Re:Wilco (Score 1)

I agree that YHF is good enough that it would have been a success either way. But I think that's why streaming the album helped Wilco. They don't get nearly enough radio play, at least where I'm from, but they had always been critically successful. Streaming the album IMO allowed people who would otherwise not get a chance to hear them, and not want to shell out $15 for an album of songs they'd never heard, to try before they bought. In the article Tweedy says something to the effect that "not every download is a lost sale." I agree, but I'd also say that he and Wilco are in something of a specific situation, since they have a real solid body of work that needed exposure. It's hard to imagine that the same would have been the case if Wilco had already been making platinum records, though.