Trent Reznor Disses Radiohead For Being Insincere

03/14/08 3:30pm

by Jen White (CHARTattack)

Trent Reznor might've followed in Radiohead's footsteps by releasing Nine Inch Nails' instrumental album Ghosts I-IV on the band's website, but he slammed the British rock heavyweights for their online release of In Rainbows.

"What [Radiohead] did was a cool thing. But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream," he says. "There's nothing wrong with that — but I don't see that as a big revolution [that] they're kinda getting credit for.

"What they did right: they surprised the world with a new record, and it was available digitally first," Reznor continues. "What they did wrong: by making it such a low quality thing, not even including artwork… To me, that feels insincere."

These comments come just a day after Reznor — unlike Radiohead — decided to publicly release Ghosts I-IV's album sales &#8212 a whopping $1.6 million US in its first week.

Reznor packed a one-two punch with this news. On his perpetual journey to seemingly upstage Radiohead on the virtual front, he launched a YouTube channel to host fan videos as part of a virtual film festival. (Take that, Thom Yorke.)