Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has released his latest solo album via BitTorrent in an attempt to bypass “the self-elected gatekeepers” of the music industry.
The singer said he turned to the file-sharing system as “an experiment”.
Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, which includes eight tracks and a video, is available for $6 (£3.68).
It comes seven years after Radiohead famously shook up the music business by giving their album In Rainbows a “pay what you want” online release.
In a statement, Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich said: “It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around…
“If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.
“Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves. Bypassing the self-elected gatekeepers.
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