You'll be able to get the boxset for £40 so it will be tangible in some form.  Or you can pay "Whatever you think it's worth" for the digital download.

The whole "Pay whatever you want" thing is cool.  Mate said he'd pay at least a fiver for it, called him a lunatic.  1p all the way.

I was going to say don't be so pretentious, but then I realised, this IS a Radiohead thread.

If they were signed to a major they would be getting about £1.20 per album anyway so anything over that is a profit for them.

The fact that my post was half said in jest, hence the :l o l:, yet someone was straight onto it taking the moral high ground.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/10/nradiohead110.xml

Radiohead's In Rainbows goes online today

By Sally Peck
Last Updated: 10:58am BST 10/10/2007

Hundreds of thousands of Radiohead fans are today enjoying their first listen of the band's new album In Rainbows, which is exclusively available from the group's website.

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Music lovers have been able to pre-order the album - at a price of their choosing - since last Monday, but today is the first day it has been available to download.


Those who pre-ordered are due to receive their access codes sometime after 10am, but people who logged on to the Radiohead website this morning were allowed to download the record immediately.

At 7.30am Telegraph.co.uk downloaded the ten track album for £0.90 - one-tenth of the price of many records available on the High Street, but still double the minimum payment.


After all the hype, the entire process is completed in about one minute: you enter your details, get a code and, for a modest price of your choosing, the album is yours.

Customers who enter the site are prompted to choose between two different formats: a basic digital download version (so you can, in theory, burn as many copies as you like) and a deluxe boxed version that includes the digital downloads, two vinyl records, lyric books, eight bonus tracks and two CDs, which will be shipped in early December.

Paid three quid for it. I'm skint, so I'm sure they'd understand.

Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead

By Harry Wallop and Lucy Cockcroft
Last Updated: 9:35am BST 10/10/2007

Some of the music industry’s biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead to let fans download their new album without charge.

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The band’s website topped the chart of music websites with an 11-fold increase in internet hits after the announcement, according to internet monitoring agency HitWise.

    
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Now Jamiroquai and Oasis, two major names that are not contracted to a record labels, are rumoured to be considering following Radiohead by offering work for free, according to industry sources.

Radiohead refuse to reveal how many fans have pre-ordered their seventh album, In Rainbows, but figures from HitWise show the move pushed the site up from number 43 to the top slot for music websites in the UK.

Google say that searches for Radiohead have increased tenfold this week as fans log on to the band’s site, with the majority – according to the band’s spokesman – spurning the opportunity to download the album for as little as 45 pence and instead signing up for the £40 box set, which includes vinyl records, CD and artwork

The Charlatans are also offering fans their next album completely for free if they visit the site of radio station XFM.

The performers that give away their music for free are expected to make their money from sales of concert tickets and merchandise.

"They’ll all be thinking about it now," said Stuart Clarke at Music Week. "Any big name that is out of contract such as Jamiroquai and Oasis will now see it as an option."

Oasis has already announced that its next single, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, will be available only to download for 99 pence. Meanwhile rumours abound that Madness, a band with a loyal fanbase amongst 40-somethings, is considering giving away its next album for free.

David Enthoven, founder of ie:music, Robbie Williams’s management company, said: "I think a lot could follow. You’ve got to be sure about your fan base but why would you sign your career away to a record label when CD sales are falling so rapidly?"

While CD sales are falling dramatically, download sales have grown from zero in 2003, to 26.5 million in 2005 which then doubled last year to 53.0 million. However, according to the British Phonographic Industry, for every track that is paid for, twenty are downloaded illegally for free.

Yesterday, Alan McGee, the manager of the Charlatans, said he was astonished by how popular the experiment was proving, even though fans were not yet able to download the album.

"The record industry is obsessed by age and fashion. And so you get these amazing British bands like the Charlatans and the Happy Mondays that were massive 10 years ago and are still great, but are out of contract. How do you get them profile? You give away the record."

He said that the initial feedback had been so positive that the he was already considering booking larger venues for the band to play in when they tour next year. "This experiment is going to work, I feel," he said, adding he was confident that merchandise and concert tickets will make up for giving away the free album for free.

Hmm i'm not so keen. Maybe a case of getting used to it BUT at the moment i'm wondering what i wasted 3.40 on.

Think I'll stick £3 in for it, more to support the concept than because I particularly want the album. Hopefully we will see a shift in power away from the major labels. Nice concept.

I'm melting inside man...

I'm stuck at work and I'll pay fuckin' anything, like. Gotto wait till I get home to splash out on the boys.

Just downloaded it, second track is rocking! *shocked*