10:24AM Clem Bastow | Presumably Radiohead hoped there would be some fans of theirs who wouldn’t take advantage of their new album’s “
pay what you feel” gesture, but it seems most Radiohead listeners are
brazen freeloaders.
Which, when you consider that most self-confessed Radiohead fans spend their time living in fifteen-room sharehouses and eating nothing but Two-Minute Noodles and sunshine, is probably not really all that surprising.
Yesterday, about a third of fans decided to pay nothing, according to The Times daily, citing a poll of 3000 people who bought it from the website.
“I chose zero, but maybe if I had a chance to chip in $10, after I hear it if it’s great, then I would,” said one identified fan from Australia, shortly after downloading the album.
The average price chosen was £4 ($9.10) – half the typical album price on online music retailing leader iTunes of around £8 – although 67 people paid more than £10 ($22.80), according to the poll.
You can still pick up a “hard copy” box-set for about £40, but really, isn’t that option now reserved strictly for suckahs?
Word has it James Blunt was considering giving his next release away for free, but no one wanted it anyway.
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