Eh… Not a fan of Radiohead at all. I think what they are doing is cool, but I don;t like their music.

Fantastic record. Draws the very best from OK Computer and Kid A.

And FUCK Kid A haters. Evidence of Kid A’s coming was in a few of OK’s songs; that slight electronic ambiance that they threw in from time to time made OK Computer what it was.

Brilliant.

I don’t much care for Radiohead, but major props on releasing this for free.

Changes my views on what Radiohead are. Always thought of them as scenster fucks exploiting groupthink college students for bank.

Yeah! I just got this last night - and it’s fantastic! Who said it was FREE?! Pay as much as you can to encourage this sort of model.

-OK Computer came out in 1997

-Kid A is fantastic

-This album is great.

@Alex: the thing I like about In Rainbows is that it does the OK Computer/Kid A electronic stuff and some good guitar stuff like material on The Bends.

Hell yes to Reckoner. This album struck me, like many of Radiohead’s albums, as pretty sleepy at first. This distressed me somewhat as music is usually one of my chief tools for staying awake and productive. Fortunately I recently found my groove with this album and man is it some delicious fuel for the midnight fire.

DESIGNERWHITE WROTE: “Who said it was FREE?!”

RADIOHEAD WROTE: “No really, It’s up to you.”

So paying nothing counts as well (and works as well).

Definitely my favorite band, along with Boards of Canada. Really impressed with this album, following closely behind Kid A. Seeing them live is something rather extraordinary.

thanks for the typo alert, ADB, and very good way of describing the album.

what did y’all pay for the album? i got the boxset. as for my thoughts on the album itself, i wasn’t blown away at first listen, but listening to it more, it gets better. im not in complete agreement with the previous posters that this is the best ever, but it is good and i may change my mind later.
i remember feeling the same way about Hail to the Thief and i ended up enjoying that a lot in the end. i enjoyed the whole evolution from OK–>KidA–>Amnesiac, and i think i set high expectations for HTTT.
I’m really liking Reckoner and Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

I ended up paying four pounds for it. Why just four pounds? Well, because the MP3 quality is stuck at 160kbps. That just ain’t enough.

I want the CD, because I am wed to physical possessions. (If I weren’t, I’d have illegal copies of every DS game ever made.) Downloading is fine for discovering a new band or finding a one-hit wonder, but I gotta have that plastic disc and listen to it from beginning to end while looking at the art.

But I don’t want it enough to pay 40 pounds and get a couple of fragile vinyl slabs shipped overseas in the bargain, so I guess I’ll wait. After OK Computer and How Am I Driving? and Kid A, I would have gladly sucked it up and paid the 81 bucks, but Hail to the Thief left me pretty cold.

At least if I end up not being able to buy it on CD at CD prices, I’ll be able to eventually download someone’s ripped copy at a higher bitrate thatn 160.

Rumas you are awesome.

PS Kid A is still the best radiohead album. lol

but OK Computer and In Rainbows are truly amazing. Honestly they are almost at the level of Kid A for me. Almost.

Woot! I completely forgot about this after I heard about it. Thanks for the actual linkage, otherwise I probably would have completely missed it.

I agree that the subtler songs really make the album into something special, a sort of pop record but in Radiohead’s antipop, multiple-listens way. The songs all stand very well on their own, but I struggle (Like I still do with Amnesiac) with how the album comes together on as a whole. Its there, but I don’t how the references to the german play Faust relates to the progressive bad-relationship theme of all the songs.
What I do know is that Jigsaws Falling Into Place really brings the energy to what is the climax of the album, and I’m a sucker for that kind of energy near the end of the album (Like Hail to the Thief’s closer Wolf at the Door, which uses a weird rap/singsong style to really into view that the thief is a terrily corrupt politician or policeman, but the constant fear for your children’s future paralyzing your beliefs). I love how Jigsaws Falling Into Place starts with Thom cooly mumbling about a sort of perfect first date expereince that “just” gets interupted at the best moment, and then he later starts yelping about words being “A sawed off shotgun” and the pace has increased tenfold. Really brings the album to a close for me, where is a wonderful look at the aftermath, a beautiful goodbye.

Now you may preview all the tracks of Radiohead album ‘In Rainbows’ at the site Radiohead In Rainbows. These are all in Yuo Tube format, so load easily from the site itself.

meh, i dont really like radiohead much. im more into muse.

Ha HA!! There is a minimum price. Have at you! It’s one british penny.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/radiohead-album- price-tag-its-up-to-you/
Nice find on the youtube site greg!

