Interpol have been complaining about fans putting grainy recordings of new songs they performed live on YouTube, because it spoils the surprise when those songs appear on their new album. Speaking to Gigwise, the band's drummer, Sam Fogarino, said: "The advent of YouTube, to have your record portrayed in such a low fidelity medium is awful. I mean it's flattering that somebody feels the need to get the live performances up of these songs right away, but the thought of having our whole album on a DV cassette through some broadband wire is ridiculous".
The band, who have so far played three of their new songs at live shows, say they don't want to "risk" playing any more ahead of the release of 'Our Love To Admire' on 8 Jul because they don't want them appearing in questionable quality on the video sharing site. He continues: "You think about all the work that you put into producing that album and making it sound as grand as it does, and being exciting about finally unveiling, and then you just hear noise on YouTube. We just can't take that risk".
One suspects Fogarino should stop worrying about such things - given they're really isn't much anyone can do about it now everyone has a video recording mobile phone and access to millions of people via YouTube and their competitors. On the upside, as video phone and streaming technology improves, bootlegged recordings should improve in quality also. People will still nick your music, but at least they'll present their stolen goods in better quality formats. Hurrah for the future.