Gizmodo
EMI's efforts to ride Radiohead's wave of rainbow-y vibes didn't stop with their cute but obscenely priced USB drive loaded up with Radiohead's back catalog. If you Googled "Radiohead" last week, the top ad promised to bring you to a boxset of their new album "Rainbow" (like a bad Chinese knockoff) only to push your browser to EMI's overpriced back catalog options. Classy! [Guardian via Idolator]
Misleading EMI Ad Touted New Radiohead Album, Directed Clickers to Own Store
7:20 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Matt Buchanan
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Shady Bastards.
The classic "bait and switch" routine. Johnny Rotten nasally snarls "EMI!"
Oh you rascally record labels you! Always thinkin' of somethin'!
Isn't there some kind of law against false advertising ? :P ... losers!
And here we see an unexpected method for a band to make a mint off of a record label:
through a lawsuit
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