Radiohead, Yorke's full-time band which is at work on another album, dropped “In Rainbows” as a choose-your-own-price download in 2007, an experiment that today has largely been perceived as a success. Moby, Madonna and other artists have previously experimented with releasing music in the form of bundle packages, although those downloads were available for free. I am trying something new, don't know how it will go. “If it works well, it could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to the people who are creating the work…enabling those people who either make music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves,” Yorke said in a statement provided by BitTorrent. Three files on Kickass attracted over 2,000 users, a number that will only climb as more fans learn about Yorke’s release. Nearly 1,500 “seeders” were hosting the file on the Pirate Bay, with a similar number distributing the album on Kickass Torrents, Torrentz, and elsewhere. Yorke has been vocal on the subject of Internet piracy, which has crippled the music industry over the past decade, and last year criticized Spotify as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.” Yet, for all of Yorke’s willingness to try something new, thousands of fans didn’t hesitate to illegally distribute “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” within hours of its release. Yorke, who’s collaborating with BitTorrent (the creator of uTorrent and the new cloud service BitTorrent Sync), previously made headlines for deciding to release Radiohead’s 2007 album “In Rainbows” online, with fans able to choose how much they wanted to pay.

Yet “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” was immediately uploaded to popular piracy sites like the Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, another stark reminder that even when an artist releases a low priced torrent file of his work, it’s nearly impossible to avoid illegal downloads.Īt eight tracks long, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” is available for $6 in MP3, FLAC or WAV downloads, with fans able to buy a vinyl LP for $30. When Thom Yorke dropped a surprise album online Friday he explained it as an “experiment” meant to give artists control over their work again. For deciding to release Radiohead's 2007 album “In Rainbows” online. 'Tomorrow's Modern Boxes' Downloads: Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents. The ID3 tags are all pretty and organized and I added all the artwork. Queen Discography MP3 format 320Kbps I used a Discography of Queen 320Kbps I had already, but it lacked organization and a few albums, so I added them and renamed the files, etc.

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