Some fans called the previews into question, it is likely to claim so much material on the back of actually only a couple tracks, scamming with real material is devious but definitely happens. About midnight GMT a seris of previews appeared on reddit. The leaker then tried to say, they aren’t really interested in the money, someone had said how much, so they offered a random figure, yadda yadda, it snowballs from there. However some started looking together to see if they could raise the $150k that was being asked. Some fans rightfully pointed out the nonsense of asking for money for something that isn’t there’s to begin with lets face facts, it is theft. In an unsurprising moment it began to look like a ransom demand for material, as often is the case with bootlegs and unreleased material.

Previews were uploaded onto reddit, and a discord server for the band also realised that days prior the same leaker had mentioned it. Over a couple of days this ‘leak’ murmured under the waters, until the early hours on the 5th June when it suddenly became a real possibility. A fellow user suggested going to appropriate subreddit for the band to see if anyone there would be interested. On the 25th May, a user on a discord server for trading ‘unreleased’ material casually mentioned they had Radiohead Kid A/OK Computer session files, instrumentals, and a multitrack of the band’s 2011 song Bloom. What fans were not expecting on a random midweek day in June 2 years later was to find almost 18 hours of session work and mix downs to be thrust upon the internet. The tape offered fans some rare unreleased and early material as well as bits of sound collages that would end up hidden in the finished album. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark album OK Computer, the group released a thorough box set of material from their sessions, onto a cassette tape (that featured a ZX Spectrum program hidden in it as an easter egg). In 2017, Radiohead fans got a very exciting release from the band. THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED AT THE BOTTOM – THE FIRST HALF IS THE ORIGINAL POST – PLEASE CONSIDER PURCHASING THE SESSIONS BY CLICKING HERE.

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