Saturday, December 15, 2007

Study: Free Beats Fee for Radiohead's 'In Rainbows'

Of those who downloaded Radiohead's digital album, In Rainbows last month, about 62 percent walked away with the music without paying a cent, reported ComScore, an Internet research company.

This study is really sorta scary for all the signed musicians and bands out there and to say the least the record companies! Humm.............read on......

About 17 percent plunked down between a penny and $4, far below the $12 and $15 retail price of a CD. The next largest group (12 percent) was willing to pay between $8 and $12--the cost of most albums at Apple's iTunes is $9.99. They were followed by the 6 percent who paid between $4.01 and $8 and 4 percent coughed up between $12 and $20...
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9811013-7.html

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