Good news from the music biz.

This week has seen, what I believe to be, two very important stories from the music biz. First there was the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, which came out on Wednesday at an unspecified price. Now there is national outrage over ticket brokers ripping off little girls all across America.

First Radiohead: if you haven't heard about this yet you haven't been paying attention. Radiohead have put out a new album. It is called In Rainbows. You can pay whatever price you want for it. Or not at all. Radiohead currently do not have a record deal, and decided that they would release their new album on their own over the Internet. I could have paid nothing, but I was generous and paid 20 pence. I've seen people on the Internet claiming to have paid in excess of $20USD, for low quality digital files. This is could be another step in tearing down the machine of major record labels.

Second Hannah Montana: she is touring right now, and no one can get tickets. I know my sisters would love to go see HM on tour, but my parents being the Luddite concert goers they are, never had a shot at getting tickets. I've been to enough concerts that I've been able to figure out how to get tickets without paying broker fees. Most people are not so fortunate, and they are now stuck paying hundreds of dollars to make their children happy, or they could just complain to the authorities. (Why didn't we think of this earlier? We're not angry moms, that's why!) According to CNN Missouri and Arkansas are suing ticket brokers over selling Hannah Montana tickets illegally. That combined with a lawsuit from Ticketmaster against ticket brokers could be good news for those of us that have come to live with ticket brokers.