anyone get the new Radiohead album yet?

[MrCoffee]

i'm dying to get off work and download it at home.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Yes, and it is excellent.

[MrCoffee]

2. i'm too excited to work

how much did you pay? i'm thinking 10 bucks.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I just torrented it because I'm utterly broke right now.

I am actually considering buying the box set when I can.

[MrCoffee]

5. coolio. it's one of those rare times when i'm flush, so

i figure i'll lay down some scratch for Thom and the boys. i'm sure they're hurting for it.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

7. I heard you could enter $0 and download it legally.

[MrCoffee]

9. that's true. you can enter "Zero" in the payment amount

and get the album for free.

[mark414]

22. i did, and downloaded it this morning

but then, i just started working last week for the first time in months so...i didn't have much of a choice

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Is it on their website?

[LaraMN]

4. Oooh! Thanks for the reminder!

:bounce:

[NightWatcher]

6. I'm trying, but so is most of Europe and America

I hope this works out well for them. I think that it should because there are thousands of us out here that are ready for a fresh approach to buying music.

[mainegreen]

10. At ten minutes a page load: no.

:shrug:

[NightWatcher]

13. maybe we'll have better luck once Europe falls asleep

[gmoney]

11. The page is http://www.inrainbows.com/

you need to go there to buy it for whatever price you decide... the radiohead site itself doesn't seem to be much help.

I feel obligated to mention that Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads song, not the other way around. ;)

[Greyskye]

27. That page currently brings up an authentication form...

...that requests a user name and a password.

Looks like they've locked it down to keep their servers from melting.

[kid a]

12. amazing!

[ok_cpu]

14. Trying right now

But the site is fried...

[Initech]

15. Downloaded it last night. It is fucking amazing.

Everything I had hoped for in a Radiohead disc.

[NightWatcher]

16. is it more like Amnesiac or OK Computer?

I cant get the damn page to load, argh

[Initech]

17. I'd say it's a cross between Kid A and The Bends.

[leftofthedial]

18. what will you pay?

[MrCoffee]

19. i'm thinking $10 (or the pound equivalent) is a fair price

but i have no idea...what are you paying?

[leftofthedial]

20. I'm not downloading it

because I have no money to spend on discretionary items. If I had money, this would not be in the top ten of CDs I'd download.

If I did download it, I'd also pay $10. My "fair" rate feels these days like a buck a song or a tenner for a CD.

[MrCoffee]

21. well, they are giving it away...

it's not stealing if they're giving it away.

[leftofthedial]

23. I think it's seriously cool that they are willing to try this approach

but as a professional songwriter, I see terrible trouble coming for music

[underpants]

24. It's Radiohead. It will be awesome and you will buy it.

:rofl:

I read that in a local humor/comment free paper yesterday.

[Greyskye]

25. I don't know Radiohead from Roxy Music

So at some point in the future, I'll probably download the album for free. If I really like it, I'll go buy some of their stuff. If not, I'll simply delete it.

Good for them, I hope this experiment works for them. :thumbsup:

[AnotherGreenWorld]

26. Roxy Music > Radiohead

[NightWatcher]

28. woo hoo, I finally was able to download it

I guess Europe finally went to sleep

[gmoney]

29. Yeah, me too...

still slow, but it went through... I'll listen after Sam Seder.

[NightWatcher]

30. I'll listen after the Bionic Woman

I'm podcasting Sammy

[mvd]

31. I did

I paid 3.50 pounds, which came to 3.95 with their processing charge. That's around $8.00, which I find to be a good price for an album download. $7.99 should be the price. I've only listened to In Rainbows once so far, but it is a very good Radiohead CD. While the first song, "15 step," sounds too much like Thom Yorke's The Eraser, the rest of the CD is experimental yet not as off the wall as Kid A. They come up with mystifying soundscapes.

[mvd]

32. BTW, what do people think of the sales method?

They say it's not a great audio quality (encoded at a bit rate of 160 kbps (kilobits per second)), and the physical CD will be released in January. It's obviously promotion for the CD, but I'm still glad they bypassed the labels.