Comments on: Pay what you want Radiohead album http://www.weatherpattern.com/2007/10/pay-what-you-want-radiohead-album/ a blog on design / culture / telecom / networks / work / life / online-offline / new york Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:24:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sonic http://www.weatherpattern.com/2007/10/pay-what-you-want-radiohead-album/#comment-37 Sonic Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.weatherpattern.com/2007/10/pay-what-you-want-radiohead-album/#comment-37 There's an interesting discussion here by an annoying cultural economics blogger, Tyler Cowen: http://onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/10/05/segments/86709 Transcript should be up soon. Anyway, he tries to defend the major labels' role as gatekeepers and investors in new acts, and says RH is only in a position to do this b/c they have been established by big labels. I doubt that, and he gives away the game by conceding that RH's imposed fee on the downloads themselves is likely more than they woudl get per cd on a standard record industry contract royalty. How long will bands continue supporting the lavish lifestyles of label royalty and taking pennies on the dollar for each cd sold????? hail to the radiohead! There’s an interesting discussion here by an annoying cultural economics blogger, Tyler Cowen:

http://onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/10/05/segments/86709

Transcript should be up soon. Anyway, he tries to defend the major labels’ role as gatekeepers and investors in new acts, and says RH is only in a position to do this b/c they have been established by big labels.

I doubt that, and he gives away the game by conceding that RH’s imposed fee on the downloads themselves is likely more than they woudl get per cd on a standard record industry contract royalty. How long will bands continue supporting the lavish lifestyles of label royalty and taking pennies on the dollar for each cd sold????? hail to the radiohead!

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