Radiohead about to release new music  One of my favorite groups, Radiohead, have finished work on their latest music release, “in rainbows”. They recently finished their contract with EMI, which released 7 CDs. The group is now releasing their music only via their website. There are two options. One costs about $82 (£40), the Discbox, which includes 2 vinyl LPs, a CD, an enhanced CD, lyric booklets, and artwork all encased in a hardback book. The other option is to download the entire album. The interesting part is that there is no set fee; pay what you will. The Telegraph has a good article about the experiment entitled “What's at the end of Radiohead's Rainbows?”

Some of us are still fans of CDs that you can hold in your hand, copy to your computer, ipod, whatever, but still have that CD in your hand in case all the digits disappear. Purchasing a CD does not appear to be an option, at least not now. The temptation is to pay very little for the download and then, based on the “quality”, purchase the CD if that becomes available later. I'd like to give that feedback to the band but haven't yet figured out a method to do so. They do have a blog of sorts, Dead Air Space. The new album will be available for download on Oct. 10.
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:26 PM #