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• On the post: David Byrne Breaks Down New Business Models For Musicians; Confirms Radiohead's Success

  

  Aitala ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2007 @ 08:16am

  Re:

  Actually he said that most of the environmental impact is from the audience coming to the concert.
  
  Also, check today's post on radiohead.com about what they are doing for their next run of concerts.
  
  Eric

• On the post: David Byrne Breaks Down New Business Models For Musicians; Confirms Radiohead's Success

  

  Aitala ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2007 @ 08:13am

  Re: Re: Digital sales

  I just wanted to make sure no one was under the impression that the digital sales of 'In Rainbows' was greater than the sales of the previous physical albums.
  
  It could be misunderstood if read quickly...
  
  Eric

• On the post: David Byrne Breaks Down New Business Models For Musicians; Confirms Radiohead's Success

  

  Aitala ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2007 @ 07:13am

  Digital sales

  I think Thom said that they made more from 'In Rainbows" than all the DIGITAL sales of all the other Radiohead albums combined.
  
  Listen to the audio interview...
  
  Eric

• On the post: Getting Millions Of People Listening To Your Music, With Many Giving You Money Voluntarily, Is Dumb?

  

  Aitala ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2007 @ 08:01am

  Videos

  Folks mentioned making videos and production costs... Radiohead managed to handle both pretty well. They made their own videos and it looks like they produced the album in their own studio...
  
  See http://youtube.com/radiohead
  
  EMA

• On the post: If Someone Is Going To Exploit Intellectual Property On Toys Of Weapons, Why Not The Gov't?

  

  Aitala ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2007 @ 06:11am

  Re:

  Actually several companies (Boeing & Sikorsky) have been going after the scale modeling companies for just such royalties. On planes that were paid for by the US tax money...
  
  And quite frankly this is doing a lot of harm to the hobby...
  
  Eric Aitala