Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has elaborated on his crusade against Spotify, telling Sopitas.com that musicians do not need the service and online streaming amounts to ‘the last desperate fart of a dying corpse’.
“When we did the ‘In Rainbows’ thing what was most exciting was the idea you could have a direct connection between you as a musician and your audience,” he said. “You cut all of it out, it’s just that and that. And then all these fuckers get in a way, like Spotify suddenly trying to become the gatekeepers to the whole process.
“We don’t need you to do it. No artists needs you to do it. We can build the shit ourselves, so fuck off. But because they’re using old music, because they’re using the majors… the majors are all over it because they see a way of re-selling all their old stuff for free, make a fortune, and not die. That’s why to me, Spotify the whole thing, is such a massive battle, because it’s about the future of all music. It’s about whether we believe there’s a future in music, same with the film industry, same with books.”
“To me this isn’t the mainstream, this is is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse. What happens next is the important part.”
Yorke, together with his Atoms For Peace collaborator Nigel Godrich, helped to further ignite the debate about Spotify when they pulled their music from the platform in July.
What a pretentious prat T(h)om Yorke is … thinks he is “down with the kids” when, in fact, he is completely out of touch with how people actually listen to music these days. Oh … and Thom! …. a corpse is already dead, thus cannot by “dying”