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Posted Oct. 2, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Radiohead Goes Digital, Mo Pitkins Goes Bye-Bye and Cavemen Goes Primetime
By Gari Pini
1. Radiohead has not only upset the music biz applecart, they are also stomping on the apples. The group, whose major label deal recently expired, is selling their new album exclusively as a digital download (via their own website and not iTunes) from October 10 until December 3 and you can pay whatever you want. This has set off a media analysis not seen since the sub-prime mortgage meltdown with everybody from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Post gleefully searching for the last nail in the record industry coffin. An editorial in the LA Times sees the move as "a rare show of faith in fans to pay for the things they value" while biz pundit Bob Lefsetz posts on his blog, "this is the industry's worst nightmare."
2. According to musicnation.com, New York street performer The Naked Cowboy makes $1,000 a day singing in Times Square wearing nothing but tighty whiteys and a cowboy hat. Hopefully the IRS doesn't read musicnation.com.