Music
Oasis: 'Radiohead free album was marketing'
Published Monday, Jul 7 2008, 15:55 BST | By Alex Fletcher
Rex Features
Radiohead released their In Rainbows LP last October for fans to download at whatever price they liked between 1p and £100.
However, Gallagher argued that the main result of the unusual release method was cheap publicity.
"To be honest, to me it looked like marketing," he told the BBC. "Y'know? A great way of getting a load of marketing for free really, but good for them.
"That's what they do, they're rebels and outsiders."
When asked whether Oasis would ever let fans buy their music for free, Gallagher replied: "I wouldn’t have thought so. That's not our bag.
"I didn't spend a year in the most expensive studio in England, with the most expensive producer in America and the most expensive graphic designer in London to then give it away. F**k that."
Oasis release their seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul on October 6.
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