Remember in 2007, to much fanfare, middle-class fannies Radiohead released their latest wanky dirge-fest 'In Rainbows' (or as it, and all of their albums could easily be called, 'The World Is A Fucked Up Place Where There Aren't Enough Koala Bears To Go Round Because Governments Are Stealing From Poor People') onto the internet allowing fans to pay what they liked? The multi-millionaires derided other bands for forcing people to pay to hear their music, cos that's just like ridiculous man, spending money to make a record and getting payed for it man, it's about art man. Of course, they then released a £40 version of 'In Rainbows' with 8 extra tracks. Anyway the plain old CD + iTunes release went to number 1 in America and the UK, selling around 4 million copies worldwide. Now, the thing is a band such as Radiohead, Coldplay, U2, Oasis could afford to do something like this, and still have huge sales, but for a smaller or unsigned band this is totally ridiculous, they'd go bankrupt! Anyhoo, the main point behind all this IS that now people sharing 'In Rainbows' for free on the internet have been told to stop or risk having their blogs etc shut down. So the message is, pay 1p for our album, but only for 2 months, and only when we know about it? So, just to piss of Radiohead, here's one of their "exclusive" tracks from the £40 boxset : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUZQdZtmlT8
Don't listen to it, just click on the link, clock up some hits, piss of Thom Yorke. And that tall guy who doesn't do anything. Another reason to hate Radiohead, is that they are directly responsible for Keane. And Bloc Party. I like to think Thom Yorke is sitting right now, in his Oxford mansion (probably) listening to Bloc Party's 'Song For Clay' and it's references to foie gras and screaming "WHAT HAVE I DONE??" as a tears fall from his wonky eyes. On a side-note, 'Creep' is quite good.
On the theme of the general public being ripped off by things that are wanky, shit and overly long, there's to be a cinematic re-release of 'Avatar' (or 'Smurfahontas' as it should have been known) featuring 8 minutes of additional footage! Yes, you read that correctly. Not 80 minutes. Or 18 minutes. 8 fucking minutes. That's an extra 4% added to the running time! Or more likely a £ for every extra minute of footage. Brilliant. The film isn't even very good, it essentially teaches us that disabled people aren't real people, they'd be better off as blue cat people. AND Mr Cameron, I thought SkyNet was to have destroyed humanity by this point in the future? Poor consistency there.
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