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Digital Music Roundup: Radiohead Ends Pay-What-You-Want; Another Site Updates The Pricing Model

By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Dec 2007 03:17 PM PST

-- Radiohead Ends Pay-Your-Own-Price Plan, Probably For Good: Radiohead’s experiment in letting fans decide what to pay for downloads of its most recent album will end December 10, Digital Music News reports. The alternative British band is currently in talks with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the album, In Rainbows, via iTunes, BillboardBiz adds. Apart from that, a Sunday NYT piece contains a hint from one of the band’s managers, Chris Hufford, that the pay-what-you-wish download was likely a one-off.

-- A Different Kind Of Remix Site: Alternative music artists Kristin Hersh, former leader of Throwing Muses, and L7’s Donita Sparks have created a subscription-based website that will not only serve as a distribution platform for their works and fan remixes, but for original songs from independent artists. CASH Music (stands for: Coalition for Artists and Stake Holders) is meant to provide both fan support and financial support. As News.com points out, the site offers a range of subscription choices, with the high end aimed at other artists, albeit ones with deep pockets. For example, at $10 per quarter, users get all the media, merchandise and CDs they want; at $30, they get a “Works in Progress” CD plus two free tickets to any show; $500 buys all that, and a meeting with Hersh in the studio, $1,000 earns a “featured sponsor” credit on the next CD, and $5,000 bumps that to an “executive producer” credit. At the lower end, there’s a pay-what-you-wish option for singles—for instance, Hersh’s current single is set at a $3 default, but users can still change the price up or down. 

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