'Misery will be compulsory, if top rockers Radiohead have their way.'

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Radiohead backs WWII-style austerity program ... 'Music for a new society, you Creep?'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/10/radiohead_wartime_misery/
'The band have thrown their weight behind a "World War 2"-style programme of austerity measures: including restrictions on behaviour, and higher taxes.Singer Thom Yorke told The Observer:"Unless you have laws in place, nothing's going to happen", he said.'Music for a new society?'Millions chose torrents over Radiohead's own site - survey.'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/radiohead_rainbows_millions_of_torrents/At least 2.3 million people preferred to download Radiohead's In Rainbows from torrent sites rather than the band's own site, a survey this week reports, even though the cost was the same: Zero.Plus RH have said there will be no further 'freebies'. Getting the taste for corporate back handers to help you fund your personal 'Climate Change Fraud' agenda Yorke? We'll get the freebies allright don't you worry, and then some!'You can pry my email address from my cold, dead hands.''Thom Yorke was born in '68, so He's 40 this year.'http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=18379.msg94640#msg94640"Like a lot of art school drop-outs that I know, they seem to dwell in this kind of relatvistic/abstractivist world-view, in which basically any whim that passes through their skulls can be rationalized away. How post-modern, right?Like those same people, they're right in freaking out about creeping fascism, but they think the U.N will save us, of course. I could go on and on, but the thing you have to realize about the modern artist type is that more often than not, they are all about sensation, and little more- unlike the artist as outsider/individualist, these guys avoid any hardcore critical thinking in order to maintain their relativistic bubbles."