When Radiohead first revealed to fans nine days ago that they’d be releasing a downloadable new album, In Rainbows, October 10th seemed like eons away. Thankfully, all the speculating about the album and how it would impact the music industry (Exhibit A) helped pass the time and, before we knew it, we looked in our e-mail inbox today to find this preemptive email from the band:
THANK YOU FOR ORDERING IN RAINBOWS. THIS IS AN UPDATE.
YOUR UNIQUE ACTIVATION CODE(S) WILL BE SENT OUT TOMORROW MORNING (UK TIME). THIS WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO THE DOWNLOAD AREA.
HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:
THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 X 160KBPS DRM FREE MP3s.
DRM-free, so you can burn as many CDs and send it to as many friends as you want. But tomorrow morning (U.K. time)? Do they mean 10 AM (5 AM in NY) or 5 AM (midnight in NY)? Tell us, Thom! For those who are unable to download In Rainbows during this ambiguous time called “morning,” London radio station XFM will be “premiering” the new album at Noon U.K. time, or 7 AM EST. You can listen to it then via their Web site (you must have Windows Media, sorry Mac users.) Until then, check out our track-by-track preview of In Rainbows. And don’t actually salivate on your keyboard — Rolling Stone’s Joe Levy warned us about that before. Think we’re psyched about this album? Come back tomorrow, when we’ll be live-blogging our first listen to it … whatever time we actually figure out how to nab it.
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