Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by staticautomatic on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:58AM (#20175502)

My point is only this: If in 1997 you'd told me that the people who wrote OK Computer would later be unashamedly using a world-dominating platform built by fitter happier people whose ambition, I was told, makes them look pretty ugly, I would not have believed you.

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by majormajor on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:24PM (#20176908)

Remember you're talking about a very popular band that was making full use of 90s world-dominating mainstream media platforms that were run by douchebags then too.

But now we're in Tool territory instead of Radiohead territory https://genius.com/Tool-hooker-with-a-penis-lyrics

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by staticautomatic on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:44PM (#20177084)

Is your point that I shouldn't be surprised because they've always been hypocrites in this regard?

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by dondawest on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:14PM (#20190630)

I’m fully in agreement with you dude. Hypocrisy among artists who take a stand is hella annoying. It’s like the White Stripes swearing they’d never get a bass player, only to get a bass player.

They literally made an album describing in detail how technology was bad for humans and now they are beholden to the same technology they once critiqued.

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:48AM (#20176002)

> a world-dominating platform built by fitter happier people

... I guess I need an Instagram account.

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by staticautomatic on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:11PM (#20176231)

Is that sarcasm or have you just never listened to Fitter Happier?

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by ficklepickle on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:44PM (#20177549)

Angsty young artists either become better adjusted to their environment as they get older, or they die.

It happens all the time as bands age. The inner turmoil makes for great art, but it isn't sustainable.

It doesn't make the art any less real.

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by Dirlewanger on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:19AM (#20175683)

Not everyone has Fugazi-esque morals.

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Re:Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threate... by asdff on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:22PM (#20176346)

Radiohead did when they released hail to the thief.

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