Well, I think this is a clever little experiment Mr. Yorke and co. have come up with -- letting fans decided how much to pay to download their lovely new album "In Rainbows."

Being the hardcore Radiohead fan that I am, I shelled out the $80 for the deluxe CD/vinyl package. But I probably would have been willing to pay around $10 for the download had that been my only option. They're usually worth it.

This is, hopefully, going to shake up the industry quite a bit. Record companies are evil blah blah blah (really, at least a couple of years ago they were still deducting "packaging" costs from artist advances for sales of digital downloads. Packaging? For an mp3?). I think this sentiment is best summed up by the folks over at Best Week Ever:

Radiohead Bends Record Industry Over Conference Table And Goes To Town