insight into the music industry


	insight into the music industry

boozich

12-19-2007 3:23 PM

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radiohead, yorke, byrne, interview

boozich says:

David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music- the interview gives amazing insight into why Radiohead bypassed the "regular music industry" route.

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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke?currentPage=all">more than a million fans downloaded <EM>In Rainbows</EM>. Roughly 40 percent of them paid for it, at an average of $6 each, netting the band nearly $3 million. Plus, since it owns the master recording (a first for the band), Radiohead was also able to license the album for a record label to distribute the old-fashioned way — on CD</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke?currentPage=all">Byrne:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke?currentPage=all">What you did with this record wasn't traditional, not even in the sense of sending advance copies out to the press and such.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke?currentPage=all"><P>
<STRONG>Yorke:</STRONG> The way we termed it was "our leak date." Every record for the last four — including my solo record — has been leaked. So the idea was like, we'll leak it, then.
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<STRONG>Yorke:</STRONG> Yeah, and then you'd ring up and say, "Did you like it? What did you think?" And it's three months in advance. And then it'd be, "Would you go do this for this magazine," and maybe this journalist has heard it. All these silly games. 
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