Thom Yorke Attacks 'Isolated' Internet Users

Whilst Radiohead album goes on iTunes...

January 05, 2008 by C Taylor

Thom Yorke Attacks 'Isolated' Internet Users

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has attacked “isolated” serial internet users, despite his band embracing the web.

The singer-songwriter believes too many people now spend the majority of their time on the internet living alternative lives - whereas he still prefers the ‘real world’.

He says, “I don't want that. It lays bare the isolation of many internet users, who've got too much time on their hands. Sad.

"I prefer expressing myself in the real world.”

Talking of the internet, Radiohead have had a radical change of mind concerning iTunes.

Despite releasing their last album ‘In Rainbows’ themselves over the internet and refusing to let the online retailer sell individual tracks because they felt the album must be consumed whole, iTunes are now offering the album and its individual tracks for download.

What a fiendishly clever marketing scheme it‘s all been.

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Damn this is the first time ive disagreed with thom yorke...i dont think there are people who spend ALL their time on the internet and if so its very few people. It seems that anyone over 30 years old these days believe that we spend all our time on the internet because of assumptions and what the tv and the radio tells you. Thom probably goes on the internet loads too with all the updates to dead air space - he is probably on as much as the average young person.
~ by Jimbo 1/5/2008 Report
I love Radiohead but for christ’s sake they’re really trying to squeeze every penny out of this album for a band that’s always been somewhat anti-corperate. Then Thom goes and calls a fair chunk of their fanbase ’sad’, he certainly may be right about isolated internet fans, but it’s their choice, nice one Thom, you’re really coming across as a massive twat these days, and that’s saying something for someone who’s always defended him.
~ by Daves 1/5/2008 Report
Shut up idiots, he’s talking about one isolated site not the internet in general. Wankers.
~ by Milos 1/5/2008 Report
Yes, I read the article and he was talking about Second Life.
~ by Rich 1/5/2008 Report
Again it looks like Thom Yorke has been mis-quoted, comments being over-exxagerated. But it does seem like he’s looking for clever, maybe even controversial things to say. Obviously it means more exposure for the record, but it’s probably popular enough already...
~ by jamiem 1/6/2008 Report