Most Fans Paid 0$ for In Rainbows… well Duh.
What did you expect would happen if you offered your album up for free? Probably the same thing that would happen if you didn’t.. those same people who would pay $0 would just torrent it. I’m sure people even still “illegally” downloaded the free album from some other site, instead of just paying nothing for it ont he Radiohead site. It’s so hard to break old habits. But according to NME, Radiohead still made out better than Hail to The Thief.
According to Music Ally, Jane Dyball, head of business affairs at Warner Chappell (the publishing company that oversaw the release of ‘In Rainbows’), refused to reveal the average price people were downloading the album for.
However, Dyball, set to speak about the release at the Iceland Airwaves conference later, explained that Warner Chappell and Radiohead’s management were monitoring the average price daily, and was prepared to cancel the download facility if the average price became too low.
The download facility was taken down after three months, and the album went to Number One in the UK and USA after being physically released.
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