Radiohead, who released their last album In Rainbows basically "free" in a pay what you want fashion, has released The King Of Limbs early, and online without a major release party. Not free this time, but still cheaper than most. $9 for the .mp3 version, and $14 for .WAV files.
Anyways, the website to download the album is overloaded and you couldn't buy it if you wanted to. Guess I'll go get some animal cuts.
The unique thing about this release is that it was released worldwide. Typically releases are done in the U.S. and the U.K. first and then several months later to other places like India. The CD version will be released in May in a package with a bunch of crap in it for those that still buy that stuff.
That they didn't release it for "free" this time may be a bit of a knock on the download fans who never pay for tunes anyways. Guilting people into it I guess didn't work well enough and they still make more selling it apparently than asking for a handout.
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