When you can't compete with it, befriend it. That's exactly what Thom Yorke, member from the English rock band Radiohead has done. Yorke has dropped his album "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" via file sharing website BitTorrent. The album features 8 tracks and a music video and can be downloaded as a BitTorrent bundle from here.

"Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" can also be purchased on 180 gram white vinyl, which explains Yorke's Tumble page picture that can be seen here. The cost to buy "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" has been kept at a mere $6 but fans were more surprised by the unconventional platform [BitTorrent] where the album has been launched.

Nigel Godrich, long-time Radiohead collaborator and also the producer of the album revealed that the launch of album on BitTorrent is a kind of "experiment" he and Yorke decided to do so that the money from the album sales is directed back to the musicians who created it.

"It's an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around. If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work," revealed Yorke and Godrich, according to Music Feeds.

They believe that selling their album on this platform could help enable musicians who make their own music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves without anyone's help. The duo believes that if it works for them as artists, anyone can follow their move.

In the past, many musicians including DJ Shadow, Moby, Pixies, De La Soul, Kaskade and Public Enemy have all tried to sell their albums through BitTorrent's "Bundles" but Yorke is the first musician to to "pay-gate" feature of the website, reveals The Guardian.

"Tomorrow's Modern Boxes" is a follow-up of Yorke's debut solo LP "The Eraser" from 2006. The artist has also released the music video of album's lead track called "A Brain In A Bottle," which is available for free on BitTorrent. Check out the video below. BitTorrent is notoriously famous for spreading online music piracy by its numerous illegal downloads but the website is now aiming to change its ideology by introducing platforms to sell their albums directly.

Source: Youtube.com/saif med