With the record industry in the toilet and CD sales plummeting, I don’t know why everyone gives Capitol a hard time for reissuing all Radiohead’s material without their permission. Capitol owns the right to do that. And Capitol employs a lot of people, so why begrudge them to make money off the act they signed and helped make into superstars?

If they left off all those outtakes mentioned above, maybe they’re saving them for a boxed set or something… doesn’t that seem inevitable eventually?

A record company commissions an artist to make a record for them the same way a furniture manufacturer will commission a designer to design a chair.

For some reason with the music biz they’re not allowed to profit off their intellectual property while every other type of industry is never questioned, even though they do the same thing.

Its a shame that Radiohead and Capitol couldn’t have parted on better terms, so maybe they’d be willing to put out more interesting products, instead of re-hashing previously released stuff over and over.

R.E.M. left IRS Records in the late 80s, but still on good terms. Even after they left IRS (to sign with Warner Brothers), the members of R.E.M. would still participate with IRS’s repackaging and rarities compilations.

I will help stimulate the economy. Bless you Capitol Records!

I’m thinking there’s a good chance that Capitol doesn’t have the rights to put those unreleased tracks onto these new deluxe editions. Either that or the rights issue might be muddy enough to warrant holding off on releasing them.

Capital pigs !!

an artist getting about $1-1.50 per unit sold is joke ! they must get $7/8.

what a scam, Amazing to see Radiohead close up shop and say goodbye to them.

meaning they the record company get $8 for every 1 or so they offer up to the actaul artist who created the music!

I wish they’d reissue the later albums (Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Theif). Much better trio in my opinion, and the b-sides to those are better too.

Probably wouldn’t buy these myself. I’d buy Kid A and Amnesiac though.

1.50-1.00 per album sold is more then fair, when you consider the millions spent on all the new artists that just flat out tank. Promotion and advertising is expensive when positioning for airplay. Not to mention that all the advances the record companies lose when new artist sales don’t take off. Now for established artist who can promote themselves more power too them, new artists, its no more different then whenever you take out a student loan or use a credit card.

The Jan ‘08 (16-01) issue of Wired features David Byrne interviewing Thom York with regard to In Rainbows. York explained that digital publication rights were not included Radiohead’s contract so even if you bought a legitimate download of previous Radiohead music the band never saw a dime! Entertainment lawyers make up to $300/hr to make sure copyright and publication laws are followed however, usually the only people in the music industry that can afford a solid lawyer are the record companies. Music contracts have never been written to support the artists, just look at how jazz and blues artists were treated following the Civil War in the birth of the recording industry.
CRASH & BURN! I say, when you consider the way music has become an industrialized commodity over the past 30 years people in the music industry as a whole should be glad they’re not in the same pit the auto industry is at the moment. Also consider the environmental impact of CDs Vs. Downloads. I think the music industry needs a serious overhaul in order to survive and make the fans feel good about where their money goes when making a music purchase.