Interesting: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1003658357

I wonder if this is more of a plea than a bargain.

The means by which the labels and artists will try to shift music from here on will only get more ridiculous and desperate it seems. I imagine newly released cd's to be given away in packs of breakfast cereal would be the next logical step.

Now that would be funny. Get the entire Stooges catalog with your purchase of Barbara's Bakery Puffins® serial series!

"Now I wanna/Be your bran!"

you know all these blogs and people complaining that radiohead will just let a major release it in a few months- well, it's already out, everyone knows the songs, they know what it is about.

why would doing a proper release make all this mysterious money for Radiohead? Last time I looked people weren't necessarily buying "proper releases" (at least not in volumes that would make major labels coke-sniffing out-of-a-fruit-bowl circa 1985 rich)

I don't think there's some marketing ploy going on here. Radiohead has a web server. They have a shopping cart, you can buy the album for $0.00 downloaded from their webserver.

They aren't Madonna or Creed. I think this took balls.

It's very noble of them. The record's OK, not great. I'm enjoying it. It didn't hurt my wallet. It has a pretty good mood. Some of the songs sound like Fugazi parts played on acoustic guitars and in many ways it is more interesting than the Sea and Cake (which some of it sounds like too). I'm not complaining.

i've been listening to various radiohead tracks that i ripped from CD at both 192kbps with VBR and 320kbps.

i'm having a lot of trouble distinguishing between the two (bit rates) and i can distinguish vinyl from digital easily.

have any of you really given this a try?

on a side note: i've been enjoying this new radiohead more than the last three. it's a more solid album than them except for maybe kid a.

so anyone receive and play their radiohead disc box lp? i think it sounds phenomenal. the 2x12" @45rpm was a smart choice.

beautiful packaging as well.

I received the Disc Box a few weeks ago and immediately listened to the records - agreed on 2 45 rpm 12"s sounding great. The packaging is nice - just slightly too big to fit on my record shelves without placing it at a funny angle - but quite nice. The stuff on the bonus cd did not strike me immediately as anything of note.

I just saw this album on the shelves at Starbucks. Weird.

the box-set is beautiful. definitely worth spending 80 bucks and the long time waiting for it. I like the songs on the bonus CD very much.

enframed wrote:i'm having a lot of trouble distinguishing between the two (bit rates) and i can distinguish vinyl from digital easily.

I always wonder if the difference between cd and vinyl is caused by different masterings. I thought that Excellent Italian Greyhound sounds different on CD. I have lots of records on vinyl as well as on cd and I don't hear much of a difference in general (aside from the well known warm and punchy effect).