Radiohead - The King of Limbs

And so the laughable bullshit begins...

coincidentally enough, this album is completely comprised of bathory covers!

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 February 2011 13:39 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

Under the Sign of the Thom Yorke

I'm excited it's a return to form after the disappointing In Rainbows!

:P

Exciting news for an otherwise blah Monday, but I'm wishing there was some sort of in-between option that is more than just the downloads and less than super-duper deluxe expensive boxset.

Well, if they are going to do it this way, I miss an option a la "In Rainbows" to pay zilch for the downloads and then full prize for the CD when it appears. I did it then, and I also know many others did.

i suspect you'll be able to buy a normal CD of it in the store eventually

Can't say that I'm all that excited about this. $48 seems too steep for me. I'll wait for the 12" when it's only $15.

The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

i suspect you'll be able to buy a normal CD of it in the store eventually

Yeah, but that also means that I'd have to wait until the end of March to hear it when the album has already been discussed to death and no one cares anymore. Good job Radiohead on forcing the illegal downloads!

£6 is not exactly an enormous amount to pay if you want to hear in that much!

Psyched for this, although I'm not sure I'm actually going to be able to listen to this on the 19th. Feels weird for an album to have a RELEASE DATE that means something in 2011 - I miss release date excitement far more than the physical CD in this day and age.

See, I would totally be jumping on a, like, $15 for digital download now and get the physical CD when its rleased. I just happen to fall into that gap where I want a physical product, but I don't want to shell out $48 for it.

Agree there should be a middle option, with just a compact disc preorder. I don't even have a turntable anymore, and if I did, that still seems a pretty steep price to pay for some fancy packaging and an album I'm not even sure yet whether or not I'll like.

In Rainbows = Pay what you want
King of Limbs = sorry, we gotta get paid

i'd imagine if they could have manufactured the CD/LP themselves and sold it and avoided labels completely, they would have. to think they hadnt thought it through and done the sums is probably naive - i would imagine the amounts they lose in illegal downloads in the month before its in the shops is not comparable to taking on the distro themselves.

My barrier isn't the price, it's the extra crap I have no space for in my house.

can't believe you're unwilling to make room for 625 tiny pieces of artwork

In Rainbows = Pay what you want
King of Limbs = sorry, we gotta get paid

― van smack, Monday, February 14, 2011

eh, this is more than a little unfair as a criticism, unless you subscribe to the "music years to be free (of charge)" school of thought.

radiohead have families to feed, you know.

can't believe you're unwilling to make room for 625 tiny pieces of artwork

That has about the same level of appeal as "also included: a really old slice of ham" for me

^ yes, this

i always thought the brilliant bit of the In Rainbows release was not the pay what you want model but the fact that they had complete control of its dissemination, i.e. no leaks, no promos, no record stores opening it early, etc. it's much easier to sell people a record they don't have yet.

The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

source?

I admit I am looking forward to the anguished "WHERE ARE THOSE LAST TWO PIECES OF TINY ARTWORK" blog posts/tweets

i agree w/ lj and johnny that there should be a "middle option" between the download and deluxe "newspaper album" (lol) box set. but i get why they would delay the standard cd edition. big radiohead fans who want a physical product asap will be more likely to order the box without a lower-priced physical option to trade down to. smart business move imo

also, this drawing from the radiohead blog should be the album cover imo

http://cdn.sandbag.uk.com/RH/thankyou2.jpg

They'll make enough money off selling t-shirts with that album cover on them. It seems designed to have the maximum possible appeal to teenage goths.

And so the laughable bullshit begins...

― Under Me Smang Tang (Doran), Monday, February 14, 2011 9:21 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"What's not yet clear is why it's called a "Newspaper Album". But newspapers – it's no secret – are suffering the same sort of woes as the music industry. Is there some hidden clue here for how the print business will find salvation, too?"

i have nothing to say about this except to register my respect to Melissa W for starting this thread after already starting the 'in rainbows' thread

That has about the same level of appeal as "also included: a really old slice of ham" for me

was so excited for you to get the pic they commissioned from me :(

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1zGLaFOzr-E/TQp1U7atOjI/AAAAAAAAESU/FQsl8F_-TJQ/s1600/DSCN9152.JPG

xpost -- Hahah I was thinking that too. A sign of true reliability!

btw, yes, former Midwesterners, that's ham with cream cheese on it. I'm going to boil it in 2 gallons of cream of mushroom soup and then serve it on a bed of saltines.

Those scallions look good.

[q] The regular CD will be in stores on March 28th.

source?[/q]

The guy who runs the atease news site. Always reliable when it comes to this sort of thing.

Ugh, ignore code fuck-up.

Can we conclude now that ultimately Radiohead's "groundbreaking" In Rainbows sale approach, ie. let the customer decide, was just a one off and has failed? It was hailed as The Future of Music Buying when IR came out, but already they are going back to a more traditional way of selling their music. I don't know any figures on how IR did, what the average was that a buyer paid for it etc. But surely the band themselves must be disappointed. If not them, then at least the ever horny and looking for saviours mainstream music press will be. But then they are, again, hailed as the saviours of the music biz now, judging by that Grauniad article linked up here.

iirc In Rainbows 'sold' pretty well but everyone agreed that was only possible due to the high profile/large fanbase of the band

i have nothing to say about this except to register my respect to Melissa W for starting this thread after already starting the 'in rainbows' thread

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 14, 2011 9:10 AM

Not sure if this is respect or "respect"?

That doesn't even work as sarcasm Jordan.

J0rdan has been trying to make up for Whiney being gone.

I'm pretty sure that the In Rainbows thing did quite well for the band, but that they considered it a card that could only be played once.

i think it all depends on how much they did take in.

guys i wasn't being sarcastic

I doubt they're that arsed how much money they make from this.

i think the idea is, radiohead "discovered" with In Rainbows how much ppl are willing to pay for a Radiohead digital download. so now they are most likely charging prices along the lines of what ppl were willing to pay for the last one... right?

to be far to radiohead, they were very keen to emphasise that pay-as-you-want was not "the future of music buying" as the press labelled it, but rather a reaction to the situation they found themselves in - i.e. unable to decide on a pricing model. looks like thats not the case this time.

Here's a fake cover for you, ilxor. You can tag your mp3s with this:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVlI_0noOlI/AAAAAAAAAdM/dRJ0d8It_3U/s800/radioheadfaux.jpg

hahahaha <3

radiohead have families to feed, you know.

Sure, I paid them last time (for a physical CD) and I'll gladly pay them this time around too. But it pisses me off that once more it'll take months for the physical CD to eventually appear in the shops.

i think the fact that they're totally in control of the distribution (at least to start out with) is a lot more important to them than the price point