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.
Gregg
But, then there’s the bad news:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1571737/20071011/radiohead.jhtml
as seen on Towleroad
faghag
I paid £5 for mione and sounded great , people need to stop acting like twat, this is the future of music.