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Robert Smith Says Radiohead Model Is "An Idiot Plan"

Sorry guys, the price of a Cure album will never be Up To You. Robert skewered the In Rainbows strategy in an interview with Music Radar thusly: "You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all and that's nonsense. If I put a value on my music and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan, it can't work." We'll help Robert out by completing...

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17:45 on February 24 2009

Robert Smith Says Mean Things About Radiohead

Pitchfork — Photo by Kyle GustafsonWhen we last left Cure frontman Robert Smith he was bitching about iTunes UK overcharging for his band's 2008 EP, Hypnagogic States. And now he's ... more info

16:00 on February 24 2009

The Chum Bucket: Robert Smith Blasts Radiohead + More

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketThe Cure's Robert Smith disagrees "violently" with Radiohead's pay-what-you-want model for their release, 'In Rainbows.' Guess we know how muc... more info

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21:16 on February 24 2009

Robert Smith Says Radiohead Model Is "An Idiot Plan"

Stereogum — Sorry guys, the price of a Cure album will never be Up To You. Robert skewered the In Rainbows strategy in an interview with Music Radar thusly: "You can't allow other pe... more info

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