Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has commented about changes in music consumption the day after the download-only release of Harry Patch (In Memory of).
In an interview with Believer magazine, Yorke spoke about “hating” CDs, a view that supports the download-only single and initial online release of In Rainbows. Yorke goes on to say that the CD format kept the old music industry alive like a zombie.
THE BELIEVER: In some ways, the way Internet singles work is close to the way things used to be with the music industry in the ’50s, before full-lengths were the thing, and radio singles were what defined artists.
THOM YORKE: Right, and if you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it’s possible to do that—because these are people’s livelihoods we’re talking about—and you look at it in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it’s completely different. In some ways, that’s the best way of looking at it. I mean, I don’t spend my fucking life downloading free MP3s, because I hate the websites. No one seems to know what they’re talking about. I’d much rather go to sites like Boomkat, where people know what they’re talking about.
It’s brilliant. To me, that’s a business model. It’s like when I used to go to music shops in Oxford. You’re looking at this and you’re looking at that and there’s a whole line of other things going down the side saying, “You’ll probably like this,” and “You might like this.”
THE BELIEVER: I love those stores where everything’s hand-selected and the clerks write little descriptions about the music.
THOM YORKE: Yeah, and you can listen to it all. I mean, Boomkat is very specific with the type of stuff they flog there, but I can’t see why that wouldn’t work for all music.
(via The Guardian)
Radiohead news on this day..
- New Stanley Donwood exhibitions in San Francisco and Rome – 2010
- Radiohead Live In Montreal [live report] – 2008
- O’Riley tunes in Radiohead – 2004
- Radiohead in Salamanca – 2003
- HAIL TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER – 2003
- ’7 TELEVISION COMMERCIALS’ DVD RELEASED WORLDWIDE – 2003
- MANSFIELD SHOW TO BE BROADCAST LIVE – 2003
- 6TH GOLDEN RECORD FOR HAIL TO THE THIEF – 2003
- Porto video of ‘There There’ – 2002





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