I know what you're thinking: Everybody wants to be Radiohead and that's why Saul Williams' new album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" gives us all a choice – pay 5 dollars and download the full album in a great 320Kbps MP3 format or pay nothing and download the full album in an almost-as-good 192Kbs MP3 format (just so you'll know, Radiohead's album came in a disappointing 160Kbs MP3 format).

But Saul Williams is not aiming to be Radiohead. Actually, it won't surprise me if I find out that Williams thought of this great idea long before anyone else. See, I adore Radiohead - just like the rest of the world I'm in love with "In Rainbows" and believe that these British guys are pure geniuses, but free music for the masses sounds like a good ol' Saul Williams thang, right?

Of course, what matter is not the how but the what, and Saul Williams' new album, again - kinda like Radiohead's one, is one gigantic superlicous "what". As soon as our tiny 8hands octopus got a hold of it he started to throw all of his hands in the air. In other words, our purple little friend went social, and I'm not talking about networking.

Saul Williams was always a political being and a great musician and he still is. He also used to be a hip-hopper and a poet, but not no more – he took his hip-hopping to such a far away place that you could hardly find it and he left his preaching ways in the street that raised him. Seriously, you can hardly recognize the new Saul Williams.

His lyrics are still sharp and his attitude is as hard as ever, but the theme changed – he sings, yells and pushes the beats that Trent Reznor produced for him to the maximum. You can find tons of different influences in it – from the album title's "NiggyTardust" through the hardcore Autechre-like "Black History Month" and all the way to the "Sunday Bloody Sunday" cover. Saul Williams is no longer a rapper or a poet, that's true. But he is one talented artist. So download his album, for free or not for free. It doesn't really matter, as long as you listen to the music.