Trent Reznor Attacks Quality Of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Release

He calls them insincere...

by Daniel Melia
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Trent Reznor Attacks Quality Of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Release

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Trent Reznor has attacked Radiohead over the digital release of ‘In Rainbows’ calling them “insincere”.

Despite the fact that NiN recently followed in Radiohead’s footsteps by releasing new album ‘Ghosts’ digitally Reznor says he still has a few problems with the Oxford quintets release.

The main problem he has with ‘In Rainbows’ is the quality of the download version which he described as “low qulaity”.

Speaking to ABC he said: "What they did was a cool thing; I think the way they parlayed it into a marketing gimmick has certainly been shrewd.

But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream as a way to promote a very traditional record sale."

He added: "There's nothing wrong with that - I but don't see that as a big revolution [that] they're kinda getting credit for."

"What they did right: they surprised the world with a new record, and it was available digitally first.

“What they did wrong: by making it such a low quality thing, not even including artwork ... to me that feels insincere."

Reznor has grossed in the region of $750,000 from the sale of the deluxe edition of ‘Ghsosts’ which sold out despite costing $300.

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Trent Reznor was the one who came out and said Radiohead were genius before anyone else did. He was the one that announced to the world that they started a revoultion with ”In Rainbows”. Now that he has done it himself, he wants the credit. Fuck off Reznor.
~ by opguru 3/13/2008
Its true that Radiohead should haved put 320kps - 48,000Hz - Normal Stereo mp3. The arriving of CD in the late 80’s was a revolution for the sound quality and now we are all messing it up with 128kps low quality mp3... and we listen to that on small hearbuds with an iPod... man!
~ by mu6 3/13/2008
Well done Reznor...
~ by Mike 3/13/2008
i didn’t even notice the “low qulaity”
~ by CJ 3/14/2008
The online distribution of In Rainbows was never meant to be groundbreaking or revolutionary. It was simply meant to get some new music out to fans, and hey if they wanted to pay for it, so be it. By the way, neither Radiohead OR NIN were the first to digitally distribute an album online. That honor goes to The Smashing Pumpkins with Machina II. It was (and still is) available free of charge and lossless quality.
~ by Rompulent 3/14/2008