Thom Yorke sends his followers to Geoff Barrow's Spotify replies

Thom Yorke has pointed his followers to the replies under a tweet from Geoff Barrow of Portishead asking musicians what Spotify pays them. Barrow asked on 27 December, Ok quick question for musicians How many of you have personally made more than £500 from @Spotify², and on 28 December Yorke quoted it with a line of his own. i refer you, ladies and gentlemen, to the comments below …. without further comment²

The singer LoneLady replied that streaming had made not paying for music normal and would leave a music career to the well-off. Daniel Broadley said playlist placements had got his band a second record deal. Barrow's own answer was that working the system can make a living, but bands who don't fit the playlists find it almost impossible, since most deals now include Spotify.

It comes three weeks after Yorke's solo records and Atoms for Peace's Amok went back on Spotify, four years after he and Nigel Godrich pulled them over what the service paid. In 2013, talking to the Mexican site Sopitas.com, he called Spotify the last desperate fart of a dying corpse³.