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Originally Posted by dac
Well then you obviously just hate those songs then.
No one ever said Radiohead is against making money. The point they were trying to make with In Rainbows was that the whole business of the recording industry is messed up. They dislike the fact that the people that make the music aren't garnering the majority profits while some big wig in L.A. is making money for doing nothing. They dislike how it's the corporations that decides what is going to sell and the fact that they force bands to conform in order to make money. I don't know if Radiohead knew they would actually make more money than they normally would have, but they did know this record would change the recording industry forever.
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You completely missed the point of my post. Go back, read your last sentence; that is exactly what I am saying annoys me.
Give me a break, "change the recording industry forever"? This is what drives me nuts about diehard radiohead fans, everything they do is a groundbreaking miracle that will change the world. Guess what, in about 5 years, no one will be giving a second thought to In Rainbows. The next big marketing scheme will come around, whoever comes up with it will have fans throwing themselves to the ground in their praise, and 5 years after that, no one will give a ****.
Radiohead did nothing that will change the recording industry. People were downloading music years before In Rainbows, people will be downloading music years after. Radiohead put out a great album, and boosted their old album sales like crazy because of all the new fans who suddenly though they were the new messiah come to deliver them from the evil record labels.