Elbow frontman hails Pink Floyd court victory

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey backs Pink Floyd after their recently legal victory against their record label to stop digital sales of individual tracks. Pink Floyd claimed that EMI had no right to sell their work track by track saying it should be sold only as a complete album. "I was over the moon when I heard that Pink Floyd had won," Garvey told The Guardian. "They successfully asserted their right to make their albums available only to download in full, and not as individual tracks. It wasn't because I saw it as a David v Goliath victory – Pink Floyd are pretty gigantic – but because, as a musician, the integrity of the album means everything to me." He continued: "We wanted our most recent album, 'The Seldom Seen Kid', available only to download in full, or in bundles of tracks – but we were met with huge opposition. We think of Elbow albums as novels with chapters. When you've put your heart and soul into something, you want people to hear it as it was intended."