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[geekchick]

I'm really loving the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows"; I'm on my second listen since downloading it about an hour and a half ago. Also, I love their "pay what you want for the download, anything from £0 to £100" approach; I paid £7 and some change, which works out to about $14 ($1.40 per song, and roughly what I'd expect to pay for a new CD), since this is the sort of thing I like to reward. When you have major labels claiming that simply ripping a copy of a CD you own so that you can listen to it on your iPod is stealing, I'm perfectly happy to fork over cash directly to artists instead of to the label. Some folks in the comments at Stereogum were saying they didn't pay anything for it because it's only encoded at 160 kbps, but that's perfectly acceptable for me given that I'm not particularly picky about the bit rate so long as it's at least 128.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

apparently people are "overpaying" for this album (ie. paying more than radiohead expected them to pay). i can't link to where that's from, the paramour told me while reading it somewhere (possibly on slashdot). i haven't bought it yet (but i will). i am not sure how much i'll pay; i am a little torn between "overpaying" to reward the effort, and paying what i realistically would pay if every musician did this.

but i found that interesting, especially in light of the RIAA and its ilk claiming we're all thieves anyway and take what we want if we can get it for free. which has never been true for me, but radiohead is showing that it's apparently not so for many, many other music fans.

the sooner we can shove it all up the major labels' arses, the better, IMO.

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[geekchick]

I read in some blurb somewhere that fans have discovered that the cart tops out at £99 or something like that, so clearly there's someone out there paying way more than you'd expect for an album. I freely admit however that I'm not prepared to reward them to the tune of $204 (given today's exchange rate). I paid more than I normally would for a download ($14-ish vs. $9.99), but in line with what I'd expect for a new CD. Thing is, I'm not even a huge Radiohead fan; I don't own any of their other albums. This one caught my attention though because of the distribution method, and they're getting money from me they might not have if it was released in the usual CD-from-EMI format.