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# Portishead Against The Machine: “There Will Be NO Bonus Tracks, NO Remixes [On Our New Album].”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/portishead-against-the-machine-there-will-be-no-bonus-tracks-on-our-new-album/
- Published: 2011-01-07T12:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-01-07T12:20:00.000Z
- Description: Every once and awhile, an artist gets fed up with the music industry BS and throws up their hands. Portishead's Geoff Barrow is one of those people. On his Twitter,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/01/portishead-against-the-machine-there-will-be-no-bonus-tracks-on-our-new-albu
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[![image from www.clashmusic.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20148c7643d95970c-200wi "image from www.clashmusic.com")](http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big%5Fnode%5Fview/files/portishead%5F5.jpg?ref=hypebot.com) Every once and awhile, an artist gets fed up with the music industry BS and throws up their hands. Portishead's **Geoff Barrow** is one of those people. On his Twitter, Barrow set the expectations that fans should have of their follow-up to 2008's 'Third'. Clearly, someone in the social media department pissed Barrow off something good, because every point he nails is all-the-good-advice they've been dishing out to artists. Let musicians rejoice at Barrow's **objections** to the changing times:  
- There will be **NO** free downloads. There will be **NO** bonus tracks. There will be **NO** remixes. There will be **NO** hidden footage.
- There will be **NO** additional content. There will be **NO** corporate partners. There will be **NO** fashion lines. There will be **NO** tabloid pictures.
- There will be **NO** £25 unit cost. There will be **NO** street team. There will be **NO** MySpace. There will be **NO** celeb producer. There will be **NO** twitter.
- There will be **NO** press/blogger gig. There will be **NO** acoustic session. There will be **NO** meet and greet. There will be **NO** edited version.
- There will be **NO** iTunes only. There will be **NO** press launch. There will be **NO** Asian version. There will be **NO** radio friendly.
So what the hell should fans expect from the new album? Barrow boldly states, "**Just music and us**." It's a big thing to promise. In the world where fans expect increasingly more from artists, Barrow says that great music is all they're getting.—How **many times** have you wanted to say this – **scream this** out loud?