![]() There is a slight catch: Radiohead will only sell the collection for 18 days. Titled Minidiscs, it’s available to download for a minimum of 18 British pounds, or roughly $22.90 USD customers can opt to pay more, as the band will donate all proceeds from the recordings to the environmentalist campaign Extinction Rebellion. To make things easier on everyone - including those fans who would undoubtedly hunt down the tracks should the hacker release them, and the band, who would have to go through piracy litigation to try to stop them from spreading online - Radiohead decided to sell the 18-track, nearly 18-hour collection of recordings through its Bandcamp page. So, previously unheard recordings from that era of the band’s discography are surely of interest to its rabid fan base, among others. Released in June 1997, it was credited with introducing a new take on the flagging Britpop genre and steering Radiohead toward global stardom. OK Computer is regarded as one of Radiohead’s most successful, important albums. “We got hacked last week - someone stole Thom ’s minidisk archive from around the time of OK Computer, and reportedly demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it,” Greenwood wrote in an email, shared as a screenshot. Jonny Greenwood, the band’s longtime lead guitarist and keyboardist, unceremoniously announced the release via Twitter on June 11. Instead, the band made the stolen tunes available to purchase online, with proceeds going to charity. After a hacker stole 18 hours’ worth of unreleased music that the band recorded during the late ’90s, one of its peak creative periods, Radiohead didn’t fight to keep the tracks out of the public ear. ![]() When music pirates go low, Radiohead goes high.
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