MTV just posted a retarded news article about the supposed low quality of Radiohead’s new release that is only available as a download from their website.

People, whiners mostly, are complaining about the low bit rate, 160 kpbs, of the .mp3 downloads, saying that Radiohead “duped” them into buying an album with poor sound quality.

They have one commenter saying the dumbest thing in the whole article:

“Radiohead has such delicate music that requires detail and depth of sound. …I for one CAN tell the difference between 160 and 192. [With] 160 you can’t hear the finer details that make Radiohead so great. I have lost a bit of respect for Radiohead for this. I would never make people pay for 160. They may as well just stream stuff off MySpace.” (Empasis mine)

GET BEHIND ME SATAN!

“I would never make people pay for 160.”

How can you have such vehemence against a band that is not forcing you to pay a single red cent (or pence) to download their hard work?!

Ridiculous.

I don’t hear anyone whining like this about the entire iTunes library, which as Jonny Greenwood noted in the Rolling Stone article, is lower than what Radiohead subsequently released.

If you don’t like 160 kbps, then DON’T BUY IT.

Or download it for free, for that matter, you ungrateful whiners.