Nobody makes leftist propaganda like Radiohead and this video is no exception. Make sure you watch until the end to see how it all fits together.

Eschewing traditional distribution, Radiohead released In Rainbows via the Internet. Despite some jerky fans who refused to pay nothing, the band's raked in approximately $9.6 million. Via Machinist:

The British music newsletter Record of the Day conducted a poll of 3,000 purchasers of the album. People paid an average price of £4, about $8, the newsletter found.

Because the band isn't working with a record label, it gets to keep all that money. If it had sold its songs instead on iTunes, it would likely have seen less than $1.50 per album.

If only more artists would get hip to giving away their tunes.

There's a bit of a civil war brewing in our blogger family. In a piece rhetorically entitled, "Am I A Jerk For Downloading The New Radiohead Album For Free?" Jossip editor Rebecca Aronauer writes: "I wasn’t an economics major, but when someone offers me the choice of paying for something or getting it for free, I usually choose free."

In a blistering editorial of his own, Mollygood editor Cord Jefferson confirms Aronauer's fears:

Yes, you are a jerk for downloading the new Radiohead album for free… The reason you are a jerk is because the business model Radiohead created is innovative, smart and important, and you should support that, no matter how little you can give.

We think they're both jerks who should burn us a copy. That way get the album for free without our pesky conscience getting in the way.