Interesting article in Wired this week with David Byrne interviewing Thom Yorke - getting his thoughts on the current state of the music industry, as well as talking about the recent ‘pay-what-you-want’ release of the last Radiohead album:

Byrne: What about bands that are just getting started?

Yorke: Well, first and foremost, you don’t sign a huge record contract that strips you of all your digital rights, so that when you do sell something on iTunes you get absolutely zero. That would be the first priority. If you’re an emerging artist, it must be frightening at the moment. Then again, I don’t see a downside at all to big record companies not having access to new artists, because they have no idea what to do with them now anyway.

Byrne: It should be a load off their minds.

Yorke: Exactly.

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