Radiohead are My Favourite Marketers. 1

Radiohead are My Favourite Marketers.

I remember being 16 years old, sitting in front of my boombox, legs crossed, waiting for Paranoid Android to be played on the radio with a finger on the record button ready to tape the new Radiohead single. Today it’s a bit different, now I use the internet, making recording and accessing much easier. Also not sure really where that boombox is anymore… When OK Computer was released I became a lifetime Radiohead fan and I’ve been fascinated with them since. The Bends is a great album, and we will never know why that guy is laying on the floor for the Just video (Send me your theories though!!!) but it was their 3rd album Ok Computer, that set them apart to me. With Ok Computer, Radiohead put out Paranoid Android, (a 6+ minute single) at a time when everyone was releasing short pop songs. They paired it with a cartoon music video starring a guy in a toque with an R on it (which I also sat in front of Much Music waiting to tape that with a VHS) and was placed on heavy rotation in the growing ADD world of MTV. On May 8th 2016 – Radiohead removed themselves from the internet. They pulled an internet cleanse. It was wonderful to watch and also shocked my SEO mind (what about their indexed pages!!) They finally followed through with “how to disappear completely” by removing everything off their website. They purged their Twitter & Facebook of all posts &…