Mathew Ingram quotes Radiohead's frontman on digital music:

“We didn’t want it to be a big announcement about ‘everything’s over except the internet, the internet’s the future’, ’cause that’s utter rubbish. And it’s really important to have an artefact as well, as they call it, an object.”

I think I agree with Mathew:

Is that true? I’m not so sure. I certainly don’t feel any compulsion to have a physical object when I buy music -- if anything, I find it cumbersome and kind of a pain — and I bet there are lots of people like me. I think Thom might want to revisit his views on digital-only releases. As it stands, the In Rainbows move seems to have been primarily designed to shaft the traditional record labels, which Yorke has nothing but scorn for.

I'm perfectly happy getting just the bits, and - looking at the behavior of my daughter's cohort, it looks like there's next to no one in the teenage set who is stuck on physical media. So is Yorke stuck in the past in that respect? I'm sure there are people who really want the "object", as he puts it - but it's a dwindling number.