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UPDATED: Red. Yellow. Pink. Green: Radiohead to release new record in 10 days

No hoax, it would seem. Radiohead have announced that they shall digitally release their new record In Rainbows in ten days time (October 10) with YOU deciding how much it's worth. A Discbox release of the record follows on December 3. A 'traditional' format release of the record is also scheduled for early 2008.

Posting on Radiohead's official site Jonny Greenwood's message simply says:

"Hello everyone.
Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days;
We've called it
In Rainbows.
Love from us all.
Jonny"

Pre-order the record from HERE.

In Rainbows runs as follows:

'15 Step'
'Bodysnatchers'
'Nude'
'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi'
'All I Need'
'Faust Arp'
'Reckoner'
'House Of Cards'
'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'
'Videotape'

...with the following additional Discbox of material (2xLP, CD, extras (pictured)) featuring:

'MK 1'
'Down Is The New Up'
'Go Slowly'
'MK 2'
'Last Flowers'
'Up On The Ladder'
'Bangers And Mash'
'4 Minute Warning'

Out of curiousity

how much is anyone downloading going to pay? I'm not the hugest Radiohead fan but am tempted just because I could get it for nowt

I hope that Bangers and Mash

is a cover of the theme to the cartoon.

£40 for the "discbox"!

Which isn't the end of the world for a hardbook book, 2 CDs and the album on two heavyweight vinyl records. Buuuut... I'll read the book once and I don't own a record player, so I kind of wish a slightly 'stripped down' alternative' existed...

It's quite canny of them though. People can say this is the future, mind, and they'd be lying. You'd kind of need to be as big as Radiohead first...

If you just want the music

Pay nowt, download it onto your computer, burn it onto a CD and do whatever takes your fancy for the artwork.
I do hope there is a simple CD though, even if it is a double album, since some people (as backwards as it may seem) don't have the internet, y'know...

.

ipaid 10 pence

There will be

a cd version i'm very very sure. This is just a pre order hysteria which goes hand in hand with radioheads hype. I've falledn for it along with my mate at work haha. £40!

Well

Being a Radiohead nut, I kind of want the second disc as well, which is the USP of the Discbox edition...

And I realise

I could bootleg it off someone when it comes out, but I kind of believe in paying artists. I'm so old-fashioned...

i dont understand?

cd

apparently the normal cd release will follow early next year... maybe they still need to hook up with a ditributor for that one.

just as i was losing faith in them after they played V

they make me smile once more.
Now let's pray it's decent.

looking forward to this

hope its good

Arpeggi?

Where's Arpeggi?

Oops.

Me Am illiterryitate. Hurrrrrr. Weird fishes indeed...

I paid

A penny!

I don't have 40 quid, but if its awesome, I may spend out.

there are live bootlegs of about 2/3rds of these songs on the various fansites

sadly Bangers'n'Mash is not said theme tune :(

So

if for some reason i was to download a torrent of this album from elswhere...would i still be breaking the law?

Im confused.

Is this...

one of those things where you’ve gotta be all like:

"hey man, i’m gonna actually buy it for £10 just to show how uber cool i am to pay for my music blah blah".

You would have to be an idiot to actually pay anything other than nothing for this. So this is just a stupid idea.

hmmm ok

so if i get it for free then pay £40 in december, an i still one of those?

...

I totally agree with you on all your points, i will download, but as to how much to pay, i really dont know.

I mean, why’d you go with a fiver and not say £4 or £6?
Why not just say the album is free?

The only reason I'm even considering downloading it free

is that the Discbox is overpriced.
It's 95% certain right now that I'll get that as well, so I think it's pretty fair to get the download free as a sort of 'pre-order' bonus.

Downloads have no tangible value anyway. I dislike downloads, and I've only ever paid for a download when it's the only means through which something has been available.
If I can get it on CD, I will.

There's going to be an awful lot written about what this 'means' for the industry

and most of it will be shite.

For instance, NME says this will get people talking about what albums are 'worth' and what people are prepared to pay for them. The fact that you get the same record whether you pay £0 or £1000... it's not rocket science is it? And it has nothing to do with how much people want to pay for a Radiohead album, or any album for that matter.

I think it's quite a cool thing to do, but watch all the pseuds come out of the woodwork to fill column inches...

The thing is

that if you want to pay them some money, there's a 45p surcharge.

i think this

is a really cool idea, on the whole. more bands should sidestep majors like this.

in my opinion...

the most important album of the year.

i'm beside myself.

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS EVAR

Is it me

or is this not working anymore? I went and had a look at lunchtime and it was slow but showed details about the download and discbox, but now it just links to their website, deadairspace.

How awesome of them.

Yes

I've finally got round to checking it out and it isn't working for me either. Alas. Either way, I probably won't pay much for it, if anything at all (despite Radiohead being one of my favourite bands) because I don't like downloads - but hopefully there'll be a standard price physical release at some stage.

they

have stopped it for now as the site is getting overloaded. will be back up

ooooh

how v exciting :D

I now adore this band more than I ever thought I could

This has been a perfect day.
I have paid £0.00p and will buy the album when it comes out next year, no matter how good/shit it is.

Discbox

is on it's way to me.
fark
yes
afer meeting Warren Ellis, this has easily been the highlight of my year.

any help?

i entered the value 0.00p and it took me to the secure buying thing, i gave them my registery email detail thigns and then it took me to the credit card detail page and i got confused and went back, tried to do it again and it said "you cannot get more than 1 download". So i'm not sure if i actually got it or not.

You know,

legally getting this for free has made me feel more guilty than I would have had I got it for free illegally.

Funny you should say that

Pitchfork wrote:

"What Radiohead's doing here is actually pretty cool. Rather than preface their new album's release with the usual three months of press ballyhoo, only to have it leak at some random time before it comes out, they've kept it completely under wraps, then essentially gone and leaked it themselves. What's more, they've turned this into a moral question of sorts, by giving us the freedom to pay actual money for what amounts to an album leak."

yeah :(

I paid the 40 quid straight away

i'll have the download and have boxset to look forward to as an early xmas present.

They are really very clever. I can't wait to hear the studio version of Nude as ive waited years. Cant belive its coming out on the 10th. This is mental. Total genius. So long as it pisses on Hail to the Thief which didnt last for me, thats a good start... i reckon its gonna be hot shit.

On The Cheep

I think it's pretty reasonable to get the downloaded version free if you intend to buy any physical format, since you'd be really ripping yourself off if you bought it twice. Especially if it really is gonna cost £40 quid for the physical format. I mean, with no record label to take a cut, Radiohead are already making a pretty profit of their more hardcore fans.

Plus, apparently, they need my mobile number to give me music that, effectively, in about two hours, will be all over the internet for free anyway. Oh well.

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