Of _OK Computer_ or not? On that level I do, and it's great. Tom was right to note that the subject matter and vague reachings Can I go on record as saying IД®njoy _OK Computer_ and also am a Numan fanatic? Though his most Their other stuff but a lot of it sure is pretty. Which as Nicole suggests OKC has in spades. Rock themes (fuck the system) and more importantly Big Rock sounds, To allow culture-paralysed types (not least the band) to enjoy Big I think in the end the specific content and concept are a cover story 'Cars' is a great single by the way, not so sure about the The alienation seems pretty much entirely societal (in classic rock Much crasser Grandaddy there's hardly any overt technofear on OKC. The technological themes are also a red herring - unlike with the Sometimes but Radiohead's other records are less big-picture and map To admit I do feel isolated and alienated and dislocated and all that Welcome Yorke gets into cliche and name-calling too much. Weakest record (caveat: not heard Pablo Honey) for several reasonsД«ut mostly because while albums about fear and paranoia are always Kind of - in terms of lyrical/conceptual 'meaning' it's Radiohead's I think emphasising the content is a red herring, >both (manifestly) superior musical artists and/or intellects. Okay, but you'll have to vouchsafe me a bodypart or something before I >_Metamatic_/Gary Numan's _The Pleasure Principle_ >And if you just mean, uh, scary computers'n'stuff: John Foxx's Was asked in all honesty (and much ignorance). You don't have to be sorry, you just have to answer the question. >I'm sorry: Radiohead are NOT the first people to address this issue. Now this is more like it, by all accounts. Radiohead), but it's apples and oranges to something with lyrics. Instrumental Jazz can't sound claustrophobic (and I've quite likedД«eing slipped a mickey on the last albums by Spiritualized and, erm, This doesn't sound likely to get past my 'Jazz Wank' filters.

Hang on, this is the one with classic rock chugger Garland and Page came to the undeniable conclusion that the music industry needs to stopthinking of shared files as lost sales, and start treating them as anaspect of reality upon which they can build part of their businesses.ДЄs for Radiohead, they can rest easy knowing that while their strategy will now come under increased scrutiny by enemies of file sharing within the industry, that by 'losing' the battle for the email addresses of those who downloaded their album via bit torrent, they actually won the overall war for the public's attention вЂ“ no easy feat, these days.I really must reconsider my position on the Stones as just irrelevant Applying economic principles to digital music, Garland and Page found that 'the challenge of achieving popularity (or attention) when the old rules of scarcity and excludability don't apply (to information goods) the way they used to, changes the monetization game completely.' And Radiohead clearly won that game, regardless of how many times its album was traded. Not necessarily, says the report, and we agree. Without its album being so widely traded, would Radiohead's album have shot to the top of the charts? Would their worldwide tour be such a smashing success? All of this torrenting of In Rainbows contributed to the album making such a big impression on a listening public that's bombarded with an ever-increasing amount of information. Or, to sum up by paraphrasing an earlierargument, 'popular music is popular everywhere it's popular.''Д®xactly.

The biggest selling albums and songs are nearly always the most widely pirated, regardless of all the 'anti-piracy' tacticsemployed by music companies. Rather, it finds that piracy rates follow awareness and interest. 'Yet, the company BigChampagne has made no such consistent observation in nearly a decade of analyzing these data. 'Frequently, music industry professionals suggest that an increase in legitimate sales must necessarily coincide with a commensurate reduction in piracy, as if this were a fact,' says the report. In addition, official offerings like need not be considered to be in competition with file sharing networks, as hard as that may be for longtime music insiders to comprehend.

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