Oasis album demand

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Noel Gallagher won't allow fans to pick their own price for the new Oasis album - because it cost too much money to make.

The Importance of Being Idle star has ruled out following in Radiohead's footsteps and permitting fans to pay what they want for Oasis' long-awaited Dig Out Your Soul in an Internet initiative ahead of the due date in October.

Although Gallagher has applauded Radiohead for being daring enough to pioneer the sales scheme, which turned their last album In Rainbows, into a big hit, he insists his band will not be doing the same.

He says: "That's not our bag. I didn't spend a year in the most expensive studio in England, with the most expensive producer in America, and the most expensive graphic designer in London to then give it away. F**k that."

Noel Gallagher (WENN image)

Radiohead offered an 'honesty box' policy with their In Rainbows release,where fans could pay as much as they thought the album was worth.

But Gallagher is convinced it was just a clever PR ploy.

He adds: "To be honest, to me it looked like marketing... a great way of getting a load of marketing for free really, but good for them. That's what they do, they're rebels and outsiders."

He has also confessed that he is confused by the present day music industry, because the process of releasing an album now is completely different to when the band first started out.

He says: "There's five different versions of the f**ker!

"There's a cheap digital one, there's a digital one that's slightly more expensive, there's a physical one in the shops, then there's a deluxe one, then there's a 'super deluxe' one which has got everything on it.

"What happened to the days when you just went and said, 'Can I buy the new Oasis album please?' And a guy went to a rack and he put it in a bag and he went (turns up his nose) 'It's not all that.'"

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Noel Gallagher (WENN image)