By the time of the album’s release in 2000, it had been illegally downloaded over a million times. “We had to move on.” Thom Yorke believed rock had “run its course.” Then came the devastating dual attack of Napster and Kid A, The sharing service sent labels into a panic. “There were other guitar bands out there trying to do similar things,” said bassist Colin Greenwood. The industry held on to the old ways for a few more years, but Radiohead needed to change as well. Other bands were forced to reevaluate their whole approach. Go back to 1997, after Windows 95 had put millions more people behind a PC, and hear Radiohead deconstruct the sound of massive guitar rock and reassemble it into a Futurist machine called OK Computer.
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