| **OnlineHost** Welcome to Musical Genius Chat! |
| robert_digital: So I heard you guys are giving away the new Radiohead album for free. |
| SergeantYorke: well actually we will make the first disc available to download for whatever price you want. we will also be selling a discbox for about $80 which features a |
| robert_digital: WHOA FREE ALBUM |
| SergeantYorke: not a single person has let me finish that sentence so far |
| SergeantYorke: but still, with this decision we plan to make history and revolutionize music forever |
| TheHalfBloodPrince: You know, I should remind you that I gave an album away for free a few months ago. |
| SergeantYorke: was it purple rain or the black album or joshua tree |
| TheHalfBloodPrince: No. And I didn’t do Joshua Tree. |
| SergeantYorke: all right then nobody cares about your ninety billion other albums that all sound like the year 1991 farting |
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| Sufjan_Succotash: are you sure you want to do this, dude? you could destroy the music industry forever |
| SergeantYorke: pffft |
| Sufjan_Succotash: look at it this way say your album’s worth $20 but you give it away for free. it will knock down consumer expectations across the board |
| | Sufjan_Succotash: most albums printed these days are total crap so they’ll be worth a negative amount of money. anyone who owns a jack johnson album will owe the IRS like 10 bucks |
| SergeantYorke: well go grab a piccolo and write a song about how it relates to the simple but proud people of, like, wisconsin |
| **OnlineHost** Radiohead has effectively released its album for free over the Internet. |
| **OnlineHost** The music industry has been completely destroyed. |
| SergeantYorke: AAAAAAHH LAID WASTE BY MY OWN HUBRIS |
| **OnlineHost** JackoffJohnson has entered the chatroom. |
| JackoffJohnson: GUYS I’M IN DEEP SHIT, I’M WORTH LIKE NEGATIVE 50 TRILLION DOLLARS YOU HAVE TO LET ME HIDE OUT IN HERE |
| TheHalfBloodPrince: How did you like Musicology? |
| JackoffJohnson: I never heard it. |
| TheHalfBloodPrince: all right he can stay |
