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their website, you will note how choked their servers are at the moment.
If this really happens, what Radiohead is doing is game-changing in digital music distribution. This is, indeed, what we were discussing earlier about a new music ecosystem based on Honor Given For Honor Received!. What a bold and great step by one of the most provocative and defining music groups of the 1990s with staying power into the modern digital era. We should all celebrate and support this effort as it unfolds for the breakthrough undertaking that it represents.
Note what Lefsetz says about it in his Sept 30 blog Radiohead In Rainbows. Here are some quick Lefsetz take-aways in his inimitable style:
1. "It's not like Radiohead's living in a different world. But they're playing by a different rule book. One that says the money flows from the music, that people have to believe in you, that you've got to treat them right.
2. This is big news. This says the major labels are fucked. Untrustworthy with a worthless business model. Radiohead doesn't seem to care if the music is free. Not that they believe it will be. Because believers will give you ALL THEIR MONEY! [emphasis added]
3. This is the industry's worst nightmare. Superstar band, THE superstar band, forging ahead by its own wits. Proving that others can too. And they will...They're THINKING FOR THEMSELVES!
4. What did that button say back in the sixties? "Question Authority"? That's what Radiohead is doing here. They're not holding back, saying their hands are tied, but are forging into the future.
5. ...you can make a record all by your lonesome, it doesn't cost that much. And you can say exactly what you want, you don't need to clean it up for Wal-Mart. And, you can distribute it yourself online. That's what Radiohead is doing.
6. Will they do it themselves? ...will they leave ALL that money on the table? Shit, that would blow MY mind." Lefsetz
In addition, you should check out once again the representative sampling of Radiohead Videos that Beradley posted as his first ever Friday Videos of The Week Selection. His choice of Radiohead was serendipitous.
Watch this space as Music Ecosystem II unfolds at our Nightschool For Entrepreneurs.
i hella called that too!
You can also pay whatever you want for it.
from 0.00 to whatever.
chaaa!
I provide a quick read below of Lefsetz' latest rant which is right on the mark:
This reinforces the views expressed earlier that part of the new model will depend on how diligent the Artists and their trusted Facilitators are in establishings and maintaining an on-going two-way communication/interaction with their fans .