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...concerts for stoned Ivy Leaguers. Movies completely out of touch with mainstream American black culture (like “Collateral” and “Superbad”) use their tunes when they need a rap song to soundtrack an onscreen party. Hell, the Roots have even sampled Radiohead. On “Rising Down,” Roots MC Black Thought says “They can never take the pen away / I’m LeRoi Jones.” But if these guys are aiming to please Amiri Baraka, they’re probably missing their...
...asked Congleton if the “pay-what-you-want” schemes of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are the future of music...
...record-company revenues from such tangible products tumbled roughly 6% in 2007, leaving firms with some $19.3 billion in total sales last year, a quarter less than in 1999. The digital market is hardly new, yet it still seems to catch major record labels dozing. Alt-rockers Radiohead last year famously distributed their album In Rainbows without the help of their former record company, EMI, instead letting fans decide how much to pay the band to download it. Meanwhile, adding to the sense that this entire industry is in flux, musicians' other means of income - from T-shirt sales...
...themselves; some don't want to," says Max Hole, executive vice president of Universal Music Group International, which oversees Winehouse's label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company. "The only reason we could even get away with this," Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, said recently about selling its album directly to fans, "is that we've gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place...
...Mart, for the bargain price of $11.88. The average price of a CD in Europe dropped by 4% between 2003 and 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels is to offer deluxe products that pair a standard CD with a fancy book, live recording or DVD. Radiohead figured that out: aside from its pay-what-you-want download offer, the band flogged a special-edition box set of In Rainbows for $80 a piece. And a repackaged, "deluxe" version of Back To Black, bundling Winehouse's 2006 album with bonus tracks, shot to the top of Britain...