However, The Guardian felt MiniDiscs had merit 'even for less nerdish fans', and wrote that was 'an endlessly interesting chronicle of a band reinventing the mainstream by rejecting it. They observed a 'few moments of brilliance (and strangeness)', including Yorke's acoustic songs, the extended 'Paranoid Android', and an alternative version of 'Lift' that 'could have topped the charts'. Pitchfork wrote that MiniDiscs did not 'make for an ideal listening experience' and would be of interest 'only to the most diehard Radiohead fans'. The guitarist Jonny Greenwood wrote on Twitter that the collection was 'only tangentially interesting', while Yorke wrote on the Bandcamp page: 'As it's out there it may as well be out there until we all get bored and move on.' Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores The official release removed a 12-minute field recording and non-Radiohead material, such as several minutes of a James Bond score. All proceeds went to the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion, raising approximately £500,000. On 11 June, Radiohead made the recordings available to stream or purchase from the music distribution site Bandcamp for 18 days. A fan who negotiated with Zimbra said he did not believe extortion was his intent: 'He never told us anything to suggest he was trying to get money from the band, only from fans.' Zimbra released the recordings free after news broke on the discussion site Reddit. Zimbra told Pitchfork that 'the whole $150k thing and 'ransom' was taken way out of context'.

However, according to an investigation by Pitchfork, Zimbra had instead hoped to sell them to fans. Īccording to conflicting reports, Zimbra initially demanded a $150,000 ransom from Radiohead not to release the recordings. The guitarist Ed O'Brien said they had been hacked from Radiohead's cloud archive. They may have been stolen while archived material was being prepared for the OK Computer reissue. On 5 June 2019, the recordings were leaked online by a collector using the name Zimbra, who claimed to have traded them for unreleased Beatles recordings. The recordings were taken from MiniDiscs (example pictured with battery for scale).

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