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I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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