The widely reported story that Radiohead fans opted to pay nothing or nearly nothing has been debunked by the bank themselves. As in the original story, the numbers were drawn from a report by comScore, and reported by The Associated Press.

They made the following statement:

In response to purely speculative figures announced in the press regarding the number of downloads and the price paid for the album, the group's representatives would like to remind people that… it is impossible for outside organisations to have accurate figures on sales.

However, they can confirm that the figures quoted by the company comScore Inc are wholly inaccurate and in no way reflect definitive market intelligence or, indeed, the true success of the project.

However, the band has declined to publish any official numbers making it very difficult to make any sort of assertion about the future of the donation–sales method.