{"id":198452,"date":"2007-11-07T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/radiohead-2-26-on-every-album-download\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:32:00","slug":"radiohead-2-26-on-every-album-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/radiohead-2-26-on-every-album-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead $2.26 on every album download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I commented on Radiohead <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/is-bands-moving-to-online-distrubution.html\">making their album available online and allowing their fans to pay whatever they wanted<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>After 29 days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/html_tmp\/content-view-34737-118.html\">some numbers are in<\/a>, $2.26\/album, with about $2.7 million in total sales.  The coverage, of coursee, is that this is a pittance compared to the $19.95 for a CD, but that&#8217;s not what <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">the band<\/span> gets, that&#8217;s what <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">the studio<\/span>, retailer, record executive&#8217;s coke dealer and worthless brother-in-law, etc. get, not the artists.<\/p>\n<p>Radiohead mad a lot more money in a few weeks than than they would in a few <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">decades<\/span> doing this.  I recall hearing an interview with Aimee Man, formerly of &#8216;Til Tuesday, and she releases under her own label now, but her old stuff, the stuff that made the top ten and hit MTV forever, it was still &#8220;not recouped&#8221;, i.e. she had gotten no royalties.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon is going to move down the chain, and I won&#8217;t shed a tear to see the demise of the record distributor paracites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I commented on Radiohead making their album available online and allowing their fans to pay whatever they wanted? After 29 days, some numbers are in, $2.26\/album, with about $2.7 million in total sales. The coverage, of coursee, is that this is a pittance compared to the $19.95 for a CD, but that&#8217;s not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1137,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-music","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}