Line Out - Comments on I gave Radiohead $9 for their album. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album Which came out to about six and a half pounds. $9 just seemed like the right price for me. Am I an idiot? Am I the only person who actually paid something?... Copyright 2008 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:59:03 -0800 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:03:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Michael Yuasa $9 US Dollars equals 4.4 British Pounds, not 6.5 like you wrote. The converstion rate is 0.489 per USD....doy

]]> Michael Yuasa http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822205 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822205 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:11:03 -0800 Comment by Sam M. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/poll_but_how_many_fans_will_catch_them

]]> Sam M. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822206 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822206 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:11:14 -0800 Comment by Fyodor Zulinski Radiohead is damn rich. If they go on tour I'll pay up, and I might buy the album is the much-rumored CD release happens next year, but why not give the money to someone who really needs it like Oxfam or One or whatever?

By eliminating the middleman (and being English - recheck your conversions) they're making bank off of this thing.

]]> Fyodor Zulinski http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822213 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822213 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:16:25 -0800 Comment by konstantConsumer i just paid for the box set, which came out to $81 and change. that included the download, so i suppose i paid nothing for it.

]]> konstantConsumer http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822229 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822229 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:26:42 -0800 Comment by Nick I paid 81.00 as well. I look forward to getting the hard copies for the bonus disc and the artwork by Stanley Donwood, who says it is well worth the money. WOOT.

The album is brilliant, I can't stop listening to it.

]]> Nick http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822237 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822237 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:29:16 -0800 Comment by trent moorman You are most certainly NOT an idiot. I think $9 is a good price.

But what will you use for the album art? Sam's is pretty good.

]]> trent moorman http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822270 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822270 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:00:57 -0800 Comment by andrv I paid 5 pounds which came out to $10 flat -- a price I'm very content paying.

]]> andrv http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822291 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822291 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:09:23 -0800 Comment by Tom @andrv, same here, paid 5 pounds. Seemed fair... downloading it now.

]]> Tom http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822297 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822297 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:12:51 -0800 Comment by Lars Ulrich's Tennis Racket Listen to you talk about fair. Fair would be paying $1000 for the album so the dudes can make atleast a year's pay at fair market scale for a grocery bagger after every asshole and their mom downloads the thing for free (you don't have to pay the penny if you get it from P2P, ask Hetfield. He copped it already.)

]]> Lars Ulrich's Tennis Racket http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822308 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822308 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:17:42 -0800 Comment by meh I also paid 5 pounds. And I download a lot of music. Why would I stiff one of my favorite artists by paying next to nothing for something I want so badly? Conversely - I pay $x per song. Why should I pay more for a song just because I want it badly or it's of better quality? (That'd be artistic quality, not bit quality, which doesn't matter to me.)

]]> meh http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822392 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822392 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:16:23 -0800 Comment by >>> if radiohead is ok with you paying nothing for it then there's nothing wrong with paying nothing for it. i doubt they are going to go hungry tonight.

and this idiot is apparently going to cover for 10 or so of us no payers anyway:

Jason Raney of Sacramento, California -
"I'm planning on paying a hundred dollars American flat for my download of "In Rainbows" by Radiohead. I'm not getting the special vinyl and CD set, just the ordinary download. I believe, that as a musician, it is an investment in my future. I want to send a message. "Keep your corporate conglomerate out of my artwork."

wow jason, what a powerful statement. if you're intent on pissing dollars how about considering something like a charity?

]]> >>> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822397 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822397 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:20:06 -0800 Comment by MC Confused And shoplifting is just nature's little way of saying "Fuck White People...and Koreans...and Sikhs".

]]> MC Confused http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822404 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822404 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:27:06 -0800 Comment by Steve Prince gives his albums away for free at his concerts. I think you are an idiot for liking Radiohead.

]]> Steve http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822413 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822413 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:33:22 -0800 Comment by >>> shoplifting isn't a valid comparison. radiohead offered the product for whatever price you wanted to pay for it - including nothing. i've donated my fair share of money to radiohead over the past decade or so. i'll take this one for free thank you.

]]> >>> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822443 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822443 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:03:59 -0800 Comment by >>> I'll bet you raid tacobell for napkins and hot sauce too, big tipper.

]]> >>> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822488 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822488 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:34:31 -0800 Comment by >>> taco bell? fuck that shit. with all the money i saved on this radiohead download it is taco del mar tonight.

]]> >>> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822514 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822514 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:05:41 -0800 Comment by Wait, Who Gives Head For $(> Leninist.

]]> Wait, Who Gives Head For $(> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822606 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822606 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:31:08 -0800 Comment by >>> exactly. why do you think they call it free-mont anyway?

]]> >>> http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822766 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822766 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:14:03 -0800 Comment by kelly I can't wait to hear this on Vinyl----Was this recorded on 2 inch tape?!

]]> kelly http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822787 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822787 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:24:10 -0800 Comment by rob I'm impressed with how smoothly the whole process of downloading went. Props.

]]> rob http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822823 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822823 Album Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:29:14 -0800 Comment by Kelly I paid $5 plus the credit card fee.

]]> Kelly http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822897 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c822897 Album Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:11:44 -0800 Comment by josh £s;7, because that was about the going rate for other radiohead discs on amazon.co.uk

still no e-mail from w.a.s.t.e. though.

]]> josh http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c823598 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/10/i_gave_radiohead_9_for_their_album#c823598 Album Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:03:30 -0800