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Two days after In Rainbows reached British shops on CD, Yorke also says the pay-what-you-like download has been a nice surprise for the band, though he won't say how many people downloaded it.
After keeping their albums off Apple's store, Radiohead have let the new one in, though the records EMI owns are still missing.
For the first time the copyright in a Radiohead record belongs to the band, and Yorke says they are not complaining about what the download has brought in.
Letting people pay what they liked for the download in October has not stopped the CD selling well enough to top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
For the first time in almost a year and a half, Radiohead played to people in a room, and anyone with a computer could watch.
Two of the band spent the evening picking records for Radio 1, and two more phoned in.
Only discbox buyers own these eight tracks, and the critics cannot agree whether they are leftovers or the album carrying on.
The first Radiohead single in more than four years comes backed with Thom Yorke playing alone, recorded two years before In Rainbows came out.
The programme's double anniversary, its 200th edition and its host's 50th birthday, brings the band back to the studio with nothing but songs from In Rainbows.
With downloads, Thom Yorke would love the next new Radiohead songs to come as a single before a tour or a few at a time.
The hip-hop In Rainbows that was meant for fans who had bought the album from the band's shop can now be heard by anyone.
The film closed one of the band's webcasts, but Yorke suspects hardly anyone saw it, so it is up again on the band's site.
Between the records Yorke talks about where his lyrics come from, and why the In Rainbows downloads were squeezed to spare the band's server.
Jonny Greenwood's music for There Will Be Blood now has two prizes and a BAFTA nomination to its name, and still no place in the Oscar race.
The Bad Seeds' singer sets his own bleak outlook beside Thom Yorke's and decides only one of them was made to speak for other people.
Friends of the Earth want 17 European governments to bind themselves in law to yearly emissions cuts, and Yorke says only national governments and the EU can make it happen.
After a month of hints, a tabloid headline and a rebuttal from the festival, Yorke's own account is that the band have simply not been away long enough.
Yorke says he does not think the world is doomed, and says the government's climate bill does not go far enough.
The first North American tour in two years starts in Florida in May, and the big coastal cities wait for the second half in August.
Natasha Khan has 14 nights in front of Radiohead's crowds this summer, nearly all of them the band's headline shows.
A week into rehearsals for the In Rainbows tour, the band are already looking past it, with a couple of new songs in hand and sessions reserved.
With tour rehearsals under way, Selway promises sets that shift from one night to the next, and no parade of the old hits.
A few hundred listeners who had won their seats heard two mostly different sets, made for three BBC networks in one day.
The week the new single came out ends on BBC One's Friday-night chat show, after two days at the BBC's radio studios.
Fans now have somewhere of the band's own to keep a blog, trade clips and meet up before shows.
Los Angeles, New York and the rest of the cities the spring run skipped get their Radiohead nights in August, with three festivals among them.
Ten years after Thom Yorke first sang it alone on a stage in Tokyo, one of the band's best-known unreleased songs has become a hit in America.
Rather than fly to New York for one song on American network television, the band filmed their spot at home and sent it over.
The jazzman and broadcaster, who has died at 86, is the reason one of the songs on Amnesiac was recorded and released, in the band's words.
Buyers will not be setting the price of a Radiohead record again, though Yorke says a band their size can keep dealing with its audience directly.
The film asks MTV's viewers an awkward question about where the shoes on their feet come from.
The band's first proper tour night since the summer of 2006 comes with a new stage rig and a song nobody had heard live in four years.
Only two nights into the world tour, Radiohead are already reshaping the set, with songs from OK Computer, Amnesiac and The Bends coming in beside the new album.
For under five dollars in iTunes files, any fan could take a Radiohead single apart this spring and put it back together their own way.
Four nights into the North American leg, the set is still changing from one amphitheatre to the next.
Many ticketholders never made it to Sunday's concert in Virginia, and the band's office is sending them to the venue to sort it out.
Six nights into the North American amphitheatre run, the band played two songs the tour had not yet heard, in a two-hour set that ended on “Paranoid Android”.
Thom Yorke let 11 songs go by before he introduced one, and then used the moment to remember how England had taken Kid A.
Prince's label had every fan clip of his Coachella cover pulled from YouTube, and Yorke, laughing, points out whose song it is.
The band held out for their records to be bought whole, and Apple would not sell them that way; now any song from Pablo Honey on can be had by itself.
A song the band had kept to their soundchecks has now been heard by two crowds in Dublin, and fan footage of it is already online.
Barcelona's first Radiohead show in eight years came at a one-day festival shaped by the band, from the acts on the bill down to the cutlery.
Radiohead had no say in the tracklist and said they would do nothing to sell it, but their old label's compilation has gone top five in Britain and to the top in Ireland.
The In Rainbows song that beat Radiohead for the better part of a decade came right because of a new bassline, its producer says.
In Paris the tour's push for greener travel came down to a free ticket for anyone who arrived by bicycle, and hardly anyone did.
Q's four-star review found a looser, gentler band on the first of two Milan nights, with fewer big guitars and fewer anthems.
The comedian who helped Radiohead with their webcasts has a BBC Three series of his own, and Colin Greenwood says the band will be dialling in.
U2's singer has put his praise for the pay-what-you-want In Rainbows in writing, though his own band are not about to try it.
