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Radiohead: We Rejected Digital-Only To Reach More People

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More than two years after Radiohead released its pay-what-you-like online album In Rainbows, the project is still being talked about as revolutionary, despite being just one example of the many new-wave distribution methods, and despite getting an eventual chart-topping CD release.

In this video interview with the upcoming Midem music conference, the band’s Ed O’Brien says online-only couldn’t reach enough ears…

“At one stage, it was put that it would be a digital release only, no physical release at all, a real statement…

“But we realised that ... everybody likes to get their music in a certain way and they don’t like to go off-route with it. You have to make your music available to lots of people in different ways, make it available to people how they want to consume it.”

Jan 8, 2010 5:14 AM ET

Radiohead Photo: Splash News


Posted In: Entertainment, Music

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