March 5th is coming up fast for fans of Tim Burton and/or the classic tale titled Alice In Wonderland. When Tim Burton first revealed he was working with Johnny Depp on a darker version of the story, who wasn’t excited? Sweeney Todd was back in 2007 and let’s face it, The Corpse Bride provided redemption for the disappointing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. So, when Burton announced he was taking a stab at another classic, a very surreal and hippie-friendly one at that, our ears perked up and our eyes have been on the lookout.

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These days, politicians aren’t the only people flip-flopping on issues.

With some of the industry’s biggest names questioning the vitality of giving fans free music or supporting downloading, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of who’s maintaining what position – especially because media-hogging musicians, namely Sir Paul McCartney and The Cure frontman Robert Smith, keep changing their minds.

So where do McCartney and Smith stand on the issue now?

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Tim Burton, who has his next 3D movie Alice in Wonderland in the works, wants to collaborate with The Cure, and admits to being a long time fan of the band. The prodigious filmmaker presented the band with the Godlike Genius at the NME awards on Wednesday, and told BBC:

“I’ve been [a fan] for so many years and they’ve been so inspirational to me, so it’s a real honour to be here with them. I could easily see really liking to do something, collaborate some time.”

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After Radiohead offered an opportunity for fans to “pay what you want” in regards to their In Rainbows CD, there were a lot of reactions ranging from shock to joy. Later on, more artists such as Girl Talk decided to let their fans determine how much they wanted to donate as well. (Although if you chose to pay $0, Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals host, illegal-art.net, inquired why with a multiple choice question.) The option seemed to work for Radiohead since they immediately sold 1.2 million copies online, and fans still continued to buy physical copies afterward.

However, The Cure‘s Robert Smith has deemed this option to be foolish because it allows the fans to put a value on the artist’s work. Is this business model fundamentally wrong as he says? Or does it not matter because it makes it more convenient for fans? Let us know what you think!

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Robert Smith, singer and guitarist of The Cure, thinks Radiohead’s “pay what you want” business model for 2007’s release of their album In Rainbows is fundamentally wrong, and said that “you can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all and that’s nonsense.”

Radiohead probably made money, even with the “free” strategy, and the subsequent physical release went to number 1 in the US and the UK. However, at the time Smith “disagreed violently” with what he calls the “Radiohead experiment.”
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