Dear British record buying public,
What on earth is wrong with you? Last week Radiohead released their entire back catalogue on iTunes and you decide that the song you really want to buy is "Creep"? I'd have forgiven you if you'd managed to push "OK Computer" to the top of the album chart (or any other album of theirs for that matter). But really? Creep? You're just buying that song because it's the only thing you've bothered to listen to, same as you do with every other band. Don't try and argue that you're buying that song because you really like it and their other stuff doesn't do it for you, that line would only work if you had more than just "Smells Like Teen Spirit" filed under Nirvana.
If you want my advice —and let's face it you never do— then this is what you should have bought:
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I only have Smells Like Teen Spirit, but I guess the difference is the only Radiohead EP/album I don't own is Itch. I even bought Airbag when it was going second-hand for £25, only to discover EMI have re-released it and it's selling for a fiver at Fopp.
Paranoid Android, Everything In Its Right Place, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Go To Sleep, and I'm with you on Optimistic.