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svl:
le 10 pfff fais suer c'est trop loin  :blbl:

dire qu'ils n'en n'ont même pas parlé aux infos de france =2  :gna:

hunting android:
Okay people! Take a couple deep breaths, count to 10, switch the caps lock off, clean up the triple espresso you just spit all over the computer screen, and check this: that new Radiohead album, In Rainbows? The one that the world knew practically zilch about 24 hours ago? The one that drops digitally (DRM-free, no less!) in nine days, for a price of your own choosing? The one that's also coming out in a deluxe "discbox" in December? Well, it's also coming out in good, old fashioned CD format early next year.

No word on when exactly or through which label-- if any label at all-- but that's the news thus far from the band's publicist.

So, let's sort this whole mess out, shall we? You will eventually have three ways to pick up the seventh Radiohead LP, the Nigel Godrich-produced In Rainbows. It all depends how much you want to pay, which goodies you'd like, and how soon you want the tunes. Observe:

1. As a DRM-free mp3 download, beginning October 10 (and available for preorder now), via www.inrainbows.com (interestingly enough, last week's RickRoll, www.radioheadlp7.com, now directs here as well). This version contains the 10 tracks that comprise In Rainbows, and you can pay whatever the hell you want for it. This is basically the band leaking the album and asking you for a donation to access it.

2. As part of a deluxe "discbox", available for preorder now and shipping in December. In addition to the 10-track In Rainbows on CD, you also get the release on LP and as a digital download, plus an enhanced bonus CD packed with eight more tracks, photos, and artwork (and an LP of the bonus tracks), plus art and lyrics booklets and some nifty looking packaging. This thing costs £40.00/$81.00.

3. As a traditional CD, available in early 2008. This will presumably cost as much as traditional CDs tend to cost.

What Radiohead's doing here is actually pretty cool. Rather than preface their new album's release with the usual three months of press ballyhoo, only to have it leak at some random time before it comes out, they've kept it completely under wraps, then essentially gone and leaked it themselves. What's more, they've turned this into a moral question of sorts, by giving us the freedom to pay actual money for what amounts to an album leak.

Only a band in Radiohead's position could pull a trick like this. Well played, gentlemen.
Posted by Matthew Solarski in album on Mon: 10-01-07: 11:11 AM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink

lu sur Pitchfork.

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--- Citer ---Radiohead laisse ses fans décider du prix de son nouvel album
20h16 | 01/10/2007 - © Reuters

Radiohead, sans doute un des groupes de rock anglais les plus marquants de la dernière décennie, compte proposer en téléchargement sur son site internet son nouvel opus et laisser ses admirateurs choisir ce qu'ils veulent payer.

Depuis sept ans, début de l'avènement de l'ère du téléchargement illégale de musique, l'industrie du disque vend de moins en moins d'albums et tente de trouver la parade.

Contrairement à beaucoup de ses collègues, Thom Yorke, le leader du groupe, a toujours déclaré que le téléchargement illégal ne le dérangeait pas, l'essentiel étant que sa musique soit écoutée.

"In Rainbows", le septième album du groupe né à Oxford, sera donc disponible sur Radiohead.com à partir du 10 octobre en format MP3, ce qui signifie que les titres pourront être écoutés à partir de n'importe quel lecteur multimédia. Les fans pourront ensuite choisir de payer une contribution, s'ils le veulent, et d'un montant de leur choix.

Mais le groupe proposera également une édition limitée de leur oeuvre, matérialisée cette fois, qui comprendra outre les photos habituelles, deux disques vinyles, une version CD de l'album, ainsi qu'un autre CD de morceaux inédits.

Ce "package" coûtera une quarantaine de livres (57 euros environ) et l'approche des fêtes de fin d'année, sans doute pas un hasard, devrait doper les ventes de l'objet qui pourrait devenir culte.

Selon des observateurs du milieu musical, le quintet britannique, qui n'est plus sous contrat avec aucune major, pourrait réussir son pari, grâce à l'immense popularité du groupe, secondée par un réseau bien huilé.

"Ils sont le premier groupe à se payer directement sur la bête", a déclaré à Reuters Gareth Grundy, directeur adjoint du magazine musical Q.

"Je pense que d'autres groupes, à la popularité similaire, vont observer le phénomène, et vont tenter, si cela fonctionne, de les imiter."

"L'industrie traditionnelle a été dévastée par internet", juge encore Grundy, elle "tente encore de trouver quel modèle économique pourrait la sauver, et cela est l'une des options."

Prince, figure de la musique pop américaine, a scandalisé l'industrie du disque, qui l'a accusé de dévaloriser la musique, en distribuant cet été son dernier enregistrement, "Planet Earth", en supplément gratuit du tabloïd britannique Mail on Sunday.
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hunting android:
Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important — easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business — are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none.


In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.

Radiohead's contract with EMI/Capitol expired after its last record, Hail to the Thief, was released in 2003; shortly before the band started writing new songs, singer Thom Yorke told TIME, "I like the people at our record company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say 'F___ you' to this decaying business model." On Sunday night, guitarist Jonny Greenwood took to Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog and nonchalantly announced, "Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days. We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all."

While many industry observers speculated that Radiohead might go off-label for its seventh album, it was presumed the band would at least rely on Apple's iTunes or United Kingdom-based online music store 7digital for distribution. Few suspected the band members had the ambition (or the server capacity) to put an album out on their own. The final decision was apparently made just a few weeks ago, and, when informed of the news on Sunday, several record executives admitted that, despite the rumors, they were stunned. "This feels like yet another death knell," emailed an A&R executive at a major European label. "If the best band in the world doesn't want a part of us, I'm not sure what's left for this business."

Labels can still be influential and profitable by focusing on younger acts that need their muscle to get radio play and placement in record stores — but only if the music itself remains a saleable commodity. "That's the interesting part of all this," says a producer who works primarily with American rap artists. "Radiohead is the best band in the world; if you can pay whatever you want for music by the best band in the world, why would you pay $13 dollars or $.99 cents for music by somebody less talented? Once you open that door and start giving music away legally, I'm not sure there's any going back."

The ramifications of Radiohead's pay-what-you-want experiment will take time to sort out, but for established artists at least, turning what was once their highest-value asset — a much-buzzed-about new album — into a loss leader may be the wave of the future. Even under the most lucrative record deals, the ones reserved for repeat, multi-platinum superstars, the artists can end up with less than 30% of overall sales revenue (which often is then split among several band members). Meanwhile, as record sales decline, the concert business is booming. In July, Prince gave away his album Planet Earth for free in the U.K. through the downmarket Mail on Sunday newspaper. At first he was ridiculed. Then he announced 21 consecutive London concert dates — and sold out every one of them.


http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html

Ectorleressor:
En gros ce qui ressort le plus des 3/4 de ces articles, c'est que les journalistes voient ça comme un argument marketing ou une vaste opération de test...ils se sont pas dit que c'était juste le fruit d'un ras le bol des maisons de disques? ou encore que c'est quelque chose qu'ils avaient tout simplement envie de faire sans commencer à tirer des plans sur la comète?

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