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Fri, Jul 4

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. We weren’t asking for money…The thing we wanted from EMI was to retain some kind of control over our copyright and back catalogue, but…Guy Hands wasn’t interested.” Radiohead left EMI after completing its contract with the release of 2003’s Hail to the Thief. Unless you live under a rock, you know the British group issued its latest album, In Rainbows, as a digital download last October and then as a standard CD in January through an indie label. Following its current European festival run, Radiohead will begin a new batch of North American shows at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 1st.