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• David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music
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  David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music

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  Finally, aside from Trent, two voices I actually care about hearing from on this issue.

  The major problem as I see it is, and the point I think Thom is making at the end is the “valuing the company or the interest of the artists rather than the music itself”.

  If you get a site where there are a list of bands you’ve never heard of with free music for download, and Britney Spears, your average punter or warez/mp3 kiddy is going to go for the recognisable brand name.

  For example, Radiohead announce that they are going to allow you to pay what you want for their album, and it is all over the front page of Digg, and practically every other ezine or publication. If ‘Scubbs Nosebleed’ [fictional unknown group - or as far as I know] announce that they are making their first/latest album available for free download, then who the hell will give a shit? Apart from the mum of the Scubbs Nosebleed’s drummer

  The music industry screws artists, sure. And the end user too. But all too often the end user screws the artist with their torrented collections, and what the artist makes mostly is from their “brand recognition”.

  With some small exceptions, the music industry and music in general is in decline, but that is as much to do with the listener and their attitudes to music as it is to do with the evils of the record companies.

  So go on, dig me down because you fucked up the quality of music.

  Bleh, Radiohead can bullshit themselves all they want but the only reason they were able to successfully sell their album online is due to a decade of advertising, exposure, and distribution deals paid for by their record company.

  If they had been a nobody band none of you would have bought it or even heard about it.

  When your screwing everyone along the chain, eventually everyone will find life easier without you.

  Labels/Studios have been screwing artists since the first record and the customer on and off since then too. Hopefully we can cut them out all together or at least reduce them to an advertising firms.

  Somebody give Mr. Yorke a razor for X-mas! He looks awful. But I guess when your Thom Yorke you don’t need to worry about how you look. As long as he keeps making great music and evolving, I don’t care how he looks, but damn!

  It’s incredible how Old Media is screwing itself over. First, there’s the obvious biases/agendas shown by the major news programs. I can’t watch them anymore, they make me want to vomit… then you have the writer’s strike where the corporations wanna screw the “idea people”. Bad choice! And here there’s music… It’s like these companies had no idea what the Internet would do for distributing the news and entertainment. Then they decided to screw all the important people and keep all of the profit. WTF? Instead of adapting, these companies are going to implode. It’s kind of reassuring, I guess. I think people should support artists and new sources that are independent with dollars and cents. The big media will die all the sooner.

  An honest interview between the two.

  featured in Wired magazine

  “David Byrne talks with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the experience.”

  Interesting article on how and why Radiohead did their album download on a pay per user

  Given Seymour knows DB, might be worth nicking hook, line and sinker?

  and had gone communist. After all, Thom Yorke and com