Everyone seems to be fawning over the fact that Radiohead have decided to sell their album but let you decide the price… Big deal… I was a huge fan of Radiohead (I even liked Kid A) but this whole price fiasco smells iffy to me…
- For the last 10 years at least there have been lesser known musical innovators selling their work for thruppence (or less) only you haven’t heard of them because they aren’t rich
- Radiohead can afford it. Making gestures like this with your pockets wedged with cash makes me sick to be honest… like the landed gentry hippies of the 60s, of course you can quit your job and live off the land you have a herd of deer living in your garden you can shoot!
- It’s a bit late. If “OK computer” had been released like this, THAT would have been ahead of it’s time and worthy of comment. That would have shaken the music business and it would have hurt their pockets.
- The price of an album is heading towards £0.50p anyway, asking for more (by leaving the option open for stupid dinosaurs who think an album is genuinely worth a tenner) is quite frankly greedy, taking advantage of idiots
- Big bands, stadium rock, rock n roll is so last century anyway. Live music rocks. You tube rocks. Garageband rocks. Rock doesn’t rock anymore.
I haven’t downloaded Radiohead’s album yet… it’s not the principle, it’s the pricing structure…
Why Radiohead Should Price Your Software « Radiowalker: Tech Business Beat
So, despite disagreeing with the Radiohead analogy, I agree with the issue to do with software pricing, that still is all over the place with loads of room for meaningful innovation as opposed to what Radiohead are doing, which is jumping on a bandwagon.
