MP3 It Didn’t Come With Art
posted by on October 10 at 0:02 AM
So I made my own. Sheezus, Radiohead, how else are stylish iPhone users supposed to prove their downloading cred—shove their overpriced device in a friend’s face and make them read the file names? That’s so February fucking 2007. For insta-cred, slap this self-produced gem into your In Rainbows directory:
Since I too am a revolutionary figure in the world of digital album……..art, I’m making this jpg available in a “pay what you want” format. It’s the only way I can survive in this hyper-digital, hyper-fast-paced, hyper-tubular industry. I think.
Thoughts on the album will be posted everywhere else on the Internet before anyone actually digests it properly, so I won’t rush in. But I have to admit, I’m already extremely happy about “Nude.” Ever see Meeting People Is Easy, the 1997 Radiohead documentary? Remember the song that shows up in half-completed form while the band’s in the studio? They finally finished it. That song alone is worth the download price.
yeah i'm pretty sure a couple people died or something. some kids came of age, balls were dropped.
nude kills me. KILLS. and videotape. and reckoner.
KILLS.
I'm totally using that artwork in itunes until something better comes along. Oooh! and how about putting it up on last.fm. hehe.
All I can say is: Is Thom listening to Boards of Canada/Clark/Fennesz or What?
I'm with you. "Nude" is great.
the album is great, great, great, great, good, good, okay, good, great, great.
i just took the "enter" page from the inrainbows.com site and used that as the album art.
Beauty.
Whenever I give my phone number out, the person who whips out an iPhone to put my number in gets it slapped to the ground into a zillion pieces and I then tell them "I thought I saw a mosquito" and then I get the fuck outta there hella quick, Relly.
Without the skillz to create my own, I googled "in rainbows cover art" and dragged the results into iTunes from wikipedia. Seemed simple enough to me. Tho I love the little Thom Leperchaun.
I wish this were the real cover. Good album(, though).
Nice PopWatch shout out:
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2007/10/snap-judgment-s.html
Enter page (which I grabbed from Stereogum) as album art, definitely.
Bodysnatchers is excellent; goes on my iPod.
The rest, I'm probably not going to obsess over.
Looking forward to hearing the second disc, though.
this is why they are going to succeed in this "experiment." no production costs for a cd. no label to take money. they need no promotional costs, the media has handled that. and people are actually paying for it. on normal albums artists only get 50 cents to a dollar per record. this one is nearly all profit, except for engineering costs. who knows if no singles and no reviews prior to release are a good or bad thing. albeit this might not work on future releases because the "cherry" is popped meaning less hype in the future.
I had full intentions of dropping a little eCash for the album, but the site is performing so poorly from the entirety of the internets trying to download the damn thing that I ended up torrenting it.
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