I know I’m late to blogging about this party, but I’ve been talking about it to anyone who will listen for weeks (just ask my bandmates), but this whole Radiohead thing is really just too awesome. In case you have buried your head in the sand, here’s a bit from an article on it:

Radiohead, which offered its latest album as free downloads last week, has seen 1.2 million downloads of “In Rainbows.” With no label, no promotions, and direct access to fans, Radiohead gave up its music for free and asked for donations, whatever fans deemed reasonable, in return. What the band got was an average of $8 per album sold, bringing estimates of profit to about $10 million. (full article)

On one hand, all of the chatter that we all confront on a day-to-day basis makes it very hard to separate yourself from the crowd, but if your songs are good enough, and you work hard enough, and are clever enough, this is a great time to be an independent artist. Fuck labels! Who needs ‘em?

Posted on October 19th, 2007 by axewheelder
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