EXCLUSIVE: SECRET THOM YORKE IN RAINBOWS CHAT INTERCEPTED!!!

SergeantYorke: well actually we will make the first disc available to download for whatever price you want. we will also be selling a discbox for about $80 which features a

robert_digital: WHOA FREE ALBUM

SergeantYorke: not a single person has let me finish that sentence so far

SergeantYorke: but still, with this decision we plan to make history and revolutionize music forever

SergeantYorke: was it purple rain or the black album or joshua tree

SergeantYorke: all right then nobody cares about your ninety billion other albums that all sound like the year 1991 farting

SergeantYorke: pffft

Sufjan_Succotash: look at it this way

say your album's worth $20 but you give it away for free. it will knock down consumer expectations across the board

Sufjan_Succotash: most albums printed these days are total crap so they'll be worth a negative amount of money. anyone who owns a jack johnson album will owe the IRS like 10 bucks

SergeantYorke: well go grab a piccolo and write a song about how it relates to the simple but proud people of, like, wisconsin

**OnlineHost** Radiohead has effectively released its album for free over the Internet.

**OnlineHost** The music industry has been completely destroyed.

SergeantYorke: AAAAAAHH

LAID WASTE BY MY OWN HUBRIS

**OnlineHost** JackoffJohnson has entered the chatroom.

JackoffJohnson: GUYS I'M IN DEEP SHIT, I'M WORTH LIKE NEGATIVE 50 TRILLION DOLLARS

YOU HAVE TO LET ME HIDE OUT IN HERE

JackoffJohnson: I never heard it.