{"id":91,"date":"2007-10-18T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-10-18T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T21:57:17","slug":"radiohead-in-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/technology\/2007\/10\/radiohead-in-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead: In Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead seem to be the first large, mainstream band to release an album (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radiohead's_seventh_studio_album\">In Rainbows<\/a>) in a <a href=\"http:\/\/magnatune.com\">Magnatune<\/a>-esque way: in mp3, over the internet with a customer chosen variable price.<\/p>\n<p>With 1.2 million copies sold and an average price of about \u00c2\u00a34 (according to one <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article2633798.ece\">survey<\/a>) that has to be classed as a success. iTunes, with the majority of the music in DRM-format, has never appealed but if a model like this takes off then  it seems a lot of us (me included) will be buying music via the internet (in the meantime I buy most of my music on CD).<\/p>\n<p>If the model does take off then there will probably be alterations; I can&#8217;t see the big labels allowing a variable price that goes all the way to zero and the charts will have to adapt or die &#8211; as <a href=\"http:\/\/doctorvee.co.uk\/2007\/10\/15\/a-pot-of-gold-for-us-all-in-rainbows\/\">other people<\/a> have pointed out people have been talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/+charts\/artist\/\">last.fm chart<\/a>. I&#8217;m much more cheerful about the future of music distribution now than I was a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Enough about the distribution &#8211; what about the music? I have a few Radiohead albums &#8211; I tend to listen to them a lot when I first get them and then rarely play them later. It&#8217;s too early to tell whether that&#8217;ll happen to  this one but I think it won&#8217;t, I&#8217;ve listened to it a lot and it has really grown on me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.and if you want to support (in multiple senses of the word) a band that has been pioneering internet music (and you have recording equipment) then check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradsucks.net\/archives\/2007\/09\/27\/out-of-it-community-backup-vocals\/\">Brad&#8217;s request<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead seem to be the first large, mainstream band to release an album (In Rainbows) in a Magnatune-esque way: in mp3, over the internet with a customer chosen variable price. With 1.2 million copies sold and an average price of about \u00c2\u00a34 (according to one survey) that has to be classed as a success. iTunes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}