Radiohead Box Set


Radiohead Box Set is a box set of the first six studio albums and one live album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 10 December 2007. The albums were included on CDs and a USB sticks, and as a download. The box set peaked at #95 in Canada's album charts.

Contents

The box set contains Radiohead's first six studio albums and one live album, recorded while Radiohead were signed to EMI:
The box set was released in physical form as a limited edition seven CD box set, with each album in original digipak sleeves, as a download as DRM-free 320 kbit/s MP3 files with digital artwork and as a 4GB USB Stick. The USB stick contains all seven albums as WAV files and artwork for each album.

Release

Radiohead's record contract with EMI ended in 2003 with the release of their sixth album, Hail to the Thief. They chose not to re-sign with EMI for their seventh album, In Rainbows, which was self-released on the Radiohead website and at retail by XL Recordings.
EMI announced the Radiohead box set days after Radiohead signed to XL, and released it in the same week as the In Rainbows special edition "discbox". Radiohead were reportedly "incensed" at the release; commentators including the Guardian saw it as retaliation for the band choosing not to sign with EMI. EMI owner Guy Hands defended the releases as necessary to boost EMI's revenues, and said that "we don't have a huge amount of reasons to be nice ".
The box set was promoted on Google with an advert reading: "Radiohead – New album In Rainbows now available as boxset". The advert led to an EMI site selling the Radiohead box set, which does not include In Rainbows. EMI removed the advert, saying it was a "data source glitch". A spokesperson for Radiohead said they accepted it was an error.