Robert Smith Blasts Radiohead

22 February 2009

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Robert Smith "violently disagrees" with Radiohead.

The Cure singer was astonished when the group allowed their fans to choose what they paid for their last album, 'In Rainbows', before downloading it.

Smith - who, along with his bandmates, is set to receive the God like Genius prize at next week's NME Awards - insists the scheme devalues music.

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 workRobert Smith

He said: "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed violently with that.

"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."

Smith believes if you offer people the opportunity to pay nothing or very little for your music then that's what will happen.

He added: "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."

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