Pot of Gold On The Other Side or Radiohead Again

There has been very little numbers since then if any. And my guess is they will not say anything. The band tries to be so cool and never divulge much. That was the biggest problem with the whole thing. I do not know but I think the problem were caused more by laid back rock star hipsterism than greedy.

This is the first time anything like this has been a such big deal. I hope others who certainly will try this will learn from it. They will have to to succeed. There should have been more information up front. These days I mostly rock the ipod mostly so 160k was find. But I understand that people were pissed about especially since other Radiohead digital downloads were always had a high bit rate. Some of it is over blown though. Those bitching that is unlistenable are full of it. If you can more about the sound quality than the emotion use might as well being buying DVD audio of Yanni. My favorite music listening memories was listening to an independent AM radio station that played great music you could not find anywhere else. The sound quality sucked but I was lucky to have heard it and would trade a $20,000 Hi-Fi to be able to listen to it again. But I get the point. Maybe set up different price point for different bit rates of just go high to start with. The possible extra track on the CD is kind of shitty also. These thing should have been out there for the start. But still personal I don’t feel cheated.

The whole thing is a little weird. I cared about album sales for the first time ever. More people talked about how it was sold rather than how good it was. It did get good reviews mostly if anyone paid attention. I would agree with that it is not their best not there worst. The band with no record company payola and promotion created the most buzz a rock band has had in a long time. I sure it will help that tour. They also most likely made a lot of money charging mostly nothing. I heard it referred to as the rich getting richer. But hey I don’t have a problem with bands making money. If there are good they deserve it more than a corrupt infrastructure of leeches. It is better than the labels getting rich doing everything wrong morally and business wise which in their case is “business as usual.”

I think this or something close to this can work clearly. But you should know what you are getting exactly in the way of quality and a sample tracks would not hurt either. Also take advantage of the medium and offer format options to meet the needs or different people. Some art & a track lists would not hurt either. But most of all it just needs more openness.