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Originally Posted by Yachtzee
I can understand why Tom Yorke and Radiohead don't want to meet Miley Cyrus and Kanye West backstage at the Grammys. Not that I've been to the Grammys, but I've been in situations where people come up to you at an event trying to curry favor or play the "I'm an admirer" game. You get the feeling they aren't sincere. If someone was really interested in meeting you, why wait for a "photo op" moment to do it?
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I have no doubt that "snubs", intentional or not, happen backstage at these events right and left. The fact that we know about it at all says a lot more about Miley Cyrus than it does about Radiohead. (this is a completely biased comment, I admit. I did not approve of Miley Cyrus's oscar dress. she looked like one of those fake glittery white Christmas trees that rotate in the front windows of old people's split-level homes. This is an offense difficult to overcome with me. Most people never get to go to the Oscars, so if you have the chance and you wear something that makes you look like faux flora, you should be banned from famous people.)
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Originally Posted by Unassisted
You're partly right. Her ranking as a seller of CDs also benefits from the fact that adults have drastically cut back their CD purchases in favor of digital downloads, paid and free. The kids' market is the only one that can be depended on to buy CDs.
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Not to mention the fact that sales of Radiohead's last album, In Rainbows -- one of their most successful -- have never really been tracked. The album was released online as a "pay what you want" release and is rumored to have "sold" 1.2 million copies in its first day alone, but no one really knows for sure, and obviously the actual sales dollars figures have never been released. The album sold far more "copies" online than it did when it was ultimately released as a CD. They've sold at least 30 million albums in their career, but that's probably a very safe figure.