If you checked out the main page of iTunes yesterday, you may have noticed something surprising: Radiohead’s entire catalog (and the group’s music videos) available as DRM-free downloads.

The band had originally held out because they wanted iTunes to only sell their albums as full albums, not as singles. But since the success of that whole In Rainbows thing (I’m sure you heard about it), it seems like a shrewd business move. It also happens to coincide with the EMI-curated Best of Radiohead compilation, so perhaps there’s a little undercutting on the part of the band going on here. They’ve given fans the opportunity to make their own Greatest Hits package.  

Radiohead were one of the last major bands that that didn’t have their back catalogs available for download after Led Zeppelin buckled last October. The last major acts that are still holding out are The Beatles (but reports have been swirling for almost two years that that will change), AC/DC (I can’t see how a band that made its career off of a handful of popular singles wouldn’t like iTunes format) and Garth Brooks (WTF?). [Billboard]   

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