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Old 04-04-2009, 07:02 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Ozarkz View Post
Radiohead made millions of dollars touring and selling records for MANY years.

They sold 1 album with this new marketing tactic and it failed hard once fans realized they got duped.
wow failed hard, 6 million dollars from the promo plus the album sales to the hardcore fans
even with the people who charged back they made like 5 times what they would have made using a standard record deal.

I wish i could fail that hard.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/157...adiohead.jhtml

btw if you bought the downloaded version and then bought the full album radio head had a refund program (to deal with the pissed off fans).

Cutting the record company out made them way more money.
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