New Radiohead Record in 10 days.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:59 am

kdarr wrote:
stevedood wrote:I'm a Radiohead fan like the rest of them, BUT the copy/rip-protection they put on Hail To The Thief (CD) just really pissed me off.
I bought the CD to have for my collection, but when it came time to rip the AAC files into iTunes, it came out garbled to shit, with skips, pops and stuff. I tried it on separate computers and even with Wavelab and it couldn't be imported.
I guess they (more likely EMI) were so pissed about digital copies of their music being leaked on the internet from past albums that they took a heavy-handed approach in preventing their CD from ever being able to be converted to MP3/AAC formats. And we all know about the iTunes boycott - go search for them and see what comes up.

Now, this latest-news with the "Pricelinesque" business model for the new album just puzzles me. One step back and two steps forward perhaps...
I'm guessing that the DRM on the last record pissed the band off too, hence the new delivery method that came with their "freedom".

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maybe it's yet another reason why they're not bothering with a label as well?

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:34 am

I wonder if it'll have some songs where Thom Yorke is playing his guitar against an electronic bed, and then somewhere around verse 2, the live drums and the rest of the band crescendo in.

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:23 pm

Huh, are there different versions of "hail to the thief"?, 'cause mine has no DRM sound glitchiness. Imported into Itunes with no problems at all....

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:29 pm

mertmo wrote:Huh, are there different versions of "hail to the thief"?, 'cause mine has no DRM sound glitchiness. Imported into Itunes with no problems at all....

+1

stevedood · Post by **stevedood** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:39 pm

mertmo wrote:Huh, are there different versions of "hail to the thief"?, 'cause mine has no DRM sound glitchiness. Imported into Itunes with no problems at all....

Woah! Really? Each track imported flawlessly? ..I ask this only cause there was something tracked onto the surface of my disc that throws off the laser of typical PC/Mac CD drives. It plays perfectly as an audio cd but unreadable/unrippable otherwise in either my PC or Mac (and this was with an almost brand new CD).
Specifically, it will generate MP3's/AAC files, BUT they are riddled with skips, pops, clicks, noise....kinda like the head is getting jerked around during the reading process. One look at the "Archimedes" disc surface told me there's something fishy going on...

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:04 pm

Well, I built an Itunes collection on my ex girlfriend's computer a couple years ago. Listened to "hail to the thief" many many times on my ipod from that collection, no problems. Rebuilt my whole collection from scratch on my new macbook, inherited a new ipod and to tell the truth, I don't know if I've heard that record from my newly built collection yet. I will listen to it and get back.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:23 pm

yah, i had no problem ripping my copy of HTTT to mp3s for car listening either.

mRG · Post by **mRG** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:37 am

RefD wrote:yah, i had no problem ripping my copy of HTTT to mp3s for car listening either.

there are different copies of that CD. i remember when i went to buy it flipping through the CDs in HMV, pissed that the covers stated it had that copy protection crap on it. one CD in amongst the 7 or so there didn't have all the copy protection warning stuff written on it so i bought it. no problems ripping.

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themagicmanmdt · Post by **themagicmanmdt** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:43 pm

i had the special edition one (the one with the AWESOME poster) - no problems.

bought it on the day it came, out too. yep. i'm a radiohead nerd.

maybe it was just the regular versions?

or maybe just not the initial run versions?

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:48 pm

RefD wrote:
dwlb wrote:
RefD wrote:
ipressrecord wrote:http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex.html

I guess that they don't need a record label any longer. ???
pretty much no one does, really.
Though people who have been on record labels for 15 years and sold millions of albums need labels less than people no one has ever heard of.
that'd be true even if they'd reached that point without a label, tho.

Who reaches that point without a label? I mean really, viva la revoluci?n and all that, but who's got the marketing budget to achieve that level of popularity by themselves? It's kinda the big lie of the internet era: sure, bands can distribute music without a label now, but if no one hears about it they'll still be kinda nowheresville.

scott macdonald · Post by **scott macdonald** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:11 am

I'm listening to the new Radiohead right now. Yay.

Gummy · Post by **Gummy** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:52 am

Me too, I woke up and decided to check. Wow.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:45 am

Oh yeah. I remember being very impressed by some of these new songs when I saw them at the Tower in Philly June 2006. Listening right now... on NS-10Ms.

I have to say that the MP3 encoding that they used sounds pretty damn good to me. Better than normal "leaked" quality, fo sho.

PeterSawatzky · Post by **PeterSawatzky** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:20 am

First impression: this record sounds beautiful.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:33 am

PeterSawatzky wrote:First impression: this record sounds beautiful.

+1

ps: It better, as I paid ?40 for it!!!

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