Robert Reams Radiohead

Forget about Kanye West's recent--and narcissistic, as usual--attack on Radiohead. Of more importance is what Cure frontman Robert Smith had to say last week about the Oxford quintet's 'pay-what-you-wish' approach to their most recent studio album In Rainbows:

"I disagreed violently with that. You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all and that's nonsense.

If I put a value on my music and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan, it can't work."

Old fogey who doesn't get it or principled artist? What's your take?