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Nine Inch Nails have always been pioneers, first in making rubbish music for sad idiots and now in innovative distribution methods. Following an experiment with some self-indulgent noodly-doodly instrumental tracks earlier this year, Nine Inch Nails has decided to give its new album away to fans for free, without even an option to pay anything, until it comes out on CD when you suckers will have to cough up. This move by Nine Inch Nails obviously has its critics, who claim that giving away music for free devalues it to the point where it becomes worthless. But these critics are plainly fools - the music of Nine Inch Nails has always been kind of worthless to everyone except for panda-eyed 13-year-olds with BO and a low-level interest in self harm. This just levels the playing field out a bit.
Last year the music industry cacked itself senseless as Radiohead decided to break the monotonous music industry procedures.
Others have since copied Radiohead and given their music away for free. And today another major band is set to do the
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Here at hecklerspray, we love Ladytron more than a sackful of Baby Jesuses.
Their albums Light And Magic and Witching Hour have contained some of the most pleasurable pop moments of the decade, so we were mightily pleased to hear that they've got a new album coming out: Velocifero, hitting those shelves on June 8th.
What's that?
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When Radiohead announced that fans could pay whatever they wanted for new album In Rainbows, it was meant to show that a band could trust its fans to acknowledge all the work that goes into an album's creation and pay accordingly.
Yeah, hasn't happened. Of all the people who downloaded In Rainbows last month, less than half of them actually paid anything at all for it, it's been revealed. According to researchers ComScore, only about 40% of people who downloaded In Rainbows by Radiohead decided that paying money to hear it was a good idea, spending an average sum of just $2.26 for it. Although this could be seen as a disastrous embarrassment for Radiohead, the band shouldn't get too downhearted - after all, most bands would struggle to charge $2.26 for a bunch of songs that sound like a bunch of Broken Social Scene B-sides in the first place.
