Climb up the walls of (and disappear completely inside) the Radiohead Public Library digital archives

Radiohead is so beloved that just about everything surrounding the band’s album releases, from B-sides and interviews to rare performances of unrecorded songs, is pored over, collected, and endlessly discussed by its most obsessive fans. In the past, the group has been pretty strategic about what material it legitimizes, only rarely compiling older work or, in the rare event of something as substantial as an enormous leak of OK Computer outtakes, releasing unfinished audio. Now, despite going to sleep last night thinking there were no surprises in store for this morning (Mr. Magpie), daydreaming fans have awoken to a huge repository of songs, videos, and merchandise packt like sardines into a website called the Radiohead Public Library.

There’s far too much included to list in its entirety here, but as an example of what’s available: There’s Radiohead’s unused Bond theme song; a quality version of the From The Basement performances of The King Of Limbs and In Rainbows; uploads of music videos like the excellent “There There” and “Knives Out”; photo galleries; all sorts of broadcast concerts; and ancient tracks and live sets from the band’s very beginnings. As a press release details, the Library also includes “a number of previously unavailable Radiohead rarities” for streaming “and download, including the band’s 1992 debut, the Drill EP, “I Want None of This” from the 2005 charity compilation Help!: A Day in the Life, and the 2011 TKOL RMX 8 remix EP.”All of it is organized around each album’s release, running from the earliest days surrounding Pablo Honey right up to the present and Burn The Witch.