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Practice What You Preach: New NIN Album on BitTorrent

Posted by James | Filed under Music, Play, Web

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It’s not like we doubted him, but Trent Reznor really meant it when he said that he hates the way the music industry operates and that he encourages sharing of his music on the Internet.

Nine Inch Nails have put up the first volume of their album ‘Ghosts’ on torrent sites, under a creative commons license. If you want to the whole package of the multi-volume album (36 tracks; ~ 2 hours!) though, you can go over to NIN’s official site and download it for $5. You can also order a 2xCD box set for a mere $10, "deluxe limited edition package" for $70, and you can get an "ultra-deluxe limited edition package" for $300.

Let me just stop here for a moment and say, if there’s one album I’m gonna buy this year (I usually go to concerts and buy t-shirts as I feel the band profits more directly from this), it’s going to be this one (just ordered the $10 package). Finally, you get really great value for money, and you get a fantastic number of options which cater to every pocket. I’m sure that fans will realise this and get the option they can afford, be it free, or the ultra-deluxe version.

Here’s what Trent has to say about BitTorrent:

Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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