http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ
October 10, 2007 release of In Rainbows by Radiohead as a digital download first, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007. The album was released in North America on 1 January 2008. In Rainbows was Radiohead's first release after the end of their contract with EMI. Radiohead offered up their album for free on the open-source platform of the internet. The band allowed the user to set the price at which they would like to pay for the album in its digital form. Users could pay nothing or everything it was their decision. Radiohead realized when they were out of the control of EMI that they could subvert the fascist power cycle held by the large music giant. The album quickly became the buzz of the music industry and highlighted the end of the music industries choke hold on production and distribution. Interesting enough Radiohead continued to follow open-source ideas in the promotional materials that followed the album including using the programing language of processing for their music video for “House of Cards”
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