more fun with pay what you want.

[miss pretentious]

this time, saul williams is at bat...
  source.
 
 Radiohead's pay-what-you-want release of its album In Rainbows is starting to catch on. Today spoken-word hip-hop artist Saul Williams releases his album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, via his Website. Users can choose to either get it for free or offer a donation of at least $5.
 
 Behind today's release is some heavyweight help from Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor who has been a vocal supporter of releasing music directly to fans via the Web.
 
 A quick look at Williams' Web-debut of his album shows improvements over a lot of things Radiohead was chastised for, primarily offering their album at a bit rate significantly less than the 256K bps standard.
 
 The Saul Williams Website, in a Web layout similar to that of Radiohead's In Rainbows, details exactly what fans who donate or don't will get with the album. Paying users will get the album in one of either three formats, 192Kbps MP3, 320Kbps MP3 and FLAC lossless audio. The free version of the album is only available the 192Kbps MP3 version. All downloads come with a PDF of artwork and lyrics and all files are 100 percent DRM free.
 
 The release model could also be the method of choice for the next Nine Inch Nails album. Speaking to New York Magazine, Reznor, who produced the Williams album, said, "If I had [an album] that was done, I would [release] it today in exactly the same way." Nine Inch Nails is currently a free agent, as announced on the band's blog last month.
 
 Only time will tell where the In Rainbows effect might show up next.

[SalParadise]

d'loading now.. thanks chica

[miss pretentious]

Originally posted by SalParadise:
  d'loading now.. thanks chica

If I had found this at home, as opposed to at work, I'd be DL'ing as well  
 
 Let me know how it is!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Who the hell is Saul Williams?

[miss pretentious]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Who the hell is Saul Williams?

Can we just sticky note this comment and leave the artist blank, attaching it to everything not alt-country? Please?

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Who the hell is Saul Williams?

he is your father.

[manimtired]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...he's a black poet who makes college aged white kids feel "with it"

[sonickteam2]

Saul is alright.  I dont care too much for his sometimes rambling on and on, but when he decides to actually play a song, he's pretty on.
 
   but i suppose thats just a "white" guy talkin.

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by le sonick:
  Saul is alright.  I dont care too much for his sometimes rambling on and on, but when he decides to actually play a song, he's pretty on.
 
   but i suppose thats just a "white" guy talkin.

agreed. i actually prefer his ramblings (not all of them) to his music though.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by manimtired:
  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...he's a black poet who makes college aged white kids feel "with it"

Like Gil Scott-Heron, but forty years on?
 
 "Kids downloading Radiohead for free.
 (with Whitey on the moon)
 The money you spent on your 'iPhone' could feed me for a year.  
 (and Whitey's on the moon)
 Complaining about beer lines at the DAR.
 (but Whitey's on the moon)
 Spoon show moved from 9:30 club to Merriweather.
 (while Whitey's on the moon) "
 
 Brian

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Wow, Brian is on fire today!

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
   

Originally posted by manimtired:
  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...he's a black poet who makes college aged white kids feel "with it"

Like Gil Scott-Heron, but forty years on?
 
 "Kids downloading Radiohead for free.
 (with Whitey on the moon)
 The money you spent on your 'iPhone' could feed me for a year.  
 (and Whitey's on the moon)
 Complaining about beer lines at the DAR.
 (but Whitey's on the moon)
 Spoon show moved from 9:30 club to Merriweather.
 (while Whitey's on the moon) "
 
 Brian [/b]

I think I gave out my choice for post of the week yesterday.  If I did, here's my recount.

[Frank Gallagher]

**Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust**
 
 What the fuck!!!!
 
 First of all he can't think of an original way to market his stuff so copies Radiohead, and he can't even think up an original title for his 'spoken word hip hop album'so plagurises Bowie...do hip hop artist ever have one single original thought...ever

[mbg73]

I still don't see what's so revolutionary about Radiohead selling their album via download a couple months before the CD's for sale, even if they let you pay what you want.  Isn't it more or less the same as when Wilco put YHF up as a download prior to the CD being released, only they didn't charge at all?  Radiohead knew the album would leak prior to the CD release, so they just leaked it themselves and made some money off it.  Good move, but not revolutionary.  If In Rainbows was only being released as a download, and it was pay what you want, that would be interesting.  Or maybe I'm just missing something.

[vansmack]

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this here...