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There were complaints in certain online circles about the sound quality of the In Rainbows downloads, but surprisingly, considering the sonic complexity of their own records, none of the members of Radiohead are audio geeks. "That sort of hi-fi sound-quality thing really annoys me," says Jonny Greenwood. "I was in London talking to a label guy once, and we got on to this subject, and I said hi-fi is just about middle-aged men trying to make music sound as good as it did when they were teenagers, and it never will. They'll never be as excited as they were when they first heard that music coming out of just one speaker. They'll never get that close to it again." Greenwood smiles sheepishly. "Later, I found out he's got this amazing record player and spends all of his time upgrading his system."

I thought the new Radiohead recording sounds poor. In a Rolling Stone issue I read a RadioHead article where Tom York described "audiophiles" as old people trying to relive their youth and the passion they had for music when they were young. That is not a direct quote, but it was something along those lines.

EDIT: I just found the article, and my mistake, it was Jonny Greenwood

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... adiohead/3