So, previously unheard recordings from that era of the band’s discography are surely of interest to its rabid fan base, among others. Released in June 1997, it was credited with introducing a new take on the flagging Britpop genre and steering Radiohead toward global stardom. OK Computer is regarded as one of Radiohead’s most successful, important albums.
“We got hacked last week - someone stole Thom ’s minidisk archive from around the time of OK Computer, and reportedly demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it,” Greenwood wrote in an email, shared as a screenshot. Jonny Greenwood, the band’s longtime lead guitarist and keyboardist, unceremoniously announced the release via Twitter on June 11. Instead, the band made the stolen tunes available to purchase online, with proceeds going to charity. After a hacker stole 18 hours’ worth of unreleased music that the band recorded during the late ’90s, one of its peak creative periods, Radiohead didn’t fight to keep the tracks out of the public ear. Purchases were handled by _Xurbia_Xendless, the secure server owned by W.A.S.T.E.When music pirates go low, Radiohead goes high. The download was hosted by W.A.S.T.E., the official Radiohead fanclub. ISRC was listed as GB-STK-07-000# (where # is the track number, 01 through 10). Copyright was listed as _XURBIA_XENDLESS LIMITED. No album art was contained in the ZIP file.Īlong with the typical Artist Name, Track Title, Album Title, Date and Track Number fields, the ID3 tag included a Copyright and ISRC tag. The digital album came as a 48.4MB zip file containing 10 x 160kbps DRM-free MP3s, encoded with LAME version 3.93. The download area closed down on December 10th, 2007.Ī personalized link to the album was emailed to you after your purchase of either the stand-alone digital album or the discbox (available at the fixed price of £40). A credit card fee of £0.45 if you chose to pay any amount. Radiohead's seventh studio album was initially only available as a download from for as much as one wished to pay (from free to £99).
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