“We got hacked last week – someone stole Thom’s minidisk archive from around the time of OK Computer, and reportedly demanded $150,000 on threat of releasing it,” said the guitarist. Instead of paying up, he and his fellow band mates – brother Colin, Thom Yorke, Ed O’Brien, and Philip Selway – have decided to release the music for £18 to raise money for the climate change protest group. Greenwood said an unknown party wanted $150,000 for the “tangentially interesting” reel.

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood announced on Twitter that the music had been stolen from the group’s archive collection, recorded around the time Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer hit the shelves in 1997. It’s not very interesting, there’s a lot of it’ This should be very helpful! Please share around to prevent the spread of degraded audio files.Radiohead has promised to release 18 hours of unheard music in aid of environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion after hackers gained access to the band’s archive and demanded a $150,000 (£118,000) ransom. These files have searchable, uniform name conventions so all Unreleased Thom solo songs and all Unreleased full band jams or all versions of Airbag can be found. Using CUE sheets is the only way to prevent loss of audio quality. Thank you for your cooperation and again, please do not spread already split files, we do not want to have degraded audio files out there. We will update the ZIP link with the last few tapes when we are finished correcting the original time stamps. This zip does not contain any pirated files, just the CUE sheets. Thanks for everyone's input sorry there were issues that we couldn't figure out. UPDATE: We have finished all the CUE files, and also changed the format to the 14-18 sheets to UTF8 since that was causing some issues with some software.

Please do not download or spread already split files - a very popular post on here has re encoded files that have further degraded the lossy audo quality. Hi - the authors of the original Google document with timestamps have released CUE files for all 18 files so fans can properly split their files using something like Medieval CUE Splitter, Foobar or possibly FFmpeg.

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