Gigwise, surely you doth jest. While media pundits out there are scratching their chins, wondering just how well this kooky In Rainbows experiment will work for Radiohead, the Gigwise.com homepage is boldly displaying some pretty staggering numbers.
Namely: 1.2 million digital copies of In Rainbows sold. Average sale price: £4, making for about £4.8 million in sales that the gentlemen of Radiohead get to keep mostly for themselves. Yeah. And that's apparently not taking discbox sales (£40 a pop) or future CD sales into account. Damn.
The source on all this? An insider who's "close to the band." Ah, one of those. So take all of those figures with a healthy dose of salt for the time being. Still, if Radiohead really made out this well, they could very well deal a historic blow to the record industry, even if that wasn't really the band's intention from the start.
In other news (all Radiohead, all the time!), Stereogum has the official In Rainbows cover art for all your iTunes decorative needs (also, as seen above). Looks okay, but we were really pulling for this one.
Related links:
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Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog
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