Radiohead album - the way forward?

[Caveat]

This might go someway to expalining the breakdown of where the money goes from a CD

Based on this then, you are looking at around €1.50 per CD - also, the calculation is based on lower UK CD retail prices and on the author's admittedly "lowish" rate of 14%.

That considered, total to artist, in practice, could quite easily be €2.00 per unit.

Not a huge amount, but a good deal better than "less than €1"

(Would also agree with Elefantfresh's approach BTW)

 

[gianni]

I suppose no matter how cheap something is you will always get tightarses who want it for free!!

I didn't download it, just making the point that you wouldn't have to pay a CC fee if you didn't use your CC.

Don't agree with your flippancy about those people who chose to get it for free as being "tightarses".

Trying to evade tax, now that would be more akin to tightarse behaviour...IMHO

 

[Harlequin]

Radiohead also offered a special discbox version of the album - you pay £40stg and you get to download the album now, and then some time between now and December, you get the album on CD and on vinyl plus a bunch of artwork and lyrics and stuff and an enhanced CD including extra tracks and pictures. All in a special book.

So even though we could have got it for free, I know several people who are perfectly happy to shell out for the limited edition stuff. Radiohead fans are obsessive collectors!!

Wikipedia quotes a Gigwise article article saying that 1.2 million copies were sold with an average price of £4 each. If that's true, not bad going at all.

 

[IrishGunner]

Have not downloaded it but an interesting article [broken link removed]
about the quality of the download

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