Comments on: radiohead (again) versus emi records, a little spat… http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat music . media . web. culture Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:16:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe Wallace http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat/comment-page-1#comment-45211 Joe Wallace Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:55:17 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1146#comment-45211 Radiohead + Nine Inch Nails + Prince...hmmmmm. It's gonna be an interesting 2008, to be sure. Could 08 be the indie musician's Paris 1968? Radiohead + Nine Inch Nails + Prince…hmmmmm. It’s gonna be an interesting 2008, to be sure. Could 08 be the indie musician’s Paris 1968?

]]> By: Dave Allen http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat/comment-page-1#comment-45207 Dave Allen Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:42:42 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1146#comment-45207 Also Radiohead did stick a knife in the record industry (not just EMI) in another way too. As I wrote in a <a href="http://www.pampelmoose.com/sparks/?p=69" rel="nofollow">longer piece here</a>, they stuck it to the industry by self-releasing their album in the very quarter of the year that the music biz makes it biggest sales gains..... Also Radiohead did stick a knife in the record industry (not just EMI) in another way too. As I wrote in a longer piece here, they stuck it to the industry by self-releasing their album in the very quarter of the year that the music biz makes it biggest sales gains…..

]]> By: Dave Allen http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat/comment-page-1#comment-45206 Dave Allen Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:35:38 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1146#comment-45206 Yes, agreed. SEO being used by EMI Records to hoodwink Radiohead fans is part of the same inanity that has caused the record industry's downfall... Yes, agreed. SEO being used by EMI Records to hoodwink Radiohead fans is part of the same inanity that has caused the record industry’s downfall…

]]> By: maths http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat/comment-page-1#comment-45190 maths Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:03:31 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1146#comment-45190 It's true that Radiohead are not going to be losing much sleep over this, but this ultimately is not just about “In Rainbows” or back catalogue sales only, but about a misleading ad by EMI seeking potential customers in a search environment in which the users are hitherto uninitiated about the product. Hence the users effort to search and find out more about the product in question instead leads them trickily to another place – there are advertising laws against this practice. More details here: http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/82 It’s true that Radiohead are not going to be losing much sleep over this, but this ultimately is not just about “In Rainbows” or back catalogue sales only, but about a misleading ad by EMI seeking potential customers in a search environment in which the users are hitherto uninitiated about the product. Hence the users effort to search and find out more about the product in question instead leads them trickily to another place – there are advertising laws against this practice. More details here: http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/82

]]> By: joshk http://www.pampelmoose.com/2007/11/radiohead-again-versus-emi-records-a-little-spat/comment-page-1#comment-45178 joshk Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:00:38 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=1146#comment-45178 great example that the label and the band are NOT on the same team. although would the band really be losing if someone purchased the back catalogue by mistake. at worst its still the fans wanting radiohead content.....the same fans that will be snatching up their label free releases. i doubt the yorke camp is losing much sleep over this. slow radiohead news day? great example that the label and the band are NOT on the same team. although would the band really be losing if someone purchased the back catalogue by mistake. at worst its still the fans wanting radiohead content…..the same fans that will be snatching up their label free releases. i doubt the yorke camp is losing much sleep over this.

slow radiohead news day?

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