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The Slip - New Nine Inch Nails

05 May, 2008
By: fiona
Filed Under: downloading music, nine inch nails, release, trent reznor

I know I'm a tad late with this one, but head over to theslip.nin.com to download for free the entire new Nine Inch Nails album. I must admit, if he they released a physical version I'd buy it but it's nice of him them to put it out for free, no strings attached.

I miss album artwork!!!!!

Metallica - No, wait, we LIKE file sharing now!

26 April, 2008
By: fiona
Filed Under: downloading music, metallica, nine inch nails, rolling stone, trent reznor

It's always fun when people are proved wrong, especially when they sue people and have this "holier than thou" attitude...

Back in 2002 (I think?) Metallica were pissed at Napster (and its minions) for downloading music for free... and since the massive success of NIN (and radiohead) they're eating their words...

Lars told Rolling Stone
"We're looking at how we can embrace everything. We want to be as free players as possible. We've been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and in 27 years or however long it takes for the next record, we'll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the internet."

Sure. Before they were blasting the internet and people downloading music for free, and now they're embracing it?

I guess better late than never? You can't expect people of their age to be up with all this kind of technology and the way of the future... wait a minute ... Trent and Thom are like 20 years old aren't they? Damn kids and their technology!

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I - IV

03 March, 2008
By: fiona
Filed Under: downloading music, nine inch nails, release

Head on over here to listen to and buy the new Nine Inch Nails release.

It's an instrumental release of 36 tracks. If you think of previous instrumentals from NIN then you'll be familiar with these songs. It's somewhat techno, somewhat piano, but very NIN.

My favourite part of the entire thing though, is the fact that you can choose from so many different ways of purchasing the release, and you can download the first 9 tracks for free (320kbps!!!!!!!!! yeeaaah!). And the fact that they've standardised the price for overseas CD's is cool too (I'm assuming it had something to do with Trent walking into a HMV in Australia and seeing how overpriced year_zero was. Yay Australia for starting a revolution!!)

And the website rocks too. Rob Sheridan is also my hero.

CASH Music - Pay Your Rate for Music

20 February, 2008
By: fiona
Filed Under: downloading music, record label

So Radiohead letting their fans download their new album at whatever cost they sought fit must've opened the floodgates for other bands/artists to consider similar ways of distribution.

Meet CASH Music. You can choose several different "levels" in order to download some tracks from a few artists thus far.

The concept seems cool, but i'm the old fashioned "I need a CD in my collection" person. But as I said, the idea behind it is pretty cool, and if you have some serious spare cash, you can even get credits on the album/watch the artist in the studio or other pretty cool things.

It's definitely something to watch, and hopefully more artists will join this soon.

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Trent Reznor - I Just Want to Make Music

02 November, 2007
By: fiona
Filed Under: downloading music, nine inch nails, trent reznor

You have to hand it to Trent Reznor for remaining true to his musical ideals. In the face of record company chaos as a result of people illegally downloading music for free, he still doesn't say "don't steal music", but he doesn't want you to hear things unfinished, or "tainted".

"I'm truly saddened because I think music has been devalued, so that it's just a file on your computer, and it's usually free. But we can't change that. What we can do is try to offer people the best experience that we can provide them. Will it work? I don't know. But I think it's a great way to get music out to people who are interested. At the end of the day, all I care about is the integrity of the music, and that the feeling of those who experience it is as untainted as possible."

If only more people were concerned with the integrity of the music, rather than the money....

Read more gems from the holiness himself here.