In the wake of other artist's weighing in on Radiohead's anything-goes method of selling 'In Rainbows' (see Lily Allen, Tool), Hot Chip's Joe Goddard has a favorable opinion of the sale -- even though he got the album for free.

"I think that it was a good move on their part," Goddard tells Spinner. "If they hadn't chosen this strategy, their album probably would've leaked and then everyone would've paid nothing for it anyway." Goddard says that the make-your-own-price idea forces fans to think about the issue of "whether their music is valuable and worth something." Because Radiohead let fans decide how much, if anything, the album should cost, the freedom to choose encourages fans to recognize that they are receiving a product that did cost the manufacturer (the band) money to make.

"Having said that," Goddard admits, "I went onto the Radiohead website and put myself in the queue to get the album. It took so long that in the end, I just went to the different blogs and downloaded it from there because I just wanted to hear it. Even though I'm part of a band that relies on people spending their own money for me to have a career, I didn't pay any money to get that record."

Hot Chip's newest album, 'Made in the Dark,' goes on sale with a traditional price tag on February 6.