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Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

62 by hip priest_Archive
It's a marketing exercise.

Although the band have a new record ready to go, they don't have the funds to market it thoroughly and the band are reluctant to do the publicity thing. So, figuring that if they went with a traditional release the album would leak and everyone would download it fo free anyway, they decided to release it via download (essentially for nothing, they're not expecting to make any money) thus stirring up enough media interest to make people aware of its release, an added bonus being it adds to Radiohead's credibility as an industry shunning band. The idea of the pricey disc box is that it pays for the server and bandwith of the digital release, although they are yet to sort distribution. It's likely that they'll get an established online retailer to do it for them.

A traditional release will follow in January, probably through their own label via a distribution deal with a major.

Really not very punk rock at all, and actually rather boring.
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Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

63 by Minotaur029_Archive
hip priest wrote:So, figuring that if they went with a traditional release the album would leak and everyone would download it fo free anyway, they decided to release it via download (essentially for nothing, they're not expecting to make any money) thus stirring up enough media interest to make people aware of its release, an added bonus being it adds to Radiohead's credibility as an industry shunning band.


hip priest wrote:A traditional release will follow in January, probably through their own label via a distribution deal with a major.

Really not very punk rock at all, and actually rather boring.


Right. This is similar to what I said in my first curmudgeonly post (particularly the stuff in bold, but the wider quotes apply). Radiohead's "vision for the future" is mostly circumstantial. Let the fellatio of Radiohead continue!

This is the 2000s equivalent of Pearl Jam's release of Vs. (no videos!...no publicity!?...no band name on the cover?!? [originally no band name on the cover] why it's the anti-publicity publicity machine!!)...and is similar to Pearl Jam's switch from Epic to J Records (one label...under Sony...indivisible...)
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Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

64 by Earwicker_Archive
I think it takes a particular brand of cynicism to think that giving away your record for nothing is a bad thing.

I am reminded of the scene in Life of Brian where he is told that his denial is proof of his divinity (please don't read too much into that. I like Radiohead but not that much)

The Prince thing is not the same because he got paid by the Sunday Express - or whoever it was - to put out his album that way. He probably made more money than if he'd sold it the normal way - so i heard.

I don't know a whole lot about this 'corporate music machine' thing but it seems to me that Radiohead have never sold out in making anything other than the music they wanted to make. Kid A will have alienated a large chunk of their previous listenership but they wanted to go in a different direction and so went that way.

Sounds to me like there's some sour grapes at the bottom of this thread's bowl - but I wouldn't be surprised if i'm lambasted for suggesting so.

I wish more film makers would be adventurous once they'd 'made it'.
It forever surprises me that the likes of Spielberg could literally do anything they wanted yet they still choose to make the same old formulaic populist shite year after year.


ho hum

Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

66 by aew_Archive
Earwicker wrote:I think it takes a particular brand of cynicism to think that giving away your record for nothing is a bad thing.


Super agree.

I think just putting the idea out there is a great thing.
I don't know about anyone else, but I come from a totally non-musical background. I picked up the guitar at the age of 17, and only got serious(-ish) about music at 21. So i remember what it was like, having NO-CLUE as to how the record industry worked. I remember thinking that if you wanted to put out your music you HAD to sign with major. Sort of like a central government agency. kind of like the Land Registry Office

I can't remember how, but i found out about Rough Trade records, and i started reading around (I read half of All You Need to Know About the Music Business: by Donald S. Passman, before i felt too disappointed to go on).

I found this place, and started reading, and was surprise by the healthy odds for someone putting out their music independently. I just don't like the indie-lecturing the goes on, and getting hung up on tiny points, or outright making baseless complaints , oh until an older hipster steps in and scolds junior.

So yeah, this is great news for me. I like radiohead.

Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

67 by Skronk_Archive
So, an old dog, somewhat new tricks?

Billboard, the father of pitchfork, wrote:Radiohead Closing In On Deal For 'In Rainbows' CD

Radiohead
October 04, 2007, 6:55 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Radiohead is closing in on a deal for the physical release of its new album, "In Rainbows," sources tell Billboard. A band spokesperson said earlier this week that the album, which will be available for download Oct. 10 via Radiohead.com, would not be released widely on CD until 2008, but Billboard understands that timetable may move forward.

