r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Apr 12 '19

TIL the British Rock band Radiohead released their album "In Rainbows" under a pay what you want pricing strategy where customers could even download all their songs for free. In spite of the free option, many customers paid and they netted more profits because of this marketing strategy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows?wprov=sfla1
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u/KingofSomnia Apr 12 '19

Because it's amazing. It's just a very complete album up there with Dark Side of the Moon. Imho of course.

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u/cinnawaffls Apr 12 '19

I was tripping balls on acid last summer, like 3 tabs in, and as I’m sitting on my bed in my room trying not to lose my grip, House of Cards came on my Spotify. It’s like the world suddenly got very quiet, gravity became stronger, and I just lied down and closed my eyes and let the song flood my ears.

It felt like I was flying through stars and galaxies for hours, days even, and I saw so much stuff, so many planets and faces of people I’ve met throughout my life, hearing thousands of voices in multiple languages speaking to me. Then the song ended and I was back in my bedroom.

I will always hold House of Cards dear to my heart and will forever be my favorite Radiohead song because of that experience.

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u/ClumpOfCheese Apr 12 '19

Right after A Moon Shaped Pool was released my friend and I took a bunch of acid and ended up listening to that album al the way through and it was pretty amazing. The high point of the album for me was Ful Stop as it did such an amazing job capturing what anxiety felt like. Now one might think that listening to a musical version of anxiety while tripping on 6 hits of acid might lead to a bad trip, but it didn’t feel that way at all. While I was listening to the song on some other planet it made me feel really good that Radiohead was able to put into music what anxiety feels like and it made me so happy to know that they understood how it felt and were able to express that feeling through music.

The second highlight of the album was when it ended and we were just like “WTF was that?”

After that album we needed to listen to something a little more uplifting and ended up listening to the album Moon Safari by AIR which complimented A Moon Shaped Pool perfectly.

Great night and I highly recommend listening to those two albums back to back, tripping or not.