Gigwise reports: It appears that the offer to fans to pay whatever they like for a CD download didn't result in fans being cheap. While they apparently paid about half of what a new CD costs in stores, Radiohead has already made almost $10 million dollars from their revolutionary new business model in less than a week according to an estimate from Gigwise.
A poll of in excess of 3,000 people on a Record of the Day website has found that the average price a Radiohead fan paid for a copy of 'In Rainbows' was ?4 Gigwise reports.
Corroborated with our exclusive that the Oxford band shifted 1.2million copies of the album ? thanks to inside knowledge of a source close to the band ? it means that Radiohead could have potentially earned a massive ?4.8million from the album already!-
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