Comments on: New Moon and New Music Model http://changingway.org/2009/10/14/new-moon-and-new-music-model/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2009/10/14/new-moon-and-new-music-model/#comment-6881 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:36:37 +0000 http://changingway.org/?p=1773#comment-6881 Thanks for stopping by, SamK. There are some Radiohead fans bothered by Thom stooping to provide music for movies they don’t like (follow links to Stereogum to see comments).
I certainly agree with you that Thom doesn’t need any more money.

]]> By: SamK http://changingway.org/2009/10/14/new-moon-and-new-music-model/#comment-6880 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:23:11 +0000 http://changingway.org/?p=1773#comment-6880 Thom Yorke does not need to put a song on a soundtrack to make money, that’s silly. Radiohead made MORE money with the In Rainbows “pay what you want” model than they did for the album before it, the EMI release Hail To The Thief. In Rainbows, even AFTER the almost free release on the web (where they made money even if it had the “free option”), got to sell more than 3,5 million copies in it’s physical format worldwide. Yorke has a history in having songs in movie soundtracks, as in Clueless, Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet, Choke, A Scanner Darkly, The Prestige and recent documentary Age of Stupid. Kudos to New Moon director Chris Weitz who asked Yorke personally for a song and had his wish granted.

And Radiohead fans, yes, hate Twilight, but the song is so good, most aren’t bothered by the movie anymore. We have a new Yorke track, that’s what matters.

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