Radiohead Free Tracks Won't Last Long

Tracks for what could easily be my favorite band, Radiohead, are available for pre-order. The album "In Rainbows" are DRM free, and you even set your own price on the band's website, www.radiohead.com. Downloads for the album begin on the 10th of this month, and the direct musician to listener model is revolutionary (even in non-marketing speak).

The music industry has hurt music as much (if not more) than its helped. The industry is a cumbersome, lumbering machine, adding little to no value to the end product (music). Given that current distribution mehthods can completely leave out "physical" product, the internet negates need for much of the "value" a label would bring.

Apparently not for long though. Billboard reports that Radiohead managers are quickly coming to conclusion that the CD needs a label. "The band think they [are] incredibly proud of this record and feel that it deserves to be brought into the mass marketplace. That's why we need a record company who have that infrastructure to deliver the CD."

Download your DRM free tracks and set your own price soon, before a label comes in and fucks the whole process while taking half the bands cut.