{"id":23,"date":"2007-10-15T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-10-15T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T20:35:32","slug":"3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"3&pound;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"misc\/rainbows.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"In Rainbows\" \/> For those that have been off-line last week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\" title=\"Radiohead\">RADIOHEAD<\/a> released their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrainbows.com\">new album &#8220;In Rainbows&#8221;<\/a> as a <em>pay as much as you think it&#8217;s actually worth<\/em> digital download. As I enjoyed their music for more then a decade I was happy to learn that they chose such a consumer friendly approach with this release.<\/p>\n<p>Some might argue that three quid are not overly generous, but I find the release to be somewhat reduced: The songs come as 160 kbits\/s mp3 files, which is pretty much as low as you can go &#8211; I would not even have considered purchasing a 128 kbits\/s release. While I would have preferred a &gt;=192 kbits\/s (or even a <a href=\"http:\/\/flac.sourceforge.net\/\" title=\"Free Lossless Audio Codec\">FLAC<\/a>) release, I have to admit that the sound quality is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are unhappy about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/31645\">lack of an official cover<\/a> you can easily help yourself with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\/journal\/cover-art-for-in-rainbows\">large collection of inoffical ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it&#8217;s a wonderful album and although it&#8217;s not as &#8220;complicated&#8221; as the previous ones (and I really enjoyed that complexity) it still is a RADIOHEAD album and I am happy to hear that the online release seems to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigwise.com\/news\/37670\/exclusive-radiohead-sell-12million-copies-of-in-rainbows\">success<\/a>. One can just hope that other artists get the message that people will actually pay a realistic price for high quality music if you give them the freedom to listen to it any way they want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those that have been off-line last week: RADIOHEAD released their new album &#8220;In Rainbows&#8221; as a pay as much as you think it&#8217;s actually worth digital download. As I enjoyed their music for more then a decade I was happy to learn that they chose such a consumer friendly approach with this release. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}