Honestly? Nothing.
The site was so glitchy and nonfunctional at the time, i kept reloading it and hitting buttons to see if it was working, and then when it said it was processed i kind of freaked out but i didn't think it went through.

i feel bad.
i have added to the skew in the average.
i probably couldn't have afforded it and it is so good.

Interesting. I paid right about the average.

I paid about $8.50 USD. It was easily worth it to me, and yet still less than I would have paid for it anywhere else. I probably could have gotten most of the album for free off of mp3 blogs, but it was fun to participate in their experiment.

£3.50. Seemed fair to me, though I might've paid more had their site been a bit more stable. Took multiple tries over a couple of days to process a single order from start to purchase. I mean ... this is Radiohead ... anyone had to realize that their ecommerce site would have to be nigh bulletproof to handle the influx.

Yeah, I have a friend who's been trying on-and-off for the last 5 days to order a copy and the site's still not playing properly. Strange that the payment bit is screwy but, for me and other on the first day when I'd have guessed demand would be at its most, the download was quick, easy and trouble free.

On the basis that I would almost certainly buy the CD or box set, I paid £2 for the download. I'm going to get the CD in January so they'll get the extra to make up for my initial tightness then.

I paid £10. If I had the money, I would have paid £100 just to thank them for sticking it to the man.

I paid £20.45.

Not everyone is happy.

Anyone who complained about the bitrate is a dufus. I challenge anyone to tell the difference between an mp3 encoded at 160 kbps and 190 kbps with their ears alone. Heck, I can't tell the difference between a file encoded with mp3 and a file encoded with FLAC.

I feel like most of the complainers either like to mess around with the unencoded files for remixes or are completely delusional.

Most people will listen to these files on a sub-awesome stereo so, almost certainly, won't be able to hear the difference between Radiohead's encoding and anything else at a similar level. I'm pretty certain most people don't actually understand the difference in the first place.

I have this argument with one of my brothers who is a slave to the iTunes store. He spent a fortune there buying DRM-encoded tracks (and moaned about the DRM all the time). When Apple introduced DRM-free tracks at a higher price and bit rate, he re-purchased a huge chunk of his stuff. This week Apple has reduced the price of its non-DRM tracks to the same price as everything else, so he's been conned again. What's next? DRM'd lossless files for even more money followed by non-DRM'd lossless tracks for a little more? If so, he'll buy all those as well. What a con! I'll buy one CD for £8.99 or less and have the tracks at whatever bit rate I want, without fear of hard drive crashes, borked software, third party (to me) companies twatting around by introducing new things, etc, etc. And I'll have artwork, lyrics, physical CD and won't have to buy it again, all being well.

Sheesh.

Yeah, I don't think it's worth having an argument about, but: I've got a stereo that's a piece of crap by audiophile standards and awesome by most other people's, and, with certain recordings at least, the difference between 128 kpbs and LAME alt-preset-extreme VBR, or lossless, is noticeable.