ToD Crestfallen by Media Claims of Radiohead Innovation
11/07/2007 -- by merlin
  LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Rightful digital rock vanguards ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have expressed their disappointment at the media's coverage of Radiohead's recent pioneering digital album release, insisting they broke the proverbial cyber mold with last year's internet-only pre-release "So Divided".
Radiohead sent allegorical shockwaves through already waning major label coffers last month when they announced their newest album "In Rainbows" would be released exclusively as a digital download, allowing fans worldwide to set their own price for the highly-anticipated album. The move by Radiohead came eleven months after Trail of Dead, to much less fanfare and acclaim, prematurely leaked their own album directly to their fans, several months before its scheduled release date. Trail of Dead frontman and file sharing proponent Conrad Keely lamented the obvious flaws involved with the media's overzealous reporting last month. "I really don't get it," Keely said. "We did almost exactly the same thing, except we didn't make a penny. Had [the media] done any research whatsoever, they would have found we put our last album out there to our fans while we were still under contract. I love Radiohead, but they really have the media by the balls. Everything they do is apple-polished over and over again."
"I'm not bitter or angry," Keely continued. "A little disappointed, maybe. The whole purpose of signing [with Interscope] was to gain more exposure and visibility. Apparently sticking it to the major labels first by leaking something we didn't fully own wasn't enough to warrant any response from the media. I mean, I would have liked to receive some of the credit since it's blatantly obvious Radiohead got the idea from us. The whole situation is getting worse now that they've started asking me in interviews what I think about this 'bold statement to the music industry'. Of course I think it's a great idea. I thought it was way back when we did it first last year."
"Now, since we have no label, if we release our next album the same way we did last time, everyone will think we copied Radiohead."
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