In an
interview in The Times, Robert Smith of
The Cure expresses his disagreement with
Radiohead's strategy of allowing fans to decide how much to pay for their album In Rainbows. "The
Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed violently with that," he says. "You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. If I put a value on my music and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan. It can't work."