Radiohead Web Site Crashes Due to Heavy Traffic for In Rainbows
By: Spacelab Research Staff In case you've been absent from the world for the past few days, Radiohead have finished their new album, and you can buy it online starting on October 10th. Its called In Rainbows.
Radiohead turned the music industry on its ear by deciding to forego signing to a label for now to release the whole thing through their web site, letting buyers name their own price for the download version.
And then everybody rushed in. It seems that practically everyone in the world wanted a piece of the Radiohead action and bum-rushed the web site to reserve their copy of In Rainbows. And when web servers have to work that hard, they sometimes get angry. The server crashed due to overloaded traffic.
"It's getting busy in there, busier than they expected," Jonny Greenwood said on the band's W.A.S.T.E. web site. "So, if you please bear with us, it should get cleared out soon. I sound like a bouncer. Get behind the rope. No denim. Thanks for your patience with the site and interest in the record."
