Give these guys a hand...
Purebuttons.com, LLC has purchased the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, for $1,000.00 in support of Radiohead's "silent" effort to revolutionize the music industry.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Radiohead Album bought for $1000
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Well, not quite. They bought 10 copies of the discbox for around $82 a pop (total of $820 there) and one copy of the download for around $204. So while they spent in excess of $1000, it isn't as if they spent that much on a single download.
Yeah, Jon, I saw that too - you guys note the comments on their press release page? A couple examples: "so basically, instead of magnanimously spending $1000 on a digital download, you spent $200 on a digital download and $800 on box sets which will more than likely be worth far more than the investment in a few years' time. if only i could golf clap in person for you. most pompous, self-congratulatory press release i've read in ages."
Then someone a few comments down says, "...you just got more exposure for $1000 than.. well.. i had never heard of your company. kudos to your marketing department."
Kinda takes the fandom out of it, but fuck it - Radiohead got paid for the work they've done. And with the exposure that the band got from their decision to release the album the way that they did, someone else was gonna have to try to cash in on that publicity. I guess it's nice that even though these cock-nozzles tried to essentially exploit Radiohead for their own gain, at least, especially this time, they're not stealing the music.
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