Radiohead's Thom Yorke Bashes Spotify on Twitter, Withdraws Music: Atoms for Peace & Solo Records Removed from Streaming Service

Thom Yorke and his longtime collaborator and producer, Nigel Godrich, have publicly announced their disdain for the music streaming service Spotify on Twitter and have decided to withdraw some of their work from the service's catalog. Yorke, the lead singer of innovative modern rock n' roll band Radiohead, will pull his solo album, The Eraser, and his latest album with his band Atoms for Peace, AMOK. Godrich, who was heavily involved in these two projects and has removed his band Ultraista from the service as well, has described this stance against Spotify as a "small meaningless rebellion."

Fed up with the amount of royalties that artist make from Spotify, Yorke took to Twitter to vent his frustration, eventually ending with his decision to pull his music. He informed his followers "new artists get paid f*ck all with this model," and that he and Godrich were "standing up for our fellow musicians,"

"Make no mistake new artists you discover on #Spotify will not get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples," Thom tweeted.

"The numbers don't even add up for Spotify yet," Godrich argued on Twitter. "But it's not about that. It's about establishing the model which will be extremely valuable. Meanwhile small labels and new artists can't even keep their lights on. It's just not right."

"Spotify and the like either have to address that fact and change the model for new releases or else all new music producers should be bold and vote with their feet. [Streaming services] have no power without new music," Godrich tweeted.

Though Yorke has received some backlash on Twitter as a result of removing his work from Twitter, other artists have decided to join in on this small rebellion.

Four Tet (the stage name for post rock and electronic act Kieran Hebden) said: "I don't get why [it's] such a big deal to not do Spotify. My music [is] easy to get elsewhere. I'm just not into it."

Spotify has yet to release a statement in response to the withdrawal of these artists.