Radiohead Box Set

Radiohead Box Set is a box set of the first six studio albums and one live album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 10 December 2007. The albums were included on CDs and a USB sticks, and as a download.[2] The box set peaked at #95 in Canada's album charts.

Radiohead Box Set
Box set by
Radiohead
Released10 December 2007
Recorded1992 - 2003
Genre
Length334:23
Label
Producer
Radiohead chronology
In Rainbows
(2007)		 Radiohead Box Set
(2007)		 Radiohead: The Best Of
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Contents

The box set contains Radiohead's first six studio albums and one live album, recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI:

The box set was released in physical form as a limited edition seven CD box set, with each album in original digipak sleeves, as a download as DRM-free 320 kbit/s MP3 files with digital artwork and as a 4GB USB Stick. The USB stick contains all seven albums as WAV files and artwork for each album.

Release

Radiohead's record contract with EMI ended in 2003 with the release of their sixth album, Hail to the Thief. They chose not to re-sign with EMI for their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), which was self-released on the Radiohead website and at retail by XL Recordings.[3]

EMI announced the Radiohead box set days after Radiohead signed to XL, and released it in the same week as the In Rainbows special edition "discbox". Radiohead had no creative input into the release, and were reportedly "incensed" by it;[3] commentators including the Guardian saw it as retaliation for the band choosing not to sign with EMI.[4] EMI owner Guy Hands defended the releases as necessary to boost EMI's revenues, and said that "we don't have a huge amount of reasons to be nice [to Radiohead]".[3]

The box set was promoted on Google Ads with an advert reading: "Radiohead – New album In Rainbows now available as boxset". The advert led to an EMI site selling the Radiohead box set, which does not include In Rainbows. EMI removed the advert, saying it was a "data source glitch". A spokesperson for Radiohead said they accepted it was an error.[5]

gollark: And if you just want to scrape the site's HTML to get information, tough; the class names are seemingly deliberately obfuscated, there's no semantic HTML, and a lot of stuff is paginated (which admittedly is fine for actual browser use).
gollark: It seems to me as if it's deliberately designed to make third-party stuff as annoying as possible. The examples are all for PHP, it uses a weird system[1] instead of fairly standardized HTTP response codes, there are some special cases (-2 and -1 on hoursleft on a dragon) which are a bit weird, and the API keys are request-only. I emailed TJ09 asking for one and got no response (EDIT: oops, there's a request form. Either I missed that or it was added recently.)
gollark: It's a shame the DC API isn't more, well, usable. There could be loads of cool stuff like that made.
gollark: I think I saw an inbreeding coefficient calculator at some point.
gollark: Now to name one *The* Dragon of Orangeness.

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. Nestruck, Kelly (8 November 2007). "EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue". The Guardian. London: Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2007.
  3. Forde, Eamonn (2019-02-18). "Chasing rainbows: inside the battle between Radiohead and EMI's Guy Hands". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  4. Nestruck, Kelly (8 November 2007). "EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  5. "Radiohead speak out about box set mix-up". NME. 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
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