Yorke: 'I'm releasing CD for my mum'

Thom Yorke has said that he is releasing Radiohead's In Rainbows album on CD format for people like his mum.

The singer claimed that the band are not cashing in by physically releasing the previously download-only album, insisting that he just wants more people to hear it.

He is quoted as saying: "If we had left it at that, there would have been loads of people who would never have heard the record.

"People like my mum - she's still asking me to make a copy for her.

"Also people in Brazil, in Argentina, in Japan...they haven't downloaded it because we couldn't get it together to do a multi-lingual website.

"It's utterly ridiculous for people to assume there will only be the download. It wasn't this purist thing.

"The record is the thing that comes first, not the means of distribution. Everyone jumped on the download thing as this sort of anti-music business gesture.

"Actually it was just a means to an end for us. Taking on the music business was not the point."

In Rainbows is released on December 31.