Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has spoken out against the band’s former record label, EMI, over their plans to release a ‘Greatest Hits’ album against the group’s wishes.

The rockers’ contract with the label ended last year; and they decided to giveaway their current album, ‘In Rainbows’, as a free download before releasing it with XL, the same label who had also put out Yorke’s 2006 solo album ‘The Eraser’.

Says Yorke, “We haven’t really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?

“There’s nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good.”

Speaking about the band’s decision to leave EMI, Yorke added to The Word: “Personally I just wanted to forget about it. It didn’t feel right. And now it’s like when you move house: you don’t want to peer through the window and see what they’ve done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you.”

Yorke also dismissed claims from EMI chief Guy Hands that the band had demanded $20million to re-sign with the label

“The idea what we were after so much money as to stretching the truth to breaking point,” he declared. “That was his PR company briefing against us..I was so angry…it was a clear indication that the relationship was over.”