A “store within a store” for Wal-Mart’s AC/DC exclusive. Does anyone really need to buy the new album? You can probably guess what it will sound like. Some variation on anything from Back in Black [Idolator]
Nearly a year later, sales data for In Rainbows was finally revealed. The deluxe edition moved 100,000 units. Not bad [Brooklyn Vegan]
Franz Ferdinand’s third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, will be released January 29 via Epic. Even after so much critical acclaim, the band still can’t shake the musical comparisons [Billboard]
Today is the one-year anniversary of the death of Paul Raven, bassist for Killing Joke [Flaming Pablum]
Big and Rich frontman John Rich reportedly decked Danzig bassist Jerry Montano [The Bull via Buzzgrinder]
Consider this. Radiohead sold 100,000 copies of the Deluxe Box Set that retailed for $80. That’s $8,000,000 just from the box sets alone. The album sold/downloaded in the multi-millions, resulting in a net income of undoubtedly tens of millions. If anybody doubts that the Radiohead/NIN freemium model is the way of the future after this then I’d like to hear your rational.