Exit Music (for a comScore Study)
Add top-selling British rock band Radiohead to the list of those who’ve questioned the validity of comScore’s panel-based traffic data. In a statement issued yesterday, the band disputed comScore’s claim that 60% of the people who downloaded its new album, “In Rainbows,” didn’t pay a cent for it.
“In response to purely speculative figures announced in [...]
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Could You Repeat That, Senator? I Was Thinking About My Alibaba Stake
Hey, You’re the Ones Who Said It Was Up to Us …
Depending on which side of the music industry you sit, the pay-what-you-like pricing plan under which Radiohead chose to release its new album, “In Rainbows,” is either another not-quite-killing blow to established music-industry business models or an ill-conceived, money-losing gimmick.
According to research outfit comScore, about 1.2 million people visited Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” Web site [...]
Our New Service Is Called ‘Total Music,’ but We Like to Refer to It Internally as ‘Total Panic’
The per-device royalties Universal Music Group receives for every Zune player sold were apparently substantial enough to buy CEO Doug Morris a bigger set of balls, because he’s out drumming up support for an industry-owned subscription service with which he hopes to loosen Apple’s grip on the digital music market.
Radiohead to Record Labels: ‘This Is What You Get, When You Mess With Us’
Well, this is sure to set a cat among the pigeons who still believe they have a God-given right to control the retail distribution and pricing of music.
Recently freed of its contractual obligation to major label EMI Group, top-selling British rock band Radiohead is releasing its seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” on Oct. 10 as [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
