Preordered the box.

Wash Cycle: I would listen to Ok Computer a few times, and if you like it, listen to it more times. If you don't like it, try The Bends. Either way, listen to the Bends. Because it is good also.

Then Kid A or The Eraser. You probably won't enjoy Amnesiac so much until you get bored of Kid A, which in my case took a very long time. Now, all I listen to is Amnesiac.

Man how can anyone prefer Amnesiac

Kid A is like such a developed idea and Amnesiac is just SONGS IN SEQUENCE to me, which it very well might be because it was the B-sides to Kid A

(also which Radiohead album(s) should I get if I want to actually see what this band is all about)

You only need two songs, Creep + High and Dry

That is so fucking weird! It's a shame the "discbox" version doesn't have a retail release (or does it? maybe I misread), though. At least the standard version is available.
Also, it's good to hear that Stanley Donwood is working with them again, but what's the deal with no Nigel Godrich? Oh well. I've not listened to them for AAAGES, but I'll check it out.

You only need two songs, Creep + High and Dry

yeah if you want to be college kid #53953 who loves radiohead but doesn't actually like 99% of radiohead's catalogue. hey why don't you throw street spirit in there too! and karma police!

"Electioneering" <-- What got me into Radiohead.

me as well. This is probably my favorite Radiohead song, you should check it out

Yeah it probably helps that my first Radiohead song was Everything in Its Right Place. My brother had the CD and we were listening to it on the way somewhere. So I always thought of Radiohead as like this POST-MUSIC band almost. Amnesiac just sounds whiny to me. Some odd time signatures and sound concepts (lol backwards song) but whiny nonetheless. Definitely more ALL IS WOE IN THE WORLD than I can take seriously too.

Edit: I thought I'd elaborate - like if a sign of a good writer is being able to fabricate a character, like say they make a guy named BOB JOHNSON, if I'm convinced for a while that BOB JOHNSON exists, or at least he's believable as a real human being, I take that as good writing. So it tends to impress me if I hear a song and I'm like struggling to comprehend that it was actually written, some songs/albums/styles feel more like THERE IS MUSIC rather than "people are performing a song that they wrote". That's why Kid A impresses me, it does this without just being NOISE or RANDOM NOTES. It also doesn't present itself like most music does, like Everything in Its Right Place has this weird feeling to me, like it's always existed or something, like there was just a radio somewhere that was playing this song 24/7 and I happened to approach it so that's why I started hearing this song all of a sudden. Sigur Ros is pretty awesome too because they manage to get the same feeling even though they stick to rock instruments almost all the time I think. So even though music is being performed, it feels more like MUSIC IS HAPPENING. I know you guys hate me mentioning it but I think Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. II is so impressive too because if you really go out of your way you can hear some very traditional techno sounds in there, but it's presented in a way that it feels neither natural nor artificial somehow.

So that's why I think Kid A is more HIGH-CONCEPT than Amnesiac.

"Subterranean Homesick Alien" <-- What got my Mom into Radiohead.

That's pretty interesting. My Mom prefers something akin to High and Dry on the Bends. She shys away from any other album. My sister has been listening to Spinning Plates because it was on one of her tv shows. I'd like to think that they are "into" Radiohead but really they are not.

B-sides:
"Gagging Order"
"Fog (Again)"
"True Love Waits"
"Palo Alto"
"How I Made my Millions"

Add "Pearly" to that list.

Ditto on Electioneering as the gateway song, though Paranoid Android was the reason why I listened to OK Computer in the first place.

Ragnar, Maybe you have the wrong idea about the album in general. There's a song called Pyramid Song that is very comforting and uplifting, not really all is woe in any way. Yeah, it has a melodramatic feel to it (it is about dying I guess), but I think that's just to better express the latent optimism behind it. It's a song that very effectively plays on your emotions. My personal take on it (if you care) is there's so much we can't know about everything ("all my past and futures") but still in the end (after you die) fear and doubt, which are human creations, don't really exist anyway so why worry. Wherever you go anything you ever loved is going the same way. This is my favorite song, btw.

I agree with you though about it (the album) being a lot to take in. It's pretty emotional and engaged. As for Kid A being more high-concept, well to me Kid A and Amnesiac are two sides of the same coin, so I don't know if I agree with you there. You are probably right, though. I couldn't really get into Amnesiac like I mentioned before until I listed to Kid A 73 times. You are correct to say that Kid A is much more mellowed out and a lonlier album, much like some of Aphex Twin's work particularly on Selected Works, than Amnesiac. I suppose that could make it more accessible than the latter, which sometimes seems a little biased toward the way of the world. (knives out)

I will definitely be getting this. ​D

It is awesome. One problem- no album art ​.

I'm annoyed. I haven't yet received my download info from them.

160 kbps no thanks I'm gonna illegally get the boxset instead.

good job fucking up Radiohead!

it sounds fine and its awesome 160kbps is not a "terrible bitrate" its entirely adequate

if you got shitty speakers maybe but cymbals always sound washed out as fuck to me at that bitrate!

I really don't like listening to much below 192. and it's more the principle of the fact that some people did PAY for it and they should at least get a good bitrate.