Boy, is it!
Radiohead's 7th LP is being released, online, on October 10th! Apparently they haven't resigned to a label, and they're distributing it themselves, online. The new LP is titled In Rainbows, is 10 tracks long, and will be available in only 10 days.
Also:
- You can preorder a music pack that includes the actual CD, the album on vinal, a second CD with additional songs, and some added artwork. The thing is shipped on December 3rd, but costs 40 pounds.
- If you only want the new LP, apparently you can pay however much you want for the download. Yes, it appears that Radiohead is not setting a price for download.
More details here.
Thoughts:
- Radiohead's giving the finger to the major music labels. Thinking that even if everyone only pays $1 or $2 for the whole album, that's about how much they'd get from every CD sold through a major label. Thinking that their concert revenue is astronomical and that album sales drive ticket sales.
- Only 10 days between album announcement and release date? This means that Radiohead is even more secretive than Bill Belichick, Steve Jobs, or John Lasseter. I guess something like this would be impossible to pull off with a music label, since there would be too many people in the know to keep such a plan secret.
Wow. It's been, what, two or three years since Hail to the Thief? Guess we have something to look forward to on October 1oth!
2 comments:
The new album will be coming out almost four and a half years after Hail to the Thief, Chris. The whole class of '07 went through college without a new Radiohead album ever being released!
In fact, last semester I ran into a student of mine while in line at Panera (think ABP) who asked me what music was I listening to on my ipod. After I replied, he said "Oh, Radiohead, yes, I've heard about them."
--That was the same week I had turned 30. I've yet to recover.
OK, right - I remember now, it came out when I was a first year. I remember it accompanying me on my 30 minute trek to campus. It's amazing to think that OK Computer came out 10 years ago!
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