Radioheads managers came up with the pay as you go model
David Allen from Gang of Four and the blog Pampelmoose posted this interview with Thom Yorke about how Radiohead came up with the pay as you go business model.
From the interview:
Byrne: And letting people choose their own price?
Yorke: That was [manager Chris Hufford's] idea.
So much praise goes up all the time for Radiohead and how they came up with this “new idea” and how the industry is going to change. But the real praise (if any) goes to their manager.
Coming strait from Yorke’s mouth is this:
It’s not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation. We’re out of contract. We have our own studio. We have this new server. What the hell else would we do? This was the obvious thing. But it only works for us because of where we are.
Without the name of Radiohead you would never get the kind of response that Radiohead did.
