Robert Smith 'Violently Disagrees' With Radiohead Release Method
Published Friday, 20th February, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Robert Smith of The Cure "disagrees" with the unique way Radiohead sold their acclaimed album 'In Rainbows'.
Initially, Thom Yorke and Co. made their 2007 album available as a download, which listeners were able to choose whatever they wanted to pay to download the songs.
But the singer suggests that by doing so, the band have devalued their music. "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed violently with that." Smith tells The Times.
"You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense."
"If I put a value on my music and no-one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan, it can't work."
