Radiohead released 18 hours of minidisc recordings rather than pay a ransom
Made when they were developing the album OK Computer, their frontman was hacked and the contents of 18 minidiscs was stolen. Rather than pay a ransom of $150,000 to return the recordings, Radiohead is releasing them to anybody via Bandcamp and all the proceeds are going to the climate activists Extinction Rebellion.
I think this is quite awesome. Flipping the bird to the hacker who stole a copy of the recordings, rendering his efforts valueless, helping a good cause, and providing something to people who might value them. Some of the tracks have already been made available to the public, but Radiohead is being quite forward with saying that these tracks are works in progress and very rough and not very good, so don't expect much out of them.
Me personally, Radiohead is not my cup of tea, but some of you may like them or have friends who are fans and might be interested, so I thought I'd spread the news. The Bandcamp release is only going to be up for a very limited amount of time, and is available for the next 18 days.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/11/radiohead-release-hours-of-hacked-songs-to-benefit-extinction-rebellion
Here's the Bandcamp link. It's 1.8 GIG of material, so make sure you have a good connection! The discs are released as one entire image, so you'll be effectively listening to one contiguous album with no breaks in it.
https://radiohead.bandcamp.com/
Bandcamp is a great place to explore new music, and they pay a lot of money to artists, both starting out and more established. Highly recommended.
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I think this is quite awesome. Flipping the bird to the hacker who stole a copy of the recordings, rendering his efforts valueless, helping a good cause, and providing something to people who might value them. Some of the tracks have already been made available to the public, but Radiohead is being quite forward with saying that these tracks are works in progress and very rough and not very good, so don't expect much out of them.
Me personally, Radiohead is not my cup of tea, but some of you may like them or have friends who are fans and might be interested, so I thought I'd spread the news. The Bandcamp release is only going to be up for a very limited amount of time, and is available for the next 18 days.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/11/radiohead-release-hours-of-hacked-songs-to-benefit-extinction-rebellion
Here's the Bandcamp link. It's 1.8 GIG of material, so make sure you have a good connection! The discs are released as one entire image, so you'll be effectively listening to one contiguous album with no breaks in it.
https://radiohead.bandcamp.com/
Bandcamp is a great place to explore new music, and they pay a lot of money to artists, both starting out and more established. Highly recommended.
This entry was originally posted at https://thewayne.dreamwidth.org/1143766.html. Please comment there using OpenID.