So I'm ordering the new Radiohead album as a download, and I get to the pay section. How much do I want to pay? At first I thought, yay, I can get it for like, 1 pence. Then I thought no, Radiohead will then know I'm a cheap bastard. So I thought I'd pay more. Then I thought, but I'm poor. So I won't pay much. But then it occured to me how cool it is they're doing this, and I should reward them. But then the exchange rate might get me, and I'll be paying loads. But if I'm going to pay so little, I'd might as well download it for free. But I really like Radiohead and buy all their albums by matter of loyalty, so I should pay more than zero.

So I pulled a number from thin air - something that wouldn't break the increasingly perilous bank, but that wasn't nothing.



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It's not like they need my money, is it?

EDIT: Here's the piece I wrote yesterday for City Beat, it's now gone live.