Gigwise is reporting that the 1.2 million copies of In Rainbows have been sold worldwide. This is apparently from a “source close to the band” so nothing official has been announced.
Head on over to Gigwise to see the article.
(thanks to Joe)
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In Rainbows album cover
We have gotten our hands on the actual album cover for In Rainbows for you to use on your iPod or whatever mp3 device you use. Many thanks to Leslie at tube.hk and radiohead.com.hk for clueing us in to this.
Update… Errr.. This may be the back of the album actually. We’re working to get the front for you asap.
Update again… We got another one (above) which is probably the actual cover. There is still confusion about which one it is which we’ll hopefully clear up for you.
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Links Roundup
Here’s a list of Radiohead-related links and stories going around the web today:
– International Herald Tribune: Radiohead Day arrives as reaction floods in to the band’s new download-only album release
– NPR: Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ Sets Its Own Terms
– Wired: Radiohead Hides Several Pots of Gold ‘In Rainbows’
– Billboard: Thousands Start Day With Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’
– Minnesota Public Radio: The day the music (industry) died?
– PC World: Big Acts Follow Radiohead’s Lead: Let Their Music Go Free
– NME: Radiohead new album: fans complain about bit rate
– NME: Radiohead: a brief history
– Rolling Stone: Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood on “In Rainbows”: “It’s Fun to Make People Think About What Music is Worth”
– Pitchfork: Greenwood’s Blood Score to Be Released on CD
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In Rainbows lyrics
Since there were no lyrics included with the download, it’s been left up to the fans to try and figure them out. We have most from live performances which you can find in our lyrics page, but we need your help with some of the unknown ones like “Faust Arp” and the totally different “Reckoner”. If you have a good ear and want to take a stab, send them on over to us. Of course, if Thom wanted to just save everyone the trouble he could post them on Dead Air Space. Just sayin’. 🙂
Jonny did an interview with Gothamist which talks about all the stuff he’s been doing lately. We definitely recommend you reading it. Here’s a snippit about the new album:
What’s motivating the band to distribute the album this way? Just getting it out quickly. It was kind of an experiment as well; we were just doing it for ourselves and that was all. People are making a big thing about it being against the industry or trying to change things for people but it’s really not what motivated us to do it. It’s more about feeling like it was right for us and feeling bored of what we were doing before.
Why give people the option to pay whatever they want? It’s just interesting to make people pause for even a few seconds and think about what music is worth now. I thought it was an interesting thing to ask people to do and compare it to whatever else in their lives they value or don’t value.
Have you gotten any figures of how much people are choosing to pay? No we get the numbers tomorrow supposedly. Yeah, I don’t know. The more exciting thing for me is just hearing it on the radio today and knowing it’s landed on everybody’s desk at the same time. That’s what’s exciting. But yeah, I’m sure our manager will have some idea soon.
And then skip down to this which will surely interest you:
Are you working out plans to tour in America at this point? We’re talking about touring somewhere in the world next year. Now that the album’s out that’s what we’re talking about. I hope you’ll get to see some good shows.
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What a day
Hopefully you all have heard In Rainbows by now. If not, go over to www.inrainbows.com and purchase (or not purchase if that’s your thing) the album. Excitement is in the air and we at GP are reminded of how wonderful it is to hear a Radiohead album without it being leaked first. It’s similar to when OK Computer was released and all we had to go by were live recordings of the songs.
Anyway, Thom wrote on Dead Air Space today:
hope you are enjoying listening to the download of In Rainbows.
its a relief to us all that finally its out there.
its been a mad couple of weeks.. as i’m sure you can imagine…
“I love pop music to death….. Most great composers rely on folk music. I rely on pop music.
I’m not saying I’m a great composer or that pop music is folk music. There’s a whole endless thing going on out there.
You make your little pond but if your pond isn’t connected to the river, which isn’t connected to an ocean,
it’s just going to dry up. It’s just a little piss pool. I’ve lived too long to be happy in a pond.”
I found this in WIRE magazine over a pint in the pub last night.. its Robert Wyatt
In other news, our server has been taking a beating over the last day. Our dedicated server also hosts Mortigi Tempo, which is our Radiohead message board. Because of all the crazy traffic, we’ve had to switch MT to a lo-fi version for the time-being so that you can still post and talk with other fans. Hopefully we’ll be back to normal soon.
Finally, what’s up with Radiohead and the number 10? Conspiracy theory or just plain silly?