Radiohead.com is also offering a "discbox" with "In Rainbows" on CD and vinyl. The package will ship "on or before Dec. 3," according to the site.


ATO is seen as the front-runner and potentially most attractive home for Radiohead, who recorded for EMI until 2005, for numerous reasons. For one, Phil Costello, Capitol's former senior VP of promotion and marketing, is now at ATO.

Further, Red Light Management has just launched a new offshoot label, Side One Recordings, in conjunction with ATO (Red Light owner/founder Coran Capshaw is also a co-founder/co-owner of ATO). The label's first release is veteran U.K. electronica duo Underworld's "Oblivion With Bells," due Oct. 16.

Most ATO releases have been distributed in the U.S. by RCA, although some went through RED. The Nov. 13 release of David Gray's "Greatest Hits" will mark the debut release by ATO as a fully independent, RED-distributed label. Side One Recordings is also distributed by RED.

EMI is also angling to re-establish ties with Radiohead. The group's six studio albums for the company have sold a combined 8.5 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Another likely suitor is Warner Bros., which has been after Radiohead dating back to when the band was still affiliated with EMI. Perry Watts-Russell, who was senior VP of A&R at Capitol during Radiohead's tenure, is now in the same position at Warner Bros.

The company has lately enjoyed success distributing artist-run labels like Jack White's Third Man, to which the White Stripes are signed. The Stripes' latest album, "Icky Thump," has sold 603,000 copies.

There was some speculation Radiohead would not sign a new deal with a label at all, but group managers Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge told BBC Radio today (Oct. 4) that it was a necessary step.

"The band think they [are] incredibly proud of this record and feel that it deserves to be brought into the mass marketplace," Hufford said. "That's why we need a record company who have that infrastructure to deliver the CD."

An ATO/Red Light/Side One Recordings spokesperson declined to comment. Radiohead's publicist says the band has not yet made a decision on a label partner.


Damn. They know they could've done it without a label.

Here's the link.
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Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

68 by rayj_Archive
I could give two shits about Radiohead, but I think this is interesting in the sense that it will pave the way for a new way to release popular music. This new 'delivery system' will probably coincide with advances in all the new-fangled internet filtering/'security' that we will all be paying out the nose for in the near, near future.

Radiohead To Self-Release New Album

70 by sphincter_Archive
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Minotaur029 wrote:
The Minotaur wrote:...pissing people off blah blah blah


Which reminds me...lick my balls you inconsiderate little douche nozzle. I've noticed that you only seem to have a bunch of spiteful shit to say all the time...there was one particular instance on the Sendspace thread that pissed me off royally. I only just now got around to letting you know.

With love,
Dave Grohl

What is going on here? Are you replying to yourself, as Dave Grohl? Not even McGarvey has thought of that. Good move.

100% praise to the Radioheads for this move. It would be great if this started a trend. Kill the compact disc. Kill off CD retailers. Kill A&R departments, kill FM commercial radio, kill off the Jeff McLoskey's, kill off producers ( or 'engineers' ) who record music for the compact disc format. Kill off the trucks that deliver Amazon CD's to your front door. Kill off Thurston Moore and his Starbucks collection. No more plastic copies of digitizable music, only limited special editions or small run vinyl. Onto the web it goes. It's 2007. This revolution should have started in 2000 and finished two years ago.

With patience,

Dave Grohl


Not that you're implying this, but I assume that this won't be a limited run thing and as the boxsets will be made to order it will literally be a case of supplying to the demand. This is easily the best system for selling music-printing millions of CDs/LPs to sit on shelves in shops and get dusty is stupid as is the whole dicky culture of limited vinyl runs of 50 LPs so some fucking narky prick can sell it on ebay for some stupid price. Fuck Southern Lord.

Anyway, good one, this is how the world should work.

£40 though...that's a crazy thing.

Edit; I just read the rest of the thread. Gistes.
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