Monday, October 08, 2007

OK Computer, Gimmie Free Radiohead

I think it's great that Radiohead will offer their next album (In Rainbows) to their fans for whatever price they want, yes that includes $0. The new album drops October 10th, and can be "purchased" on the bands' website. I really hope that when it asks to pay whatever you think it's worth, that people leave a reasonable donation. It's good that they are independent from any label and can do this, and if this makes them a bunch of money or not, it begs the question, are there really any true benefits of being with a label? If you think about the money they take from you for advertising, radio DJ bribing, printing, administrative costs, studio usage costs, packaging and artwork, touring costs. Most bands have to pay these recoupable expenses before they can earn their 10-15% royalty. Anyway, it seems that Radiohead is very fan friendly.

P.S. OK Computer, as of 10/8/07 is still their best album!

Friday, October 05, 2007

Inteligent Design

Made the trip to the Creation Museum http://www.creationmuseum.org/ two weeks ago. Imagine waiting in line to look at various exhibbits, then being forced through a hamster maze to end up waiting infront of a theater till the show is done to continue walking through the museum. A museum built to host 800 people daily had 3000 the day we went (a saturday). Despite me dissing the poor layout and architectual mishaps there were good parts too, my favorite being a short video that shows how quick the earth was covered in water during the flood, and a 1% replica of the/Noah's Ark.

It doesn't feel like fall yet (90's this weekend!) but I look forward to the real thing.