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The event will air on Current TV and Current.com starting 5am British time on the 31st of December, and will repeat three times throughout the next day.

Radiohead hosted a similar webcast in early November, during which the band played new material as well as such covers as the Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual", Bjork's "Unravel" and New Order's "Ceremony".

The "In Rainbows" CD will go on sale in stores next week. It was first made available a few months ago, when fans could download it from the web for a price of their own choosing.

The experiment has been a mixed success. As PC Pro revealed in November, downloaders paid an average of just £1.08 for the album.

According to market research firm, ComScore, 62% elected to pay nothing whatsoever, while fewer than 12% paid more than £4.