Ahh! New Radiohead Album Available This Saturday!

It's a Valentine's Day miracle! Radiohead has just announced that their eighth full length album, King of Limbs, will go on sale this weekend, and is being billed as the "world's (perhaps) first Newspaper album." Sure, cool guys, just give us the music.

Those who preorder now for $48 or $53 will get a CD, two vinyls, "Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together," a digital download of all the tracks. The downloads will be available on February 19th and then all the art will ship on May 9th. Or you can pay $9 for just the digital tracks. Of course, this isn't the pay-what-you-want plan of In Rainbows, but they've gotta make a living, and we couldn't care less. As David Gela wrote on Twitter, "finally, waking up to a new radiohead album? yes, virginia, there is a santa claus."

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By Jaya Saxena in Arts & Entertainment on February 14, 2011 10:05 AM

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drew_o

You got me at New Radiohead. My cybercash is at the ready.

nomadnewyork

Best Valentines Day present I ever got.

Ragingsemi

Yes YES YES! It won't be OK computer, or The Bends, but come on it's still Radiohead!

NlGGAZ

I'm a radiohead stan since way back but I hate all the new radiohead poseurs who just like them cause everyone said they were good. You don't get to call yourself a radiohead fan unless you just bought the clueless soundtrack for the acoustic version of fake plastic trees and the romeo and juliet soundtrack for talk show host and bring it up to the cash register of Tower records to the punk employee with 3 eyebrow rings.

random transplant

You forgot Rabbit in Your Headlights w/ dj shadow. I don't think its off a soundtrack but the video might as well be an anthem to New York. haha.

masterjarvis

i cant tell if your being sarcastic

Mordicai

But trust me. About the sunscreen.

jibbly

You know, the Clueless soundtrack actually had some pretty awesome stuff on it. The Muffs, Velocity Girls, Beastie Boys (Mullet Head!!! Cut the front, don't touch the back!), Luscious Jackson, Smoking Popes...I mean even the Bosstones were in there before they hit the top 40 charts.

The '90s were an interesting time for compilations and soundtracks. I mean especially stuff like Saturday Morning, where a bunch of "alt" bands covered the theme songs from cartoons. The Ramone's cover of Spiderman is so fucking awesome. Helmet's Gigantor is up there too.

Trustafarian

I'll check it out. "In Rainbows" was pretty good (not the first listen, but it definitely grew on me)

Mordicai

I was relating some anecdote to my boss this morning & he started staring at me like I was some amazing genius & I was like "woah, this story is NOT that interesting" which is when he said, totally ignoring the fact that I'd been speaking, "THERE IS A NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM THIS SATURDAY!"

Ross Bennett Brown

"And we couldn't care less."

Really? Then how do you explain such an uninteresting thing appearing here? Is this really what you consider news-worthy? You're as excited as my sister was in 1972 over a picture of David Cassidy. Why not shill for other bands? Mogwai has an album being released; where's the advertising for them?

random transplant

radiohead headlined a bunch of acts here & influenced a great many local bands.

Their recent production models (like this) are relevant to local industry.

You should'a listened to your sister. She was probably on to something.