Yorke says, ''the record companies basically don't want to pay the artists at all for the downloading.'' Without a contract, it can decide exactly how it wants to sell its recordings, which has left the band with ''too many variables,'' he adds. Radiohead has been one of the holdouts against having their music sold on iTunes, Apple's online music store, because, Mr. ''The truth is that the traditional medium is still there, and you need it,'' he says. A company still needs to press CD's and get them to stores. Yorke ruled out purely digital distribution because fans elsewhere - Russia or South America, for instance - are not so well connected. Although it seems that every last one of Radiohead's American and European fans is online, Mr. Radiohead hasn't resolved the question of how to release its new material. I came across this Thom Yorke article from last year, which in hindsight is kind of interesting, if only because it's clear they've been thinking about this whole thing for a long time now.
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