Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album

An anonymous reader writes "Convinced the current music business infrastructure (requiring artists to rely on labels) is broken, Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, released his band's new album, Ghosts I — IV (Ghosts Volumes One though Four), on Sunday at 6 PM via his official site, marking yet another business experiment for this artist in the changing music market."

Groan.

[Funkcikle]

Ghosts I -- IV (Ghosts Volumes One though Four)

Gee, thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was some new direct injection content delivery method.

Re:Groan.

[somersault]

Well, it is Trent Reznor after all..?

Re:To clarify

[mh1997]

It's about time somebody came up with a method to get free music off the internet!

You just did what?!

[Bromskloss]

Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, released his band's new album

You should have seen the faces of the band!

Encryption

[digitalderbs]

Users couldn't figure out how to decrypt it until they figured out that the music was suppose to sound like that.

ok, bad joke. I've got a bad case of the Mondays.

Re:To clarify

[monkeyboythom]

If we are speaking of clarifications...then it must be admitted that Trent is not using this as a marketing gimmick but is really just trying to get anyone to listen to his stuff

Re:Microsoft follows Radiohead

[StingRay02]

Offers free Vista.

Gets no downloads.

Re:Microsoft follows Radiohead

[calebt3]

Well if that happened, there would be no reason not to switch to Linux. People say they use Windows because it costs money and therefore has value, while Linux is given away and therefore is worthless.

Server torture

[Tiger]

All I can say is... thank god for "wget -c". Their server room must be filling with smoke as I speak.

how dare that motherfucker give it away!

[jollyreaper]

Does he not realize that there are business models at stake here? Listen here, you little cockstain: you're our dancing monkey. You dance when we tell you to how we tell you to. We're not paying you peanuts, we're paying you peanut shells and you're going to yum them up, smack your lips and say "Please, sir, may I have some more!" You're going to do this or we'll fuck and chuck your sorry ass out the door and bring in some new wide-eyed innocent ten years younger and dumber than you and build them up to be the new you. You hear that, you shit, you worm, you groveling clown? You are a commodity, a consumable, something that is used up and replaced by an interchangeable part. You stand up to us and we'll pound your ass until you're shitting blood. This is our industry, our money, and you are nothing, nothing!!!

This message brought to you by the RIAA. Go out and buy something, you mindless sheep.

Re:Alternative music.. alternative methods

[InsertCleverUsername]

I was raised having to listen to bands like Nirvana (the only ones I liked), Pearl Jam, Silverchair, Thearpy?, NiN, Smashing Pumpkins and all that alternative/grunge (sorry if I do not know the *specific* genre) until I vomited because my older brother used to play it all day long.

<sarcasm type="GoodNatured">Wow, you really had it rough --it's truly an inspiration to us all that you were able to overcome such a traumatic upbringing.</sarcasm>

I was the first child in my household and the soundtrack was non-stop Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and the Carpenters. I didn't even know how awful it was, until I was old enough to have friends with musical taste. I'm just damned lucky it didn't drive me to suicide.

Where's the beef?

[seanonymous]

I've tried downloading this several times and the server keeps giving up before the download completes. So far, I have some wallpaper. Can everyone else please stop trying to download so I can finish this, then I'll let you all know when I'm done so you can resume? Thanks!

Nine Inch Nails IS Trent Reznor

[poot_rootbeer]

"Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, released his band's new album"
You should have seen the faces of the band!

The bandmembers' names are Ghosts I - IV.