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.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess the leaky nature of standard label/distro channels precludes a simultaneous release with the mailorder stuff.
― matt h, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Well it's not actually the ghosts and trees which I dislike on the album cover... it's more the choice of colors they picked. Some sort of neon winter reggae... which probably means all songs will sound like variations on 'house of cards'.
― Moka, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
But it pisses me off that once more it'll take months for the physical CD to eventually appear in the shops.
i hear you but, absent the early digital-release, they could have just released the physical product in late march.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder if Pitchfork is seriously having an office party right now
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
What looks reggae about the cover?
I think the worst part is the type on top of the cover. It does look very AP magazine emo/screamo/hardcore/postgoth
― Evan, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
It's apparently a font that was made from handcut blocks of wood that were then scanned. And yet it still doesn't look like anything other than some shitty grungy font from the year 2000.
― Melissa W, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, it's a basic non-grungy font. It's just that it's kind of translucent and you can see the design beneath it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Right. Its paired with such a gothy t-shirt ready image as Matt said.
― Evan, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Although I'm not as hardline about it as Geir, I'm one of those people stuck on the physical format and I'm having a really hard time letting go of that. I know there are so many reasons to get over myself - a) I don't have unlimited physical space for my ever growing collection, b) from an environmental standpoint, its kind of wasteful and indulgent, and c) the "cloud" is obviously the way of the future; but I'm finding myself frustrated when I get "punished" for waiting months and months for a physical item.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
what typeface are we talking about here?
xpost
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
jon and Geir are experiencing what may be the platonic ideal of First World Problems
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I'm just a big old douchey dinosaur for feeling like I do.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 February 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Just about the download, it looks like you need to be able to unzip the files once you get them. Cos I don't generally download stuff (other than from iTunes, Amazon and eMusic), I never got round to buying an application to extract files. The King of Limbs site links the user to Winzip, so if I were to follow their advice, then this whole thing is going to cost me £32. Thanks guys!
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.sandbag.uk.com/RV/c/TKOLPackshot.jpg
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
winzip is free to all intents and purposes. 7zip is really and totally free: http://www.7-zip.org/
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
if you preorder the 'newspaper' edition you'd have to wait a month longer than the people picking up the regular CD/LP. the leak is on saturday, the physical release a month later, the deluxe release a month later than that.
― matt h, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, I want a physical CD without 625 choking hazards as well, which is why I am either going to wait for the physical release or buy the mp3s and pick up the album later if I like it enough
(which reminds me, I still need to pick up physical copies of Heligoland and Heartland)
xp: most modern operating systems open .zip files natively now; they are treated just like regular folders
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks ledge. Why aren't the Radiohead sending people there instead? xxp
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp: what OS are you on? windows has native support for unzipping zip files, at least since XP if not older versions
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
and winzip is 'shareware' or whatever, it asks you to buy it but it never actually disables any features after the 30 days are up iirc
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I got xp, so it may or may not work I guess. Hasn't worked in the past, but I'll figure it out somehow...
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
well 7-zip should work regardless, so you're all set
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
FYI as of version 10 they changed this so that after 30 days you had to buy it; I don't know if they changed it back with subsequent versions
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
does the program actually have features that are worth $ in any sense?
― iatee, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
or are they just relying on people who get confused w/ zip files
winRAR is free and can open .rar and .zip iirc
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
No, not in a world where 7zip exists (xp)
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
not really, it was the first decent zip/unzip program for windows and has been around for ages and ages, so it's used purely on name recognition now that there are good free alternatives
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, winRAR is the champ for all time.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
btw can I just say lol @ all of us for the turn this conversation has taken
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the stuff that Thom Yorke doesn't want you to know.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a good time to ask the question "what is the difference between zip files and rar files?"
― iatee, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
QFT; it really doesn't get better than WinRAR.
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a different encoding algorithm; IIRC RAR files are supposed to be smaller on average
― DJP, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure rar compression creates smaller archive files?
xp
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so why would anyone ever use a zip file?
― iatee, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Rar compresses more than zip, I think the compression algorithm is just more complex or something
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey guys, I wonder what this album will SOUND like?!
― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I think zip files are still used because WinZip doesn't do rars or something, I guess it's kind of the same reason why mp3 is still used even if other formats are technically 'better'
because rar sometimes confuses people and zip is better known/maybe more universal?
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so why would anyone ever use a zip file?― iatee, Monday, February 14, 2011 11:22 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― ciderpress, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
zip is open format, rar is proprietory.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought that 'waiting' artwork is more Meat Puppets circa 1985
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I have learned so much this morning, thank you
― iatee, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
man i wonder how many mbs the compressed archive of this album is going to be!
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
c'mon we can get five days more compression software discussion out of this before the album arrives.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
radiohead's decision to make this a zip file now infuriates me btw
― iatee, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link