Radiohead

July 1, 2008 Radiohead continues to express its unhappiness with former label EMI Music over the latter’s recent release of both a Radiohead greatest hits package and a video collection. Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien told the Glasgow Metro, “The packaging is awful. There are three really bad photos. They’re not going to make any money from it because they’ll spend so much on TV advertising. Another thing is that greatest hits don’t sell in America. I don’t understand why they’re doing it. And you know what it’s done? It’s ensured that we never, ever, ever re-sign to EMI while there’s a (EMI chairman) Guy Hands involvement.” O’Brien added that EMI has made $80 million from sales of Radiohead records, but that “we still don’t own that material. W...   [read the full post]