Radiohead’s recent pay-as-you’d-like strategy represents a much needed leap of faith in today’s shrinking recorded music marketplace. Young consumers are spending 10% of their disposable income on mobile services, that’s $30 less a month to spend on music, fashion etc. Something’s going to give.
So perhaps beyond piracy, Youth’s $130 billion annual spend on mobile (source [...]
You would have thought so… shackled by the rampant capitalist demands of the record labels, forced to work in sweatshop recording studios and starved until they produce their inaugural album. It’s easy to pity the poor artist, particular as it is with them rather than the content owner that the consumer has affiliation.
No wonder that [...]
It still didn’t get me to download there album, because in short I don’t like them and I find their music depressing.
But their name is plastered across every broadsheet and business masthead globally, and of course they are $10 million better off.
So, does my opinion matter?
What I have to admire RH for is the bravery [...]