There’s no minimum or maximum price. I put 0.00 as my price and got the album for nothing. I didn’t even input credit card information. I’m going to buy the cd as soon as it comes out (the 40 pound discbox is a little too much for me)

Well that’s quite odd. I only remember pressing Play It Loud once.

I think I like Weird Fishes the most on this album.

I like the album. Also, i’ve read that their “price it your way” deal kinda bombed, and the majority of the people were paying really low. Even the fanatic radiohead fans. But they also got a lot of publicity out of it, so maybe it will help increase their fan base.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zOQq2N3xA this is too funny-retarded to not show you all.

IT SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SS

DESIGNERWHITE WROTE: “Ha HA!! There is a minimum price. Have at you! It’s one british penny.”

Your source is wrong. There is no minimum price. Fill the price with 0.0 (no pound and no penny) and it will work as well as paying any other price. Just try it.

This album is good, but I like Amnesiac and Kid A best probably. Thought OK Computer is great too.

You can get it for zero, if you want, that’s true. I know quite a few people who have. I’ve not downloaded it or listened to it at all yet, so I can’t really comment on that aspect.

Personally, I’m finding that the whole thing has left a sour taste in my mouth. Essentially, Radiohead did a controlled leak of their own material (they were very adamant about having zero previews, streams or promos) and planned to release it on CD all along. Which would have been cool if a lot of people didn’t actually decide to pay for the downloads to help “support” the band, a good deal of which were clearly under the impression that the discobox and downloads would be all that would be released given the PR and media push. Media coverage of this and the assumptions made and pushed by various outlets to that effect made that concept even stronger than it might have otherwise been. Maybe it would have been smart to expect a CD version to be released separately, but every one of note seemed too caught up in the “political” ramifications of it all.

Bands have done purposeful leaks before, the difference here is that Radiohead (and the media’s take on their actions) basically misled many people (I’m aware some people paid nothing for it) into paying for it along with a ton of media hype (the average person online probably has heard more about this release than their last one) and a lot of ideas and editorials stating that this was a new, great, revolutionary, fight-the-man way to take on album releases. Is this the media’s fault? Partially, but no one ever attempted to dissuade them.

Funny that now they’re reportedly in talks with the major record labels to put it out in every store with extra content. Some new method.

Curses! That’s diabolical. I hope everyone paid some decent amount. Otherwise I’m forced to call you an RIAA lover and fart in your general direction.

I don’t see how anyone’s being misled - you can buy the discbox from the website if you want.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5467/news/music/ report_radiohead_goes_platinum
Looks like a success if this story’s true. It’s usually 10-20 cents per album when you’re on a label. If you’re lucky.

I just do not understand people who do not like radiohead but do like bands like coldplay, muse, etc. It is essentially liking radiohead’s material from about ten years ago, but not as good.

thank you, ADB.

i once heard somebody say coldpaycheck. how good is that?

@n rumas

Have you read Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs? In his opening essay, he writes about “fake love” and how Coldplay is a “mediocre photocopy of Travis, which was a mediocre photocopy of Radiohead.”

The rest of it is great as well.

Then Chuck Klosterman goes on to say how Kid A is the soundtrack for 9/11. FrEAkY!

never read it. that’s totally spot on, though.

when i first heard coldplay, i thought it was a complete copy of bends-era radiohead with more fuzziness. and that dude’s voice. gah. i always thought he completely modeled it after thom yorke and (gasp) dave matthews.

:P

I enjoyed this immensely. As for what to pay, I too was disappointed with the bitrate but also thought it was worth buying, less the cost of CD manufacturing. Definitely worth a few bucks anyway.

Tony:

Be careful - A lot of people saw the ‘news’ on Gizmodo and subsequently Digg that Radiohead would release a CD with the Big Four, and the manager’s comments about it being a promotional tool, as some sort of betrayal.

There are two reasons why you shouldn’t jump on the backlash bandwagon.

1) Radiohead had said before the release of the digital download that they planned on an eventual CD release in 2008. This was not a surprise to anyone paying attention, though the soundbite hype of destroying the labels on, again, Digg and other sites, may have drowned out this information for many people.

2) The download is still available for whatever you want to pay for, and it is what will still be considered the ‘full’ album. No promises that have been made have been broken. The backlash you’re feeling is your own preconceptions about the CD being the ‘proper’ release–essentially the very fiction that you were excited about this release dispelling.

I have no plans to buy the CD, and see no reason for feeling betrayed. Radiohead deserves a lot of recognition for doing something unprecedented with distribution, even if there’s a parallel ‘normal’ method planned.

Above that, they deserve recognition because, damn, the album is really good, and any music lover shouldn’t lose sight of that in the hype/backlash internet-echo-chamber.