MUSICIANS and music publishers had mixed feelings about Radiohead’s experiment. The experiment involved allowing people to download and chose how they opt to pay the British band’s new album In Rainbows.

Excerpt from an AFP story:

British rock group Radiohead have drawn a mixed reaction from fans and fellow musicians with an experiment letting listeners decide the price of their latest album, reports said Thursday.

Other artists are said to be studying the novel sales strategy — labelled a publicity stunt by some — of allowing fans to pay whatever they want for “In Rainbows,” which which went on sale online on Wednesday.

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