<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:480px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/51e4044ceab8ea5b7b000000-1200-924/thom-yorke-radiohead-spotify-1.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="thom yorke radiohead spotify" width="480" style="float: right;" /><p class="source">Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images</p><p class="caption">Yorke tweeted about his decision to pull his <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">music</keyword> from <keyword id="685487" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Spotify">Spotify</keyword>.</p></div></div>English rocker and <keyword id="222550" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Radiohead">Radiohead</keyword> frontman <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke">Thom Yorke</a> fancies himself a champion of the meek, opting to yank his music from Spotify in defense of emerging artists.</p>
<p>The albums "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amok-Atoms-For-Peace/dp/B00AIFTHFG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373898017&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=amok">AMOK</a>," a collaborative project with Atoms for Peace, and Yorke's solo album "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eraser-Thom-Yorke/dp/B000FPYNR6/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373898030&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+eraser">The Eraser</a>" disappeared from the streaming service over the weekend.</p>
<p>Yorke and his producer <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod">Nigel Godrich</a>, whose album credits include Radiohead and Paul McCartney, took to Twitter to explain, <span>calling the decision a "small meaningless rebellion."</span></p>
<p>Yorke broke it down for musicians:</p>
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<p>Make no mistake new artists you discover on <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Spotify&amp;src=hash">#Spotify</a> will no get paid. meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples.</p> — <keyword id="1113138" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Thom-Yorke">Thom Yorke</keyword> (@thomyorke) <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke/statuses/356472397479686145">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>...and defended himself against fans who missed the music:</p>
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<p>“your small meaningless rebellion is only hurting your fans ... a drop in the bucket really” No we're standing up for our fellow musicians</p>
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke/statuses/356473323489722370">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Godrich described the withdrawal as a call for change:</span></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>The reason is that new artists get paid fuck all with this model.. It's an equation that just doesn't work</p> — <keyword id="1741399" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Nigel-Godrich">nigel godrich</keyword> (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356457740832473090">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>The numbers don't even add up for spotify yet.. But it's not about that.. It's about establishing the model which will be extremely valuable</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356459152907845632">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Spotify responded to the backlash in a <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/15/spotify-defends-payment-system-in-face-of-thom-yorke-boycott/">statement</a> on Monday, saying that it's already in the early stages of a project that will benefit new artists:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Spotify’s goal is to grow a service which people love, ultimately want to pay for, and which will provide the financial support to the music industry necessary to invest in new talent and music. We want to help artists connect with their fans, find new audiences, grow their fan base and make a living from the music we all love.<span> </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“We’ve already paid US$500m to rights holders so far and by the end of 2013 this number will reach US$1bn. Much of this money is being invested in nurturing new talent and producing great new music."</p>
<p>Yorke joins a rapidly growing list of artists pissed off at streaming services, including Led Zeppelin and smaller but no less vocal combatants <a href="&lt;blockquote%20class=" twitter-tweet=""><p><a%20href="https: twitter.com="" nigelgod="">@nigelgod</a%20href="https:></p></a>%20exactly...%20I%20had%20everything%20on%20my%20label%20taken%20off.%20Don't%20want%20to%20be%20part%20of%20this%20crap.</p>—%20Four%20Tet%20(@FourTet)%20<a%20href="https: twitter.com="" FourTet="" statuses="">July%2014,%202013%20<script%20async%20src=" platform.twitter.com="" widgets.js20charset="utf-8">"&gt;FourTet, Grizzly Bear, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/david-lowery-camper-van-beethoven-pandora-plays-2013-6">Cracker, and Camper Van Beethoven</a>.</script%20async%20src="></a%20href="https:>

