Is a bonus track worth the cost of DRM?
The iTunes "Exclusive Edition" of White Chalk contains "Wait" as an extra, while:
the same record(s) from Amazon's new "MP3 Downloads" does not for the same (overall) price, less the DRM and what's more, a higher overall bit rate, which should mean higher quality. While my ears are aged and slightly damaged, my brain knows that there's an incentive in purchasing DRM-free content, even if it means losing a song in the process. When will the industry learn the valuable lesson that treating your customers like suspects does not foster brand loyalty. I hope the Radiohead experiment is a smashing success. And I also hope the all of those execs in their big offices in those big buildings of steel and glass know what time it is... When I can purchase art directly from the artist, the middleman loses. And that's not a bad thing.
