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Thom Yorke to distribute new solo album through BitTorrent

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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2013 file photo, Thom Yorke performs at the 2013 Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin Texas. Yorke is making an end run around “the self elected gate-keepers” and putting out a new solo album using BitTorrent instead of traditional distribution methods. Yorke and his producer Nigel Godrich issued a letter through their publicist Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, announcing the album, called “Tomorrow\'s Modern Boxes.” The download includes eight songs and a video. (Photo by John Davisson/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Thom Yorke is making an end run around “the self elected gate-keepers” and putting out a new solo album using BitTorrent instead of traditional distribution methods.

The Radiohead singer and his producer Nigel Godrich issued a letter through their publicist Friday announcing “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.” The $6 download includes eight songs and a video.

Yorke and Godrich hope to create a new model for artists to control their own music or other digital content: “If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.”

Unusual distribution methods are nothing new for Yorke. Radiohead released 2007’s “In Rainbows” as a pay-what-you-want download in 2007 and also distributed their 2010 album “The King of Limbs” as a direct download to fans before selling a physical edition.

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