U2 Manager Says Radiohead In Rainbows experiment "backfired"

The competition to be Biggest Band in the World must be pretty fierce, so you can forgive U2 manager Paul McGuiness a little if he wants to downplay the positive press heading Radiohead's way of late. McGuiness, while talking to BBC 6 Music about the plan of attack for U2's upcoming album, mentioned that Radiohead's pay-what-you-will model for In Rainbows in October had “to some extent backfired." [link]