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Tom York

I feel like, as musicians, we...

I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

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Tom York

I grew up under Thatcher. I g...

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

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Tom York

Generally speaking, if people...

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

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Tom York

I've never believed that pop ...

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

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Tom York

One of the interesting things...

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

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Tom York

Coming from Britain, I was te...

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

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Tom York

I think a lot of tunes can su...

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

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Tom York

I think maybe since there isn...

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

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Tom York

This was something that was o...

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

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Tom York

We toyed with the idea of mak...

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

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Tom York

Sometimes the nicest thing to...

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

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Tom York

I think sometimes all the cha...

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

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Tom York

So ultimately, it's idealisti...

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

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Tom York

I don't see it in terms of ch...

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

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Tom York

Sometimes I stand in store wi...

Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.

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Tom York

I often fake my death and the...

I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

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Tom York

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so de...

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

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Tom York

If I were to be any celebrity...

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

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Tom York

There was a clown that tried ...

There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

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Tom York

I see fat kids on the street ...

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over

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