more Radiohead anger management
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/101407radio
"This is a solution for Radiohead, not for the industry."
Of course it is. If there was a question asking the contrary, can the music business PLEASE get a life? Why are you expecting a SINGLE FUCKING BAND to save your business and broken model?
1.2 million is a very commendable, successful and hopefully sustainable figure for the band and their related staff. I wonder how much the bandwidth is costing them. I'm sure they don't need too many people to serve the downloads just before the physical products kicks in place.
And are there new downloaders continuing to purchase downloads? I better try that, RIGHT NOW. How much.......well, this would be my second purchase (I got the diskbox), so er, 1.5 Pounds? that would be about 300 Yen, US$2.7? One second thought, why buy it again? Stupid.
Radiohead Sales Estimates Surface, New Wrinkles Emerge
Radiohead has yet to disclose sales numbers on its latest album, In Rainbows, though fresh estimates are bubbling. The first comes from Gigwise, which pointed to downloads of roughly 1.2 million several days ago, citing a source "close to the band". That figure was echoed by a similar estimate of 1.3 million received by William Blanchard, owner of digital content delivery and ecommerce firm Lambcast, Ltd. Blanchard tracked sequential order numbers from the Radiohead website, and shared the top-level estimate with Digital Music News on Sunday.But how many of those customers actually paid for the album? A survey of 5,000 participating fans by the London-based Telegraph offered a possible breakdown. The newspaper found that one quarter paid nothing or one pence, another half paid between one pence and £10 ($20.32), and the remainder volunteered higher prices or purchased the £40 ($81.30) box set.
Meanwhile, some dissatisfaction surrounds a choice by the band to deliver the album in a compression quality of 160kbps, a level that trumps iTunes but falls below standard CD-quality. The move appears part of a larger plan to motivate purchases of the more conventional CD album, slated for release early next year. The traditional disc - like the more complicated box version - will carry bonus tracks to encourage purchases. "If we didn't believe that when people hear the music they will want to buy the CD, then we wouldn't do what we are doing," manager Bryce Edge recently told Music Week. "This is a solution for Radiohead, not for the industry."