Radiohead wasn’t going to take upstart Trent Reznor’s sass much longer. The British band loved by everyone trying to look smart has made its third single off In Rainbows available as an instrument-by-instrument downloade—for remixing! Nobody wins anything for their troubles, except placement on the band’s site.
The band calls these separate tracks “stems” and charges you 99 cents for the privilege of downloading each one off iTunes. If you buy all five stems the band, magnanimously, will send you a Garageband file for easy remixing.
Sound familiar? It should! Reznor did a similar thing three years ago with one of the songs off With Teeth. Only Reznor didn’t charge you to download “stems” or any other pseudo-cutting-edge term.
via National Post
So did the band “Mindless Self Indulgence” a couple years ago with their single “Straight to Video”. Everything was free
In other words, LAME
Yeah, they didn’t take what much longer? All their taking are Trent’s ideas. He gave us the MULTI_TRACKS to remix/play with back in 05 starting with songs from WITH TEETH.
Let me hear a collective shout: “Thank you Mr. Reznor for your ideas”
10 points for originality!