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. Funds will go to climate change activism group Extinction Rebellion.Last week, online Radiohead obsessives hit the motherlode. For the next 18 days fans can download the 18 mini disks and 18 hours worth of material for just £18. In sum, the hacker’s plan totally backfired. That way, fans can still enjoy the collection of music they call “not v interesting.” They added, “it may as well be out there.” Well, Radiohead took matters into their own hands and decided to release the music on their own free will. Either pony up the dough, or the stolen sessions would be released to the public. Radiohead just uploaded approximately 18 hours worth of material from the band’s OK Computerera - and the reasoning behind the unexpected release is quite interesting.Īpparently a hacker got ahold of some mini disc files recorded from 1995 – 1998 and demanded a ransom in the value of $150,000, giving the iconic group an ultimatum.
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