The direct action group brought London to a standstill in April as it spent weeks peacefully protesting the climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion 🐾⌛️🌱 June 11, 2019Īll profits raised from the sale will go to British environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, which thanked the band for their “unprecedented support.” A thank you from us is here - #ExtinctionRebellion #Radiohead Sending a massive thank you to and To get involved in the rebellion, check out. OK Computer was voted Radiohead’s greatest album in a Guardian poll in 2011.Īmong the newly released material includes a 12-minute version of “Paranoid Android” and a demo recording of “Karma Police.” Fans have accumulated all known details about the music in an extensive colour coded 57-page Google Document. “There’s a lot of it… As it’s out there it may as well be out there until we all get bored and move on.” “It’s not v interesting,” Thom Yorke noted online. “Never intended for public consumption (though some clips did reach the cassette in the OK Computer reissue),” he added. So for £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom.” “Instead of complaining – much – or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion,” Greenwood wrote in the email. He titled the email “Walter Sobchak vs Bunny's toe” - a reference to John Goodman’s character in 1998 cult movie The Big Lebowski and the severed body part used as blackmail to get ransom money.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood wrote an email outlining the story, and shared a screengrab of it on social media. Fans have the next 18 days to access the music, which they can download in full for £18.Īnd - no surprises - all money raised will go straight to fighting climate change. In response, they just released the whole thing, meaning lucky fans can listen to all 1.8 GB of it on Bandcamp.

The band claim that they were held ransom for $150,000 (£118,000). Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke reportedly just got hacked - with thieves making off with hours upon hours of unreleased music taken from sessions for the band’s 1997 album OK Computer. Join our movement by taking environmental action here.

Experts say there’s just over 11 years left to limit the damage caused by the increase in global temperatures - and with protests sweeping the world in 2019, many British people have turned to a direct action group called Extinction Rebellion to force the UK government to do more. The UN’s Global Goals include Goal 13 for climate action.

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