This message was posted with two links, where you can find the download and, the website of the international movement using peaceful civil disobedience ‘to fight the climate and ecological emergency and protect biodiversity and atmospheric health’. Never intended for public consumption (though some clips did reach the cassette in the OK Computer reissue) it’s only tangentially interesting. So for £18, you can find out if we should have paid that ransom. So instead of complaining – or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion. ‘We got hacked last week –someone stole Thon’s minidisk archive from around the time OK Computer, and reportedly demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it. (Luckily, there’s a helpful fan-made Google Doc that provides as close to a tracklist as we’ll get.As usual, Radiohead is turning an act of felony into a class act. On Tuesday morning, Jonny Greenwood posted this on social media:

Any fan of the band is going to want to listen to mid-’90s versions of “True Love Waits,” “Lift” and “Nude.” But not every fan is going to want to sift through the hours of Greenwood’s noodling on the synth, the plentiful same-but-different editions of “Subterranean Homesick Alien” or even just the band hanging out to get to those tracks. Greenwood is downplaying the interesting content here, but only to a degree. So for £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom. So instead of complaining-much-or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion. We got hacked last week-someone stole Thom’s minidisc archive from around the time of OK Computer, and reportedly demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it. In the same press release, Jonny Greenwood made a statement on the situation: All proceeds from the sessions will go directly to Extinction Rebellion, described in a press release as “a socio-political movement which uses nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.” The band uploaded nearly 18 hours of recordings from the OK Computer sessions, now titled MINIDISCS, onto their Bandcamp page, asking £18 (~$22). Following last week’s leaks, Radiohead have taken matters into their own hands.

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