Greenest Musicians: Radiohead

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Greenest Musicians: Radiohead

by Ellen Slattery (Subscribe to Ellen Slattery's posts)
Jan 14th 2008 @ 10:00AM

Filed under: Celebrities, Activism

On one hand, Thom Yorke and Co. are speaking out about global warming. In a 2006 interview with The Guardian, Yorke said, "Some of our best ever shows have been in the US, but there's 80,000 people there and they've all been sitting in traffic jams for five or six hours with their engines running to get there, which is bollocks." Bloody annoying, that. And while the band has threatened to stop playing these tours if caps are not put on carbon emissions from vehicles, in the meantime, they refuse to buy carbon offsets. They redeemed themselves, though, by making their newest album, In Rainbows, available online for free, seriously cutting down on CD production and thus not leaving their fans, well...high and dry.

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2-24-2008 @ 1:14AM

John said...

Our band has just finished its latest CD and instead of pressing it on a CD we released it on a flash drive direct

We were really stoked with the results and wondered if anyone else had anything to say about this. It seems we cannot find enough fans at the gigs to buy a CD but were willing to shell out $15 bucks for a 1 GB...has anyone else found this to work for them?

Also, they seem to be a great eco idea....nobody throws away a flash drive while tons of CD's get in the trash......just a thought

I read this Billboard.com release http://billboardpublicitywire.com/releases/flash/drive/prweb530039.htm
and it convinced me if the labels are dropping the CD perhaps this was the next thing...?

anyways........drop me a line....
JT

1-14-2008 @ 1:54PM

Kevin S said...

Great article! I had no idea about any of these musicians environmental concerns. That's pretty cool.

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