U2's manager: 'Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' album backfired'

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U2's Manager Should Do More Managing, Less Talking [Maybe He Can Start A Blog]
Published 6/10/2008 by Dan Gibson at Idolator
After starting up a firestorm of hot blogging commentary recently with his comments about the Internet and music, Paul McGuinness is at it again, this time pontificating about Radiohead's dramatic sales failure with In Rainbows. You might be wondering, what sales failure? In Rainbows sold as many physical copies as their previous two albums and they made a boatload of Euros from their online "giveaway". Not so, says the wise Mr. McGuinness! The manager claimed that most fans who downloaded the album did so through illegal means, despite the album being ...