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Bono – exercising some damage control – has written to the NME to say he thinks ‘Radiohead were courageous for ‘In Rainbows’ release’ in response to Paul McGuinness’ earlier comments regarding Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ pay-what-you-like release.
McGuinness, who controversially believes ISP’s facilitate music pirating and are thus robbing artists (“…entrepreneurial, hippy values seems to be a disregard for the true value of music.”), had claimed the experiment was a failure and U2 wouldn’t be following their example. Bono disagrees with his manager. According to him Radiohead are ‘courageous and imaginative in trying to figure out some new relationship with their audience.’ Now that’s an example U2 might want to try and follow. Perhaps they could pick Trent Reznor’s brain.
The full letter will appear in today’s edition of the printed version of the NME.
