The Megaphone : A Debate Blog

So I’m sure you are all aware of this news story. Radiohead are selling their new album In Rainbows at the amazing price of… “whatever you’re willing to pay for it”… That can even be £0.00 (just a 45p credit card handling fee).

I have been trying to work out if this is a good or a bad idea. At first I thought it was going to make a massive loss, but I believe it is download only, so there is no postal cost.

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I didn’t mean to get you all a fluster with that suggestive title. The thumbing of which I speak occurs at the side of the road, and involves hitching a ride… it’s impossible to not make it sound like pure filth. I mean hitchhiking.

It is a sad, sad day in the land of… well me today.

Last night I should have been in attendance of the Spinto Band’s final UK performance this year. But as you can see the only money I have at the moment is of the copper and of the chocolate variety. As surprising as it may sound, copper and chocolate are not sufficient currency to exchange for train tickets and hotel accommodation.

The only way I could have made the show (excluding selling unnecessary organs on the black market) would have been to hitchhike. So today I ponder the mystery

Is it ever safe to hitchhike?

I’m not going to lie to you, I am quite a pretty, effeminate looking man. If I were to go to prison for whatever reason, I would most definitely become the favourite prison bitch. This is also the reason I couldn’t bring myself to go out “thumbing”… even for such a worthy cause.

So… would you ever? Have you ever? And most importantly, would you survive? Answers on the back of the postcard below please.

On the upside of the whole Spinto debacle, the Spinto Band managed to find time to send me a personal Valentines card through my creative director at work. I think it was very thoughtful of them… although they did guess their own names wrong, and used ‘too’ instead of ‘to’, meh.