The motivation behind Radiohead offering customers the choice to pay whatever they wanted for ‘In Rainbows’ (which included an option to pay zero) is not entirely clear: was the band already rich enough to just give it away? Was it all part of a brilliant (and ultimately successful) marketing strategy to get attention for the record? Was is a strategic move taking advantage their predominantly white middle-class audience, knowing they would potentially pay even more than the standard retail price of CDs due to the middle-class guilt phenomenon (post-modern condition where the sufferer experiences a collective embarrassment of riches resulting in attempt to compensate)?… Or maybe they just like giving out free shit as much as everyone else likes getting it.
Amidst an ongoing flurry of rumours about a new Radiohead album, the band are giving fans something to tide them over until the rumours come to fruition: “Radiohead – Live in Praha”, a DVD that is now available as a free download. The fan-made DVD was filmed during a performance in Prague last August, where over fifty attendees were given cameras to tape the footage UPDATE: with footage put together from videos people made with their own cameras. More than 60 people contributed sharing their videos.
Download from this website for free.
Trailer:
Via CoS