Radiohead Frontman Thom Yorke Calls Out Spotify For Screwing Over New Artists

<p>Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke has pulled his solo material, as well as music by his new band Atoms for Peace, from <keyword id="685487" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Spotify">Spotify</keyword>.</p>
<p>The tracks are already gone.</p>
<p>And in a series of Tweets, Yorke blasted the streaming music service:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>Make no mistake new artists you discover on <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Spotify&amp;src=hash">#Spotify</a> will no get paid. meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples.</p>
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke/statuses/356472397479686145">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>“your small meaningless rebellion is only hurting your fans ... a drop in the bucket really” No we're standing up for our fellow musicians</p>
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke/statuses/356473323489722370">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>for me In Rainbows was a statement of trust .people still value new music ..that's all we'd like from Spotify. don't make us the target.</p>
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) <a href="https://twitter.com/thomyorke/statuses/356710964667744256">July 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Radiohead producer and Atoms for Peace collaborator Nigel Godrich further elucidated the move on Twitter:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>Anyway. Here's one. We're off of Spotify.. Can't do that no more man.. Small meaningless rebellion.</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356450604740116481">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Someone gotta say something. It's bad for new music..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356451091082260480">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>The reason is that new artists get paid fuck all with this model.. It's an equation that just doesn't work</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356457740832473090">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Godrich also highlights the bind artists find themselves in if they don't sign up for digital streaming services:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>Plus people are scared to speak up or not take part as they are told they will lose invaluable exposure if they don't play ball. Meanwhile..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356459510421925888">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Millions of streams gets them a few thousand dollars.. Not like radio at all..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356459651635757056">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>And he provides some insight into why after <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pink-floyd-reunited-to-pen-a-scathing-op-ed-about-pandoras-royalty-scheme-2013-6">railing against Pandora</a> in a recent op-ed, Pink Floyd recently <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CEEQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ftechnology%2F2013%2Fjun%2F17%2Fpink-floyd-back-catalogue-spotify&amp;ei=ORrkUaOUBNLG4APJvID4BA&amp;usg=AFQjCNEIy4dl8rQu_kZAFdQxknJmMj8NLg&amp;sig2=WgHhJsjqFfkzsJ2OBDsMWQ&amp;bvm=bv.48705608,d.dmg">added all its music to Spotify</a>. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CEAQFjAC&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spotify.com%2Fus%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F06%2F25%2Fthe-eagles%2F&amp;ei=JhrkUducJfG54AOi84DIBg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXr-gZuGGq0SLUeNl0V16TrTvDPw&amp;sig2=J1P31cQIl0bSBZJ1TNhkYA&amp;bvm=bv.48705608,d.dmg">The Eagles also just signed up</a>:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>Anyway. Thems the breaks. Opinions welcome.. but discussion and new thinking necessary.. If you have a massive catalogue - a major label...</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356459831453958144">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>..for example.. then you're quids in. It's money for old rope.. But making new recorded music needs funding.. Some records can be made in ..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356460119933992960">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>.. a laptop, but some need musician and skilled technicians.. These things cost money.. Pink floyds catalogue has already generated billions</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356460314264477697">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>.. of dollars for someone(not necessarily the band) so now putting it on a streaming site makes total sense.. But if people had been ..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356460525573521408">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>..listening to spotify instead of buying records in 1973... I doubt very much if dark side would have been made.. It would just be too ..</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356460752393084931">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>..expensive. Anyway thumbs hurting now... ;)</p>
— nigel godrich (@nigelgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/nigelgod/statuses/356460821301305344">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Radiohead Singer Thom Yorke Pulls His Music From Spotify, And Blasts It On Twitter

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/51e4042eecad04495200000b-1200-800/156233839.jpg" border="0" alt="thom yorke radiohead spotify"><p class="source"><span>Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Yorke continues to push the release strategy envelope.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been teasing a new solo album in <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/thom-yorke-throws-earth-off-its-axis-with-photo-of-mysterious-record/">cryptic tweets</a> all week, and now we finally have an official announcement from the man himself. It's worth getting excited over.</p>
<p>That solo album is available for purchase <a href="https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/d0b4beba8efc4b46f6dba119b511a5b2d5cabc96168c0dc097ee9d514059ab63">right now</a> via BitTorrent, becoming the first-ever paygated torrent in history. </p>
<p><a href="https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/tomorrowsmodernboxes">"Tomorrow's Modern Boxes"</a> is a follow-up to Yorke's 2006 solo debut "The Eraser" and the first new material from the Radiohead frontman since the release of Atoms For Peace's album "Amok" in February 2013. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">In a letter co-authored by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Yorke explains why he chose this unprecedented release strategy:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">"As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">The files can be anything, but in this case is an 'album'.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">It's an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around ...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or 'cloud' malarkey.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">It's a self-contained embeddable shop front ...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">Oh yes and it's called</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_323468537"><span class="aQJ">Tomorrow's</span></span> Modern Boxes</em>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">Thom Yorke &amp; Nigel Godrich"</p>
<p>The full album costs $6.00, but <a href="https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/tomorrowsmodernboxes">BitTorrent users</a> can obtain the audio and video of the album's first track "Brain in a Bottle" for free. </p>
<p>Radiohead <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/33749-radioheads-in-rainbows-successes-revealed/">broke ground in 2007</a> and took the industry by surprise by releasing "In Rainbows" with a "choose your own price" model, inspiring music websites like <a href="http://bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> and other outlets to adopt the technique. In 2011, they announced "The King of Limbs" at only a week's notice and released it as the world's first <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/41561-radiohead-to-release-new-album-this-saturday/">"newspaper album</a>." It's no surprise that the release of "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" continues this ambitious trend. <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></p>
<p>This could be a huge step forward for BitTorrent, as the service is primarily used for sharing pirated music illegally. According to a press release:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">"this partnership <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">marks the launch of the BitTorrent Bundle with paygates, which allows artists to monetize their Bundle content directly. Fans can download the album here and pay using a credit card or PayPal in 140 currencies. The publisher covers the transaction fees and BitTorrent takes 10% after that."</span></p>

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