Thom Yorke has 'utmost respect' if you're not on Twitter or Facebook

Thom Yorke, a man who released his album on BitTorrent and is himself on Twitter, has said he has the 'utmost respect' for anyone not on social media.

The Radiohead frontman issued an email letting fans know that they may have missed the announcement that he has a new album out.

"[It] may be perhaps because you don't engage with 'social media' in which case you have my utmost respect," Yorke explained. Read the message in full below.



Yorke released the album exclusively through BitTorrent on 26 September and according to BitTorrent stats his second solo LP has been downloaded 1.1 million times (although this figure does include the free bundle).

BitTorrent's Chief Content Officer, Matt Mason, recently spoke to The Fader about the release and what he hopes can come out of this experiment.

Mason revealed that the idea of the BitTorrent bundle was in fact inspired by Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want model for their seventh album ‘In Rainbows’ and said: “It’s just been the absolute gold standard for how to do something direct-to-fan on the internet.”

Indeed, BitTorrent’s audience is vast. The service reaches 170 million people each month, making it an audience larger than twice the combined audience of Spotify, Netflix, Hulu and BandCamp.