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Radiohead has released a vast collection of unreleased tracks made during sessions of the 1997 album, Computer Computer, after a MiniDisc archive owned by singer Thom Yorke was hacked last week by an unknown person, who would have held the ransom records for $ 150,000.
The band has now completed the 18 MiniDisc recordings, most of which are about an hour old, available on Bandcamp for £ 18. The profits will go to climate activists, Extinction Rebellion.
The group's guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, confirmed the piracy by stating, "Instead of complaining – a lot – or ignoring it, we are releasing every 18 hours on Bandcamp for the benefit of Extinction Rebellion. Just for the next 18 days. So for £ 18, you can find out if we should have paid this ransom. Never intended for public consumption (although some clips have reached the tape in the reissue OK Computer), it has only a tangible interest. And very, very long. Not a phone download. "
Thom Yorke wrote about the 1.8 gigabyte collection: "It's not interesting. There are a lot of them … just like he is there, he could just as well be there until we all get bored and move on to something else.
Extinction Rebellion thanked the group, describing his gift as an "unprecedented support". Radiohead has authorized the use of their Idioteque song for a new promotional video Extinction Rebellion. "The climate and the ecological emergency require more than ever courage, truth and generosity," the group said. "We are very grateful to Radiohead for showing us how this happened, both now and in the period leading up to the April rebellion. Words are inadequate but actions change the world. "
The piracy was first addressed a week ago on a Radiohead page of the Reddit website, where a user explained he was offered to sell the files. "Initially, we planned to put our money together, while our enthusiasm for the rare opportunity to share information of such historical interest for a group we loved was at its peak, but we were concerned about the ethics of the situation, "they wrote. "According to [the leaker], they got all the 18 hours of material by exchanging another rare / unpublished material. "
The files are a treasure for Radiohead fans. In addition to demo versions of OK Computer tracks, they offer a full-group version of True Love Waits, a live favorite that was eventually recorded in a piano arrangement for the 2016 album, A Moon Shaped Pool. An alternative version of Lift is very popular on the Reddit forum. This song was included in the 20th anniversary edition of OK Computer – the alternative version, at the mark of ten minutes of the recording of the MD125, presents a hymn rock arrangement.
The collection opens with a version of Exit Music (For a Film) with alternative lyrics, including the "living in a glbad house" line, which was later taken to Life in a Glbadhouse on Amnesiac. Disc three contains an 11-minute version of Paranoid Android, OK Computer's single, while unpublished songs include Attention and Hurts to Walk. There is also a brief excerpt from Thom Yorke's beatboxing. Fans have put online a document that describes the identity and likely provenance of each piece.
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