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Last week we did some debunking on the unsupported idea that just because Radiohead was sick of recording full albums, it somehow meant that the band’s business model experiment had been a failure, and that the band did not like using “free” as a part of its business model. Amazingly, the usual cast of characters in our comments continued to insist that Radiohead had clearly learned that “free” doesn’t pay. Amusingly, that very same day a “brand new” Radiohead track suddenly appeared on BitTorrent, leading to all sorts of speculation (much of it wrong). But on Monday, the band not only officially released the track for free, but in order to distribute it, it pointed to the very same torrent tracker that had been uploaded last week. In other words, the band leaked its own latest song (for free) via BitTorrent, let the buzz build, and then officially announced the “release” a few days later. But, of course, we’re to believe our commenting friends who insist that the band learned that “free” doesn’t work?

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