Yea leave it up to a Magazine that reports on the Market and other big business activities to call Radiohead's quick $3m on their own "dumb"!


"Then Fortune calls their decision the 58th dumbest of the year. Yes, the geniuses at Fortune believe that Radiohead screwed up, because they say that 68% of people who picked up the album paid nothing, and the rest of the listeners paid an average of six bucks. But of course, Fortune has got it backwards-- Radiohead, as we noted earlier in the year, would only have earned $1 per album going through the record companies, and so they were still able to rake in twice as much at their average of $2.26 per album download.

Dumb? For the record companies, maybe-- they made exactly nothing off of Radiohead's new album. But when you consider what the band made, this distribution method makes even iTunes look dated."

CNN is obviously not going to run a story talking about how great an idea it is to leave major corporations out of your profit model. they have to serve their masters - and the masters are not the readers, and not radiohead.