Radiohead Albums Boxed In Time For Christmas
Radiohead

November 05, 2007, 10:05 AM ET

Lars Brandle, London
A Radiohead boxed set, spanning the British band's first six studio albums plus a live record, will be available from Dec. 10 via the band's Web site.

The seven-CD limited edition sets will comprise the band's Parlophone albums "Pablo Honey" (1993), "The Bends" (1995), "OK Computer" (1997), "Kid A" (2000), "Amnesiac" (2001), "Hail to the Thief" (2003) and the live album "I Might Be Wrong" (2001). Purchasers will also have access to stream special footage.

On the same day, the alternative rock outfit will release for pre-order a limited edition USB stick, shaped in the band's iconic "bear" image. The 4GB memory stick will contain Radiohead's entire catalog in WAV files together with digital artwork. Both formats will be available only from Radioheadstore.com.

A digital bundle of all seven albums will also be available from Dec. 10 as DRM-free MP3 files, together with digital artwork.

"We are particularly excited about the USB stick," comments Parlophone's managing director Miles Leonard, "which gives fans an easy and portable way to carry the box set and provides another way of bridging the world between on-line and off-line content."


U.K. charts compiler the Official U.K. Charts Company recently made tweaks to its criteria, allowing the USB format to quality for the album chart.

Radiohead split with Parlophone in 2005 and recently struck a deal enabling indie label XL Recordings to handle the physical release of its new album, "In Rainbows."

That deal is expected to cover territories outside North America, leaving the band free to sign a separate deal there, but no further details have yet been made available.

Awesome. The 'deluxe' edition of In Rainbows is also available and should be shipping to be stateside by the Jesusy holidays. Of course, the digital download is available right now but it's .. MP3, not the greatest quality MP3 either.

I do need to get more Radiohead. I can honestly say that I've only listened to Ok Computer.

holy crap 39 pounds 99!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's not a bad deal to get all the albums, have them physically, plus the special box set content.

The usb is 79.99 (pounds) and looks to be gigantic.. like at least the diameter of a cd, but of course a lot thicker --way cool looking though

That's awesome. I may go for the box set. I'm big on owning the actual disc.

That's awesome. I may go for the box set. I'm big on owning the actual disc.

It's 5 pounds more than the digital-only (160kbps MP3 if it's like the digital copy of In Rainbows... not the best quality) as well!

I'm hoping that there is a physical, non-special edition box set of In Rainbows available, because I'm not going to spend 40 pounds on a single album just because it comes with the LP and some special edition stuff.

that is pretty cool on the seven albums.unlike dee snyder from twisted sister that will be realesing an album for christmas but the songs are christmas songs.

Its all great stuff... any several computer migrations and even more moves, I think I only have the greatest hits album.

Didn't they just come out with some album that you can download for free?

Didn't they just come out with some album that you can download for free?

yeah.. it's 160kbps mp3 though.

I will buy the 82USD deluxe edition of the album if that's the only way to get a higher quality copy of it.

i has the mp3, its really not terrible quality

i has the mp3, its really not terrible quality

listen to it with better speakers and it's imperfect. Hell my Grados aren't crazy expensive (the SR125s) headphones and I hear the artifacting. I'm still holding out hope that they'll release just a traditional CD, but their new indie label seems to be all about digital delivery, saving physical for special edition box sets.

i havent listened to it on anything but computer speakers