<\/p>\n

And while $20-25 bucks (what you’ll pay in a store) for a new album is FAR too much if you ask me, paying the same amount to be 10-20 feet from my favorite band whilst screaming my head off along with thousands of other people? Now, _that’s_ worth $20. I’ve paid that amount before to see bands play in a venue (hell, I usually pay twice that), and I’ll continue to do so — but I haven’t paid for an CD in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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