Robert Smith 'disagrees with Radiohead'

Robert Smith has said that he "violently disagrees" with the way in which Radiohead released their 2007 album In Rainbows.

The lead singer of The Cure argued that Radiohead's pay-what-you-like model devalues their music, The Times reports.

Smith said: "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed violently with that.

"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."

He added that the percentage of illegal downloads from major acts is "staggering" and that the relationship between bigger labels and internet service providers is "murky".

Last year, U2's Bono praised Radiohead's "imaginative" approach with In Rainbows, despite criticism from his manager Paul McGuinness.