Oasis Won't Give Fans Option Of Paying What They Want For Next Album

While Oasis have no record company commitments as they record their seventh album, don't expect the British rockers to follow Radiohead's example in releasing it.

Singer Liam Gallagher told Reuters that if the band are going to work hard in the studio to create a new record, it would have to be over his "dead body" that people would be permitted to download it and pay whatever they felt like for it.

Oasis have been working on the album with producer Dave Sardy, who also helmed 2005's Don't Believe The Truth. Gallagher said that everyone in the group have contributed material, and not just his older brother, guitarist and primary songwriter Noel Gallagher. The album is expected to be finished by mid-December and the band will fly to Los Angeles to mix it after Christmas in anticipation of a release next August.

The Gallagher brothers are known for their bickering, and Liam said that Noel tinkered in the studio with the last album to its detriment and that he hopes that he's learned a lesson to not do that again.

Oasis haven't been shy about their Beatles and Rolling Stones influences, and Liam said that their new studio effort will compare to the respective seventh albums from those bands, Revolver and Beggars Banquet.

Liam was also the first guest on a new British made-for-mobile talk show co-hosted by his longtime girlfriend, Canadian All Saints member Nicole Appleton, that launched on the ITV mobile website on Thursday. Oasis released their first digital-only single, "Lord Don't Slow Me Down," on their website last month. The song is the title track of the DVD that followed the group on their 2005-06 world tour and hit stores on Nov. 6.