Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD 103
Kilrah_il writes "After having a go with a Name-Your-Price album and an open-source video, Radiohead is again breaking new ground, this time with a fan-based initiative. A group of fans went to one of the band's shows in Prague, each shooting the show from a different angle. By editing it all together and adding audio from the original masters provided by the band, they have created a video of the show that is 'Strictly not for sale — By the fans for the fans,' adding, 'Please share and enjoy.' Can this be the future of live show videos?"
Re:Nine Inch Nails did this first (Score:4, Insightful)
As Trent Reznor pointed out in an interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, this business model can only work for those who are already well established or can accept not being megastars.
Getting traction in a market flooded with crap when you don't have advertising money is a losing battle.
Good for them! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm not a Radiohead fan... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not like they were unable to download the songs later, and they paid what they thought the original tracks worth to begin with, so what is there to be pissed about? Somehow, they felt that value they paid for up front was diminished when the physical product cost less than their self-determined price? IIRC, the average patron paid about $8, so the preponderance of fans got a "good deal" (whatever that means in this context) anyway.
Re:Nine Inch Nails did this first (Score:5, Insightful)
As Trent Reznor pointed out in an interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, this business model can only work for those who are already well established or can accept not being megastars.
I have to say - that's a good thing. I'd rather 1,000 productive artists making a living wage than 10 megastars living the life of luxury. After all, being a megastar today is mostly an artifact of the monopoly on distribution enabled by the monopoly of copyright.
What I think is likely to ultimately happen though is that we'll just end up with another avenue to megastardom. People really seem to like to be the same as their neighbors, so I think one way or another they will tend to converge on a handful of artists in order to share in that common experience that comes from listening to the same music (and watching the same movies and reading the same books, etc).
I just hope that whatever new avenues to megastardom become popular, that they don't have the same level of deleterious effect on society and culture that modern copyright law has.
Re:Nine Inch Nails did this first (Score:1, Insightful)
ANY 'business model' (method of promotion) for a music artist requires an established artist and/or crapload of advertising money to work. There is still yet sadly no such thing as an artist who makes it "big" via merit virally on the internet. (Die Antwoord and those treadmill guys actually had label backing and/or were signed beforehand. Don't believe the BS that they "made it" otherwise! Do a little digging if you don't believe me.)
But the age of music superstardom has come to an end. (Unless you call American Idols and Nick/Disney kids music superstars.) Sure, we'll miss not having a new Beatles in these later days, but overall, it's probably for the best that the paradigm is shifting.
Re:Good for them! (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, I hope more bands start realizing this is the right message to give to their fans. A lot of big artists would rather tell you to go stick your head in a pig.
Re:Nine Inch Nails did this first (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think Radiohead care if they are megastars or not.
Says the 'already-Megastars' band Radiohead.
I think they would care if they were NOT already mega-stars and just starting out.
Integrity is a nice aspiration, but human nature (and the desire to acquire 'wealth' and/or fame) unfortunately isn't so glib.
Re:but in argentina... (Score:2, Insightful)