Radiohead - In Rainbows

Were the mega-compressed pay-what-you-want (or free) MP3s your October 2007 review's In Rainbows reference point(s)? If so, that'd 'splain a ton.

You're obviously well-informed (having got here first/kicked-off this thread, etc.), but have you a reliable source for this info?

Interviews with the band.

Posted anywhere in particular? (My searches of the Interweb {e.g., Google News} have come up empty.)

This may interest those of you with time on your hands in London today...

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

(xpost) maybe she asked them?

I'd heard 80,000.

could they be any more fey?

I'm pretty sure the 80,000 figure was mentioned in the observer music monthly interview and at least one of the bbc radio interviews.

all you london based ILM'rs : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7191556.stm

don't these fucks have jobs?

From The Observer, Sunday December 9, 2007,

"Caught in the flash" by moderator/interviewer, Craig McLean:

'Can you say something about the sales figures of In Rainbows, the average price paid only for the download and the number of ordered discboxes? In which countries the most discboxes?'

Ed: 'I think there's about 80,000 discboxes.'

Jonny: '60,000.'

Ed: 'It was 65,000 a week ago.'

Colin: 'It's 72,000.'

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Again, that was almost a month ago. I reckon(er) they've hit 100K sold by now (or shortly before the Christmas).

And, for the record, I didn't doubt the veracity of Melissa W's info, I just wondered where she got/read/heard it.

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Thanks to leigh for the Observer lead; and seconding my own Jesus Christ² - 100K discboxes at $80 USD a pop!?!?! Wowowowowowow.

This album is great, you guys.

But Amy MacDonald costs a fiver.

Is anyone else watching this?

I seriously wished I took the day off work when I found out about the show this morning. :(

Yeah I'm watching, it's brilliant. Amazing how tame My Iron Lung sounds these days.

It looks way more entertaining listening sitting at home than at the shop though

This looks like the best gig of all time to me.

bye thom!

brick lane more liek brick LAME

93 Feet East it turned out morelike

Ed and Thom are broadcasting on Radio 1 right now.

This looks like the best gig of all time to me.

Evidently you weren't at Glastonbury '97.

The In Rainbows material works really well live, I think. (if not better than on the album itself)

I love the way the drums sound, sort of soft and tactile; and in a lot of cases they sound "closer" to the listener (less reverb / panning) than the other parts of the song.

It actually reminds me of some idm (thinking of RDJ album) - drums and melody have these kind of parallel independent lives, rather than one serving the other.

The "Scotch Mist" show was on TMF last night, nice.

I'm listening to this/watching this now.

Did I already say they are the best live band in the world on this thread yet? And did I mention they are coming to my town? And do you know those fuckers will never be as good in the studio as they are live? Really I'm not quite sure why they even try.

They'd be great in the studio if they just stopped over producing everything.

I love this album more every time B0b L3fs3tz froths about it.

I think the uglier Thom Yorke gets, the more unshaven, the more "fell out of bed" his hair looks, the more I like it. I think he ought to really go the whole hog, grow out the beard/hair, do a bad 70's fashion thing, man. Then I'll really be happy.

Great as this album is, Radiohead are approaching oversaturation at the moment.

15 step sounds curiously nice at 33rpm

are they going to take four years dribbling out another one of these then?

^probably

I LOVE THE STICKERS YOU GET WHEN YOU BUY THE CD EVEN IF YOU ALREADY BOUGHT THE DOWNLOAD!

All my impulses to be a creative child were satisfied by realizing these stickers were there! You can peel them off and put them on a white piece of paper and wow! COLOURFUL ART ON YOUR WALL! I love it.

Only live versions of these songs suffice, now, though. Only live versions. I will not go to my grave before seeing them live again, mark my words.

http://www.gigwise.com/news/40672/emi-to-release-radiohead-greatest-hits-album

Ed O’Brien told Canadian music-TV presenter Strombo: “They’re planning to do a greatest hits for April, May to coincide with our tour. That’s an interesting one. We won’t be doing any promotion for that, obviously.”

Yeah, I wonder if that means they're not going to play any of the songs on the greatest hits...

not sure why they'd be "wrathful" or whatever about this. nice for them that they're breaking even.

I just started recently appreciating those bonus tracks!!!!

But live versions trump all.

It's impossible to get "4 Minute Warning" or "Down Is The New Up" out of my head once they start.

Also have they got an amazing drummer or WHAT?

...I'm still rather amused by imagining a parallel-o-verse where Radiohead have released a collection of Richie Blackmore covers.

TOPSY TURVY TOWN

I think this is, now, definitely my favourite Radiohead album. I still; think they're hideously overrated, though.

I actually want to listen to this from time to time; that's the deal-maker.

Anyone else pick up tickets for the US tour? My girlfriend and I snagged a decent pair of seats for Houston, May 17.

Though I will say, it baffles me that Radiohead can come up with a brilliant, barely tested way to distribute their album independently, for free and for profit simultaneously, and avoid all the major label bullshit - yet for concerts, they're still going with Ticketmaster without protest.

not on sale for the bay area yet, but I'll go this time; the hail to the thief show we saw in London four years ago was one of the best shows I've ever seen, certainly better than the last time I saw them, which was after Pablo Honey (yeah I'm dumb)

can't they just do like 10 shows at the warfield instead of sending me down to mountain view?

is that where it'll be? so terrible. I'd almost rather it just be at the fucking coliseum

Tickets went on sale yesterday, but I've been lazy.