The In Rainbows tour has reached Britain, and Thom Yorke told the crowd in Hackney that he had spent the day terrified.
Friends of the Earth are working the crowds all through the European tour, at the band's invitation.
The session the band filmed for Nigel Godrich's series, seen on American television in May, can now be bought and kept.
A night after a set criticised for leaving out the best-known songs, the second London crowd got “Lucky”, “No Surprises”, “Karma Police” and “Paranoid Android”.
The older songs are back in the set, and Manchester heard a show that ran from The Bends to In Rainbows.
The Danish critics were close to unanimous about the night, and most of them gave it five stars out of six.
Yorke's mix comes first of 11 remixes of a string piece that is partly steered by software modelled on the brain.
At their first Rock Werchter since 2003, the band brought every album but Pablo Honey to the Belgian festival's main stage.
The last French date of the tour brought back two songs left out of all four June nights at Bercy and Nîmes.
A Glasgow art student's answer to the band's remix invitation, made on an old home computer and office machines, gave Colin and Jonny Greenwood a flashback.
Two Berlin papers, the taz and the Berliner Zeitung, came away impressed by the band on a rainy night.
Every Radiohead record from OK Computer to Hail to the Thief is due back in the shops at the end of the summer, cut from new masters.
Thom Yorke wanted a film of people made only from mathematical points, and says the result turned out to be oddly moving.
Five years late, a day from the Hail to the Thief summer surfaces, with Thom Yorke talking freely about the war, the title and why he keeps sounding the alarm.
Chicago loses a Radiohead theatre show it never knew it was getting, though Friday's headline set in Grant Park still stands.
The band's study found that most of a tour's footprint belongs to the people coming to see it, so the audience is now part of the plan.
Even at a price of nothing, the band's site lost millions of the album's listeners to the file-sharing networks.
The band's August run through North America starts in front of 75,000 in Chicago, with every song from In Rainbows in a 24-song set.
About 35,000 people watched a set that took in every song on In Rainbows.
Seven years after two nights of their own at Liberty State Park, Radiohead have been back on the same ground, this time at the top of a festival bill.
Radiohead's In Rainbows session in Nigel Godrich's basement and Thom Yorke's on his own are coming out on one disc.
Radiohead's bassist has a record out away from the band, a film score pieced together between Oxfordshire, Brooklyn and a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah tour.
The Boston Phoenix admired the show but not the drive home, from a band that has asked its fans to leave the car behind.
Chuck Palahniuk's word that the band had scored the film of his novel lasted two days, until their office and then the tracklist answered it.
The Georgia Straight found a band, and a singer, far easier with Vancouver than on the night in 1995 that the Straight recalled.
Jonny Greenwood says little on stage, so a word from him for the support band drew a line from Thom Yorke and disbelief in the crowd.
Jonny Greenwood's 2005 piece for orchestra reaches America's West Coast tonight, after New York and Alabama, all within eight months.
Radiohead become the first band ever to play Golden Gate Park after dark, on the opening night of San Francisco's new festival.
The first of the band's two Los Angeles nights was played inside the tour's rectangle of LED light, with a nod to R.E.M. near the end.
Video and audio of the unplanned Neil Young cover from Radiohead's second Hollywood Bowl night, on 25 August, have been going round online since Tuesday.
The last American night of Radiohead's year went out live online, on the evening Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination.
The last American night of the tour is now a two-hour recording anyone can keep, put out only once the band decided they had played well enough.
Radiohead are still waiting for a Mercury, 11 years after OK Computer first put them on the shortlist.
Six nights in Japan are all that is left of the band's year on the road, and the songs for the next record are already being written.
Ten years after it ran in print, a long interview from the months after OK Computer is online, with the band telling where some of its sounds came from.
After “Nude” in the spring, fans get a second Radiohead song to take apart, and this time every part comes in the one download.
The pay-what-you-like download of In Rainbows has now won an award, almost a year after it went out.
A film made for an open contest on the animation site Aniboom is now the band's video for the In Rainbows song.
A 25-song set reached back to The Bends, and a Japanese critic heard the In Rainbows songs come fully alive in the room.
A year after putting out In Rainbows on their own terms, the band are backing a campaign for musicians to own the records they make.
Both of Diplo's mixes of the In Rainbows song are free to download, and he has explained at some length why there are two.
Eight years after Dancer in the Dark, Yorke and Björk share a record again, this time to raise money for Iceland's wilderness.
A year after the pay-what-you-want download, the band's publisher puts numbers on it for the first time, all except the average price people paid.
A mix of the song from The Eraser, finished during the band's webcasts, is now a free download on the band's blog.
Seven years after they played Neil Finn's Auckland shows, two of Radiohead are going back, this time to make a record, with gigs in the new year as well.
By the end of November every film Radiohead picked from their fans' animation contest will be out, a week after the first of the three.
Every one of the five comes from In Rainbows: the album twice, “House of Cards” twice, and the discbox for its packaging.
The score the Oscars ruled out is in the running at the Grammys, on the same list that gives Radiohead five nominations.
Whoever wins will own the only copy of a remix all five have put their names to, and every penny of the price goes to Missing People.
The dates came out one country at a time over the autumn, starting with Santiago in November, until the run stood at seven nights in five cities.
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