Radiohead has been among the most prominent rock bands to embrace the Internet as a music distribution platform—particularly with its pay-what-you-want launch of 2007 album In Rainbows. Since then, its members have frequently spoken out about how musicians have been denied their hard-earned cash by both major labels and music-streaming services.

On Monday, pop music blog Consequence of Sound caught wind of an Italian magazine Q&A with lead singer Thom Yorke before the musician's planned performance at a concert linked to the UN's latest climate talks. According to Consequence of Sound's translation, the chat went all over the place and included Yorke's thoughts about how he discovers new music lately.

"I certainly do not use YouTube," Yorke told La Repubblica. He explicitly called the company out for not paying artists or only paying them "small sums," even though the service runs advertisements before music videos play.

“They make money from the work of artists who do not get any benefit," Yorke said (according to the translation). "Service providers make money: Google, YouTube. A lot of money. ‘Oh, sorry, was it yours? Now it's ours. No, no, we are joking, it is always yours.’ They seize it. It’s like what the Nazis did during the Second World War. Actually, they all did that during the war, the British, too—steal the art from other countries. What’s the difference?”

The interview didn't include questions about how much money Yorke or Radiohead make from YouTube video plays or streams on services such as Apple Music and Spotify, though Yorke did thank fellow indie-rock legend David Byrne for speaking out about Spotify in 2013. "Ah, finally, I'm not the only one saying, 'hey, excuse me, this isn't fair.'" Yorke is far from the first artist to voice displeasure with the new music economy, but statements from Spotify and YouTube have consistently touted paying hundreds of millions of dollars to musicians.

Alternatively, Yorke did call his 2014 solo album launch partnership with BitTorrent unsuccessful. "I wanted it to be an experiment," he said. "It was a reaction to everything that was going on. People always and only spoke about Spotify. I wanted to show that, in theory, today [a musician] could follow the entire chain of record production, from start to finish, on his own. But in practice it is very different. We cannot be burdened with all of the responsibilities of the record label."

While Yorke has been proactive about digital music distribution, he offered a brief get-off-my-lawn opinion about transitioning away from physical media. "With each vinyl there is a relationship, even physical. Like when I DJ, there is this direct contact, you have to take the album, select it, put it in a bag, put the bags in the cab, pull them down, open them, and so on. This rapport doesn't exist with digital media, with USB keys. And that has a corrosive effect on how the music is played."