U2 manager Paul McGuinness says the "honesty box" method Radiohead used for the initial release of their album In Rainbows, wasn't entirely successful.
Talking to BBC 6 Music, McGuinness says his band would embrace "whatever technology is available", but added letting fans to pay what they thought the music was worth, is not the way forward.
"Even though it was available on their own website for no money at all, if that was what you preferred to pay - 60 to 70 per cent of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway even though it was available for free," says McGuinness.
"There will be events around the release of the album but for U2 physical sales are still an enormous part of our business and we still sell a lot of actual CDs. We will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make the release of the new record as interesting as possible."
U2 are still working on their next studio album, which is currently aimed at an October release. The band will also be re-releasing three of their older albums with bonus material next month - more details can be found at this article.
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