Sunday 20 February 2011

Radiohead Week - 10

Also, lest we forget this. For those of you who don't know, it was recorded illicitly by a Radiohead taper, "hoserama", during a souncheck in 2008 somehwere in the US (if I remember rightly). He then decided not to release the song for the enjoyment of fans, but rather insist that he would only trade it for a bootleg recording of equivalent value in terms of rarity and quality. But, of course, there is nothing of equivalent value, so all we are left with are these 75 seconds, which he circulated to qualify his veritability. Some fans booed and hissed his selfishness, others praised his resourcefulness and generosity (not without, in my opinion, a conscious desire to entice some more out of him). I fell into the former group. Wanker.

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