This is great!

Wired brought David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Thom Yorke (Radiohead) together, to talk about the real value of music and about Radiohead’s In Rainbows distribution strategy.
Hearing this from one innovative musician to the other, i.e. without too much business stuff, made me understand the deal a little bit better.

Yorke: “The only reason we could even get away with this, the only reason anyone even gives a shit, is the fact that we’ve gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place. It’s not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation.”

You can read the whole interview over at Wired Magazine here

Sometimes (more and more often actually) I feel like I am living on the wrong continent..
The first time this thought really hit me was 5 months ago, when one of my favourite services on the internet, Pandora was forced to shut off the site to non-US members.

Today the Pandora founder Tim Westergren writes:
“As it stands now, there is still no affordable license for a webcaster to stream legally (ie. abiding by all standing copyright law and properly compensating performers and composers) anywhere outside the US.”

..meaning .. still no solution to the problem … *biggest sigh ever*

To read the full update from Tim Westergren, visit Pandora’s Blog here.