MusicTank

Wise-cracking, jape-pulling, humour-czars Radiohead, have released their new album (In Rainbows) but aren't doing it the traditional way.  Oh no.  They're selling it as a special box set (that'll be 40 quid, guv – got a load more in my lock up in Ealing) but also as a download bundle where you – yes, you – get to decide how much you should pay for it.  They don't need the money and it's a brave move, so good luck to them.  At least they're not sitting on their middle-aged backsides and yawningly jumping through the hoops that it's been presumed all bands simply MUST jump through.

I think this should now be the norm as it would drive thousands of dead-faced 'pop stars' out of business overnight.  Just think about it – Lisa Scott-Lee puts out her new album that she's spent all of a hour recording and hopes for that crucial number 37 chart position; and she gets back from her 'fans' 25p in small change, a rubber spider, an old bus ticket, half a baked potato and a map of Swindon town centre with the words "buy milk and leave shoes in to be repaired" written on it.

Maybe we could extend this model to become like the stocks in medieval times where our most pointless of pop stars are shackled up in the town square and we all vote with the contents of our bins.  I'm saving up all my vegetable scraps for when Dannii Minogue puts out her inevitable piggybacking 'comeback' single when the X Factor ends.