An Idolator Report: Radiohead “Mania” In New York City
Well, okay, it’s not as if people are already lining up outside the record shops, but one thing that’s been lost in all the punditry over In Rainbows–How much are you going to pay? Do you care about the physical object, having already collected your download code? Does “the Radiohead Generation” really “believe that music should be free”?–is the human face on all the industry projections and numbers talk.
Having already asked fearless Idolator intern Kate Richardson to travel into the depths of both online emo slash fiction communities and the Virtual VMAs, we sent her into the real world for a change, as she and videographer Alex Goldberg polled New Yorkers as to, well, whether they were buying the Radiohead record, how much they would pay, whether they would also snag the CD whenever it drops, and what they think this bodes for the future of the music industry.
