[A2k] what fans paid for radiohead's album

[Gavin Baker]

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FYI: The band has said those numbers are "purely speculative" and
"wholly inaccurate".

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071111-radiohead-controversy-shows-limits-of-knowledge-in-an-information-age.html

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10125466
>
> the economist doesn't do the maths too well. they complain that only 4%
> paid >$12 (12% paid $8-$12). but let's assume that radiohead would have
> had exactly as many CDs _sold_ at $20 as they had downloads (a very
> optimistic assumption). in that case, just with 12% paying about $10,
> they've earned at least as much as they'd have earned if everyone had
> paid $20 each, and they got  6% royalties on the retail price. i don't
> think many bands get 6% on retail, not even radiohead...
>
> since almost certainly number of downloaders is higher than the number
> that would buy a CD, in reality they may well have earned much more this
> way than through CD sales.
>
> i'm assuming in turn, of course, that radiohead gets to keep almost 100%
> of the voluntary payments made for the downloads.

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