Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 4

Colin Greenwood talks to BBC Radio 4's The World at One in the week vinyl sales in Britain overtook digital downloads for the first time since iTunes arrived. A record lets a band dress the music up, he says, the way clothing does. The limited edition of A Moon Shaped Pool is a book with jackets, and the discs themselves can play with colour and carry cut-out messages. While the band recorded in France, Stanley Donwood painted the artwork in the studio next door, with massive speakers rigged up so he could hear the music as it was made.

Does vinyl sound better? “It just sounds nice and warm and friendly,” Colin says, before passing on his brother Jonny's theory that middle-aged men grow obsessive about sound to make up for the high frequencies they can no longer hear, and suggesting the subject is best dropped. His children are thrilled to find OK Computer and Kid A in the supermarket, though the display has been moved back beside the markdown shelf and the slimline lasagnes. The night before, he was trying to get Spotify to play through his Sonos and the link-up kept crashing. As his friend Kieran Hebden, who records as Four Tet, used to tease him: “Why don't you just put a record on, Colin?” He has kept all his vinyl, and on tour he and Jonny trawl the record shops of America and Europe; his favourite find is probably a Peter Green Fleetwood Mac record.