more OR less - radiohead - ah ha ha ha!
turns out this"pay what you want for our album" thing was really just a marketing stunt after all.
What tards. This is classic. And I fell for it. Maybe I'm the tard!
Here's a band that totally does not need marketing trickery and yet - that's exactly what they did. I guess they really are old school.
The "In Rainbows" music will come out on CD - on a major label and contain the COMPLETE set of tracks.
Radiohead is calling them "bonus tracks" - but that's marketing BS.
It's pretty clear the 10 song download version of "In Rainbows" that created all the buzz was stripped of a few tracks. They were witheld - and will only be available on the CD version of "In Rainbows"
Fairly sleazy.
I feel like I just bought "clear coat" from that dude in "Fargo".
Whatever.
Had I known there were "extra special bonus tracks" before hand - I wouldn't have bought the download.
Here's a band with a reputation for putting out cohesive COLLECTIONS of music - not singles. And now we're expected to believe they just has some extra "bonus" tracks lying around?
Pfft
In the olden days fans were screwed. They had to take the pounding and could only complain to a few local friends and have virtually no impact.
But today there's a medium for people to express how lame they think this is. Will they? Who knows.
It got Apple to cough up $100 credits to those people who bought an iPhone for the original full price.
That would never have happened before instant personal publishing and interactive media.
I wasn't a radiohead fan before all this. Somehow they slipped by me. I hadn't paid attention.
So now they got my attention.
Good for them.
In Rainbows is interesting enough to me though that it has me intriqued about the rest of their music.
But after this little stunt - you can be pretty sure I won't be paying for any of it.
F' those guys.
,-)