Thom Yorke, Radiohead Frontman, warns young musicians should avoid getting tied with record labels, as they remind him of sinking ships, and says the world won�t notice their loss. Thom Yorke is long known for criticizing the entertainment industry excesses, and now he comes with addressing to emerging musicians in his new textbook for GCSE Citizenship Studies students, where he shares advice not to get too entangled with collapsing music industry.

In fact, record studios have been sinking since music became digital and this form of it undermined the stranglehold on methods of distribution. So music labels turned out to be bad marketing companies that found themselves not corresponding to a modern digital world where the artists are allowed to both market and distribute themselves without record labels� participation and almost for free.

Radiohead has always been the pioneer among the new music industry trends, starting with shocking the public 3 years ago when the band released its new album �In Rainbows� in the Internet directly to their fans, allowing people to choose the price they are ready to pay for the CD. This of course made music labels nervous, alongside with some industry members holding the conservative position, like U2 band manager calling the plan �backfired,� and Kiss frontman saying Radiohead is �on crack.�

Fellow bandmate Ed O�Brien, the member of the Board of Directors of the Featured Artists Coalition, joins Tom Yorke, believing that it will be just a matter of time (and most likely months rather than years) for the music labels to sink like holey ships.

Featured Artists Coalition is dedicated to assisting artists take control of their future and works, and profit from the possibilities presented by digital world. In other words, they are trying to create a reality where musicians would finally get paid for their works, but they feel themselves disagreeing with the self-protecting interests of the entertainment industry.

What Yorke is trying to deliver to the artists is that record labels are a distinct entity of the industry with their own aims, which are most often profits. In these terms they only see a musician as a source for making revenue. That�s why Yorke is sure that the collapse of music labels won�t be a big concern for fans who rather care about the quality of music.

------------------
Bo pen nyang.