A Little Wisdom From Radiohead’s Thom Yorke
Arguably the biggest music news story of the last 12 months was Radiohead’s giveaway album. No single act has more clearly defined the shifting face of the music business in the new millennium. But for anyone declaring the worthiness of the new ‘Radiohead model’, think again.
The ‘Radiohead model’ is just that, Radiohead’s model and it ain’t going to work as well for any other band, especially a developing indie one. In Thom Yorke’s own words:
“The only reason we could even get away with this, the only reason anyone even gives a shit, is the fact that we’ve gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place. It’s not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation. We’re out of contract. We have our own studio. We have this new server. What the hell else would we do? This was the obvious thing. But it only works for us because of where we are.”
From Wired:
