When labels are doing what they're supposed to do they're not evil. That is, when they're helping people expand their musical horizons by providing them with musical experiences, and helping bands share their art and/or hard work with the world. However, these days, the major labels have become incredibly greedy and money driven. Of course, one can understand the need for a business to make money, but it seems that the majors have become SO obsessed with business that they've lost vision of the music. Now that high speed internet can bring almost anyone in the world any music that their heart desires and allow people to discover all kinds of new musical experiences, things are drastically changing. The role of the major record label has changed and is changing with every download and myspace hit. They will never die, because good businessmen know how to stay afloat no matter what, and these are some of the best. But, now people have more power than ever before to discover great bands and songs on their own; every computer is becoming its own record label, in essence. As for Radiohead, they're only able to make their new album a label free release because of how much previous support they've received from their label (or labels, I'm not that sure of their history in that regard). Would O.K. Computer be anything more than a cult-classic, raved about only by a few superfans in the UK, if it were a label-free release?