Nine Inch Nails main-man Trent Reznor has attacked Radiohead for releasing their latest album online for free.
The rocker has himself released the latest Nine Inch Nails album in a similar fashion, with a selection of tracks available to download free from last month, but says the Oxford band's decision to lower the quality of tracks to encourage fans to pay for the higher quality version was a mistake.
"What they (Radiohead) did was a cool thing. But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream," he told ABC in a new interview. "There's nothing wrong with that - I but don't see that as a big revolution [that] they're kinda getting credit for."
"What they did right: they surprised the world with a new record, and it was available digitally first. What they did wrong: by making it such a low quality thing, not even including artwork ... to me that feels insincere."
Reznor also revealed his new release 'Ghosts I-IV' had been snapped up by almost 800,000 fans, with 2,500 boxsets sold at $300 also flying off the shelves.
