Kim Gordon

...2:00 PM (EDT) In a recent interview, veteran musician Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth had some comments for the donation-based model popularized (but not invented) by Radiohead for the release of their album, In Rainbows in 2007. In a Guardian...

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...indie singer-songwriter was found dead at his St. Paul apartment on Friday. ... Kim Gordon wasn't a fan of Radiohead's set-your-own-price plan for "In Rainbows." Says the Sonic Youth singer-musician: "It seemed really community-oriented,...

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...Rainbows, which netted the band an instantaneous $3 million. "They did a marketing ploy by themselves and then got someone else to put it out," Gordon told The Guardian Friday. "It seemed really community-oriented, but it wasn't catered...

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...arguable that Radiohead became industry anarchists. It's also arguable, as Sonic Youth's Gordon explained to The Guardian last week, that the variable-pricing release was all a hoax. Like Lot 49's dizzy executor Oedipa Maas, it's up to...

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...the new black. Kim's main point was fairly mild, but essentially saying that Radiohead were being selfish and are making non-world famous bands look bad in comparison just makes her sound jealous and rather uninformed. First of all, the...

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...have got really good at selling records." The band could, of course, have put out the album themselves, but chose not to because, as Gordon says, "there's a whole machinery you have to build up." Radiohead did it, though, with In Rainbows,...

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