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Radiohead's Thom Yorke denigrates Spotify as the ‘the last desperate fart of a dying corpse’

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By John Glenday, Reporter

October 7, 2013 | 2 min read

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has renewed a long-running feud with music streaming service Spotify by denouncing it as ‘the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.’

Yorke deployed the colourful language in recognition of the platform's fifth birthday during an interview with Mexican website Sopitas.

In it Yorke railed: “I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

"But it's all about how we change the way we listen to music, it's all about what happens next in terms of technology, in terms of how people talk to each other about music, and a lot of it could be really fucking bad.

"To me this isn't the mainstream, this is is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse. What happens next is the important part," he told Sopitas, before suggesting that the music industry should rethink its backing for certain new business models.

“It's like this mind trick going on, people are like 'with technology, it's all going to become one in the cloud and all creativity is going to become one thing and no one is going to get paid and it's this big super intelligent thing'. Bullshit.”

Yorke, who now plays with Atoms for Peace, has elected to pull his material from Spotify and other streaming services in a bitter row over royalties.

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