This has been bubbling in the UK media for about a week or so…and now Boing Boing has picked it up – Radiohead’s management has said it only did the download-pay-what-you-want deal to boost CD sales:
If we didn’t believe that when people hear the music they will want to buy the CD, then we wouldn’t do what we are doing,’ Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management told Music Week, the UK’s industry magazine.
Questions:
-Is this just a PR stunt?
-Is it a good deed turning into a PR boo-boo for a very cool band?
-If it was a sweetener to get people to buy the CD, is that so wrong?
Maybe I am cynical about being cynical. Or I should be outraged that Radiohead tricked me into downloading an album that was part of a marketing campaign.
Grrr.
