We’ll judge the “not v interesting” thing for ourselves! Here’s the full 18-hour stream: The proceeds will go to Extinction Rebellion If you want it, you can buy the whole lot here Meanwhile, on their Bandcamp page, the band writes: Never intended for public consumption (though some random clips did reach cassette in the OK Computer reissue) it’s only tangentially interesting. So for £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom. So instead of complaining - much - or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion. We got hacked last week - someone stole thom’s minidisk archive from around the time of OK Computer, and apparently demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it. They’re charging £18 - about $23 - and donating all the proceeds to the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion. So instead, they’ve posted the whole thing on Bandcamp, where it will remain for just 18 days - or until the band decides to take it down. On Twitter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood writes that someone stole Thom Yorke’s archive of minidiscs and tried to use them to blackmail the band, threatening to post the entire archive online if the band didn’t pay a whole lot of money. The band has also told the whole story about the leak. Radiohead have gone ahead and released all of that music - all 18 hours - and it’s yours for an exceedingly low price. But then there was the ethical quandary: Did you really want to hear all this Radiohead music that the band didn’t want you to hear? That quandary is no longer an issue.
Radiohead fans tend to be an online bunch, one well-suited to sorting through ephemera, and they started a shared Google doc just to keep track of everything in that vast leaked data-dump. Eighteen hours of outtakes from the recording of the band’s 1997 masterpiece OK Computer - enough music to make the 2017 reissue OKNOTOK 1997-2017 seem absolutely paltry - leaked online. Last week, online Radiohead obsessives hit the motherlode.
0 kommentar(er)
