British singer Morrissey is too "institutionalized" to release his next album as an Internet-only download like Radiohead.

The former Smiths frontman, 48, has just signed a deal with record label Polydor/Decca, with a view to release his ninth solo album next year.

And although the Hand In Glove hitmaker is impressed by rockers Radiohead's move to release In Rainbows as a digital download - allowing customers to choose their own price - he deems it an idealistic step that doesn't appeal to him.

He says, "If they (Radiohead) think that can work that that's a wonderful world. And yes, you can look at record companies and you can easily assess that they've been ripping people off for years and years and years. The whole process is a gigantic rip off. But then there are people like me who need to be institutionalized... and I don't mean in an asylum!

"Believing that several thousand people are working to get your music heard is more inspiring to me than anything else."

Morrissey's last album, The Ringleader of the Tormentors, reached number one in the U.K. in 2006. It was released on Sanctuary Records but that deal ended earlier this year.

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