New Radiohead Album

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 @ 11:56AM

You pick the price!

Radiohead has a new album that goes on sale 12:01 am Wednesday (United Kingdom time) and you can buy it for whatever you want.  They are releasing it as a download only with NO RECORD COMPANY involved.  Go to http://www.radiohead.com and you can pre order In Rainbows for whatever price you want.  It’s in British Pounds and I chose to give 3 Pounds (about $6) for the download of the new album.  They charged me a 45 Pence transaction fee (if you pay more for the album, the fee is waived) and I’ll get a download code when it goes on sale.

This is cool because it is the first time a major band has released an album without a record company involved.  Many believe this is the future of music.  Normally a record company has a promotional staff that tries to get radio stations to play a certain single, but Radiohead simply will release this album and I can play whatever I want on the air.  We’ll let you help decide which songs you like.

todd’s iPod
10:20 am “Zombie” The Cranberries
1:20 pm “Shadowplay” The Killers (a cover of Joy Division from the forthcoming Killers compilation of B sides and oddities.)