radiohead.com - weird

[mjquilly]

Wow, that has got to be one of the crazies sites I've ever seen. I am doing some reasearch for a paper and read that Radiohead released their entire album, Kid A, on their website 3 weeks before it hit shelves, but I can't find any music on that site, it's not so userfriendly. There's another shot at the big label's theory that online sharing of mp3's is killing their sales - Kid A was the top selling album on the Billboard charts (the first british band to do so in 3 years) and it was released for free 3 weeks before you could pay for it. Anyone else find this site a little hard to navigate?

 

[pmark]

I don't think it was released on their web site, but that it was leaked out by someone and napster got it.

 

[mjquilly]

OK, now that I re-read the article, it looks like they didn't actually put it up on their own site, they gave the music to fan sites. But it wasn't leaked, the band did this themselves.