Rather than ask American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis where he learned to beatbox or what he thought of Jordin Sparks’ debut album’s lackluster sales, we inquired as to how much Lewis, a known Radiohead fan, paid for In Rainbows. Well, he didn’t actually buy it yet, but when he does, Lewis says, “I’d probably spend $40 or something, just because that’s cool and they’re going a different route.”

Someone should make Blake aware that for an additional $40 he could get that equally cool CD2 (check out our track-by-track analysis here) with the discbox purchase. Still, $40 is generous, considering Blake hasn’t really loved Radiohead’s output of the, oh, last ten years. “I was a fan of the old Radiohead stuff. I never really got into the newer because I love The Bends, Pablo Honey and OK Computer. Those are my three,” Lewis says, before inadvertantly contradicting himself by adding, “I love the avant-garde stuff.” We were wondering why Lewis didn’t cover Amnesiac’s “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” on AI. The question now is, will Blake Lewis becomes this year’s Daughtry/Aiken, a.k.a. the Idol loser that outsells the winner? (His Audio Day Dream is hitting shelves this week to slightly more fanfare than Sparks’ self-titled debut.) While we anxiously await the Billboard numbers, feast your eyes on Lewis’ possibly In Rainbows-inspired video for “Break Anotha” above.

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