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Manic Street Preachers Slam Radiohead For 'Ruining Music'

Nicky Wire speaks out...

  • by Scott Colothan
  • Friday, December 07, 2007
  • Photo by: wenn
  • filed in: Indie Rock
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Manic Street Preachers have controversially slammed Radiohead accusing the Oxford band of “demeaning” music by releasing their album ‘In Rainbows’ as a ‘pay what you want’ download.

The ever outspoken Nicky Wire from the Welsh trio believes that by allowing fans to decide their own price, such a move could have serious reverberations in the music industry.

Wire said: “Fair play to Radiohead for doing something different. It’s certainly great publicity but I think it kind of demeans music.

“Music used to be a market, now it’s all gone digital. It’s worrying and it seems to be the way of the world at the moment.”

“Sales are doing well everywhere else. Cinema is doing well, video games are doing well but music isn’t. The free download phenomenon is ruining the industry.”

Continuing his rant, and totally unrelated to Radiohead, Wire turned is attention the way in which reality TV is saturating society.

He told the Daily Star: “I can’t bare the X Factor judges and the shit they put out every year. It’s just a load of untalented fuckwits that destroy the music industry.”
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  • Who cares, both bands are utter shit.

    ~ by a, hitler 12/7/2007

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    • Adolf you are talking absolute trash, you murderous bastard

      ~ by Boffin 12/7/2007

  • Who IS Manic Street Preachers??

    ~ by An American 12/7/2007

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    • Who IS Manic Street Preachers?? - by An American 1 day, 4 hrs ago EXACTLY

      ~ by asdf 12/8/2007

  • ”The free download phenomenon is ruining the industry.”......only if your music s**ks!

    ~ by nomusicnolife 12/7/2007

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  • the free download phenomenon is only be taken up by artist who are in it for the music not the money...his obviously in it for the money...o and his in a terrible band neways! im not a gret fan of radiohead but well done to em! not every1 can afford to by all the music they like!

    ~ by m a 12/7/2007

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  • what a moron...

    ~ by tedelmecanico.blogspot.com 12/7/2007

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  • he’s only fucked off coz he hasnt recorded anything decent this millenium

    ~ by fi 12/7/2007

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  • “Music used to be a market, now it’s all gone digital. It’s worrying and it seems to be the way of the world at the moment.” - someone tell this guy we’re in 2007. :-)

    ~ by uptight 12/8/2007

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  • radiohead are great, as are the manics. you people are all TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO different. keep listening to arcade fire. hang, they’re popular now too! don’t listen to them then, your credibility would be forever ruined

    ~ by maggotbrain 12/8/2007

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  • Well said Nicky Wire, at last someone who will stand up and tell it like it is!!

    ~ by themanfromdelmonte 12/10/2007

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  • To the guy who said that the Manics have not recorded anything deent this Millenium......have you not heard the new manics album???????? Two bands that have stood the test of time (Manics & Radiohead), and two bands that stand head and shoulders above most of the shite that is around at the moment.

    ~ by petewasbristol 12/10/2007

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  • i wish nicky wire would just shut the fuck up

    ~ by HALINA 12/10/2007

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  • i wish nicky wire would just shut the fuck up.

    ~ by halina 12/10/2007

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  • i think wire is totally right and respect to him for having the balls to say so

    ~ by Aaron Jones 12/10/2007

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  • go on the wire, tell it how it is, i say build some more fuckin bypasses over this shit hole, (brilliant lol)!!

    ~ by flightest 12/10/2007

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  • its clear he means that its ruining the ’industry’ as a business but hes maybe being a bit of a joey deacon here because the manics have release 3 (i think) tracks this year on free download including one for christmas. What radiohead have done is absolutely brilliant. The band should really get the larger amount of the money from their records rather than the other way around! Having said that Radiohead tickets are £40 this year...so theyll make up any loss! Manics Were 25 quid

    ~ by Thom Dean Greenwood 12/18/2007

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  • Nick wires a bloody legend.

    ~ by EC 3/9/2008

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