http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/n...regular-cd-too


Here's the breakdown of how it's being released. Kinda confusing, but I'm really excited for new Radiohead songs. It's funny, there were all these rumors about them being finished with the record and first it was gonna come out this year, then next year, and then nobody knew what the fuck was going on! Looks like Radiohead pulled a fast one on the public with this.

i hope the music can actually match all this hype that they're making up.

WOW i sure needed TWO SEPEARATE threads for "in rainbows" to figure this out!

"What Radiohead's doing here is actually pretty cool. Rather than preface their new album's release with the usual three months of press ballyhoo, only to have it leak at some random time before it comes out, they've kept it completely under wraps, then essentially gone and leaked it themselves. What's more, they've turned this into a moral question of sorts, by giving us the freedom to pay actual money for what amounts to an album leak. "

so I have two questions...

this will be a pay (optional) download?
further, is this 'in rainbows' the title for a collection of tunes that have been floating around under the guise of 'Nude'?

I guess they don't need the money from album sales anyway.

Hope they tour and play in my city and more specifically play for a week outside my door. Entire discography.

Wow

Radiohead just keeps getting cooler.

the track list from the website answered this question as yes.

am i missing something here?

hayden posted "//in rainbows" last night and al the info was on there.. i talked about kid 17 on there and then someone posted a SEPARATE "kid 17" thread. we don't need the same thread over and over..

bah, I don't care about "double threads" , people come on here on different times due to "geographical location" and someone can just don't feel like checking all the threads opened during his "absence" and come here to write about something. That "something" can indeed be a kind of repetition, but hey, 2/3 threads for a "big thing" isn't too bad. Now, not all of us might consider a new Radiohead album a big thing, but from a wide prospective it is, methinks. I'm the peacemaker today. Please kill me. Well, kill this side of me. I really don't need it today.
We should make single big threads for all the bands that get too many threads opened to talk about something "that band-related".
Dino, mbv, scissor shock etc. hja ha aahhh ahjjaa.-.--.

heheh well my "Scissor shock" threads aren't for the same album :) there shouldn't even be one dino thread hahaha. but yeah.. i don't really care usually, except i'm occassionally on dialup and it sucks to have to open like 2 or 3 different threads on the same topic to see all the discussion. ah well.

I knowww, mine is just a sneaky way to further advertise your band :D
Actually, yeah, going through more than a single thread to read things might be annoying, but I guess you (you=whoever does it) must be interested enough in the discussed matter to do so, and that should overcome the annoyance... unless the content of the thread is kinda shitty/unrelated to the matter you care for (which happens quite a lot on here, but can be fun too, aaaaand looks just like what I'm doing right now, shame on me). Look, I'm so politically correct today, I just threatened a mosquito that was biting me instead of squishing it straight away, ha!

you're a good man.

actually i checked and you were right.
but if i was a radiohead fan, and i saw a thread called '//in rainbows' i dont think i would open it cause that wouldnt mean fuck to me.
;)

Wow, is Radiohead the new Sonic Youth? Wonder what's going on at ateaseweb.com...

I'm dissapointed with Radiohead's take on this new album. Why can't they just release it on a normal cd? Do they think they are too good for that? And for those who want to desperately hear the new music, they are forced to either download it in a lossy format or wait a few months for it to come out on cd? How very dissapointing.

what if the "digital download" was in flac?
and besides that, how can this be disappointing since it's what happens with every single record out there? First digital leak (this time kinda "authorized" and hopefully much better done than the shitty rips people "who want to desperately hear the new music" gladly download), then regular album out. Nothing strange there, it's just that they don't have/"use" a label and distribution as of now. I don't see many differences between this and the usual "releases' path", I don't even see this as a "groundbreaking" thing, it might be a bit strange that a band with millions of fans is doing this, but it's nothing THAT special imo.

hmmm..

well, CD is pretty much dead (though Radiohead are probably one of the only bands who actually sell CD's still, which is curious), so this may be the wave of the future.

whatever. it's really.. i mean, the whole thing seems kinda shadey and it relegates the album from "HOLY SHIT THIS IS A BIG DEAL!" to "oh, yeah, a new radiohead album woohoo." not sure why, exactly; i guess it's just hard to get excited over a download. Just doesn't seem to have that much excitement attached to it, unlike the past few Radiohead albums -- but, then again, maybe that's the point. Radiohead's experiments don't always work, but they could be onto something here. I'm sure the album will be good either way.

Yeah, being labelless has afforded them a certain kind of freedom, I do hope something comes out of this, it could change the way music is acquired... Could...

the songs won't be really new to me. seen them twice in amsterdam in 2006. songs on the album played:
house of cards
weird fishes/arpeggi
15 step
bodysnatchers
nude
jigsaw falling in place (former open pick)
videotape

leaves faust arp and reckoner as new songs to me.

still curious though.