Thought this was pretty interesting:
The new Radiohead album was on sale digitally by the band. The band asked for donations in exchange for the album and got an average of 8$ per album. They sold 1.2M albums. Sales are at about $10 million in one week, that’s more than their last three albums combined did during their respective launch weeks.
found at:
Radiohead In Rainbows Album Sales at memoirs on a rainy day
i commend radiohead for taking this approach, and what better group to do it than them. i really think this is the way of the future and it's definitely much more sound from an environmental standpoint.