Radiohead Just Released 18 Hours Of Unreleased Music Before Some Idiot Hacker Did

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    Radiohead Just Released 18 Hours Of Unreleased Music Before Some Idiot Hacker Did
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    L: Radiohead, Photo by Jim Bennett/FilmMagic 

    The best way to deal with bullies threatening to leak something of yours? Jump the gun and leak it yourself. Like Sia before them, who found out that someone was selling her nudes and instead released the nude in question herself, Radiohead have dealt with a hacker threatening to release a whole stack of their unreleased tunes circa OK Computer by dumping it all online anyway. Take that, hacker.

    As the band's guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood explained on his socials, singer Thom Yorke's "minidisk archive" from around the seminal 1997 album was apparently stolen, with the perpetrator threatening to release it all if they weren't sent $150,000 from the band.

    The band went, 'nah, fuck it', and released all 18 hours on Bandcamp, with fans able to stream it all for free or pay £18 (or $33 AUD) to digitally download it. All proceeds would go to a not-for-profit organisation called Extinction Rebellion, fighting climate change and the world's imminent ecological collapse.

    You can listen to all the demos here. 

    Your move, hacker.

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Radiohead
L: Radiohead, Photo by Jim Bennett/FilmMagic 

The best way to deal with bullies threatening to leak something of yours? Jump the gun and leak it yourself. Like Sia before them, who found out that someone was selling her nudes and instead released the nude in question herself, Radiohead have dealt with a hacker threatening to release a whole stack of their unreleased tunes circa OK Computer by dumping it all online anyway. Take that, hacker.

As the band's guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood explained on his socials, singer Thom Yorke's "minidisk archive" from around the seminal 1997 album was apparently stolen, with the perpetrator threatening to release it all if they weren't sent $150,000 from the band.

The band went, 'nah, fuck it', and released all 18 hours on Bandcamp, with fans able to stream it all for free or pay £18 (or $33 AUD) to digitally download it. All proceeds would go to a not-for-profit organisation called Extinction Rebellion, fighting climate change and the world's imminent ecological collapse.

You can listen to all the demos here. 

Your move, hacker.

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