Now these comes as strange mixture of future retro distribution. Along with vinyl new Thom Yorke (Radiohead) album is for the first time ever distributed via Bit Torrent…
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is a new record from Thom Yorke.. the BitTorrent Bundle features 8 tracks and a music video.
As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record…It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around. If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work. Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves. Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers. If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done. The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or cloud malarkey. It’s a self-contained embeddable shop front…