Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them

The English rock band Radiohead has decided to sell some of its unreleased recording materials after a hacker stole them and threatened to leak them in an extortion scheme. In a tweet today, Radiohead guitarist and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood said a hacker last week stole lead vocalist Thom Yorke’s minidisk archive, which contained recordings from around the time of the band’s 1997 studio album, OK Computer. A brief product listing on the Bandcamp website, apparently written by Yorke, describes the materials as “my archived mini discs from 1995-1998(?)

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