{"id":898,"date":"2007-10-01T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-01T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T09:17:23","slug":"music-distribution-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-distribution-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Distribution:  The Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5js0CSf4Nwc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Radiohead<\/strong> has announced it plans to let its fans decide how much they want to pay for their new album, due out <strong>October 10<\/strong> &#8212; from nothing for a digital download (in exchange for registration information, of course) to a shitload of cash for a fancy boxed set featuring all kinds of pointless rubbish.  Between these two extremes, fans are being asked to pay what they think is fair for a copy of the CD, which will be shipped to them, as I understand it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2007\/10\/01\/bcnradio101.xml\" title=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2007\/10\/01\/bcnradio101.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Check out the following story for more information<\/strong><\/a>, then tell us:<\/p>\n<p>a) Is this clever stick-it-to-the-man-in-the-21st-century-ism?<br \/>\nb) Does this kind of shit totally fuck things up for bands who haven&#8217;t experienced multi-platinum success yet, and thus don&#8217;t have the luxury of being &#8220;revolutionaries&#8221;?<br \/>\nc) Are Radiohead simply recognizing the fact that musicians are going to have to go back to making a living like the glorified minstrels they really are, after an 80-year run of technology- and marketing\/distribution-fueled good luck?<br \/>\nd) How much, if anything, would you pay for Radiohead&#8217;s new album?<br \/>\ne) How much, if anything, would you pay for (insert name of your fave band here)&#8217;s new album, if offered in the same fashion?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses&#8211;especially yours, Berlyant (you over-rationalizing, thieving, music-murdering turd).<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead has announced it plans to let its fans decide how much they want to pay for their new album, due out October 10 &#8212; from nothing for a digital download (in exchange for registration information, of course) to a shitload of cash for a fancy boxed set featuring all kinds of pointless rubbish. Between <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-distribution-the-next-generation\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}