Ever since internet geeks worked out how to send songs to each other over the internet instead of HTML coding, the whole world has gone filesharing daft.
No longer do people have to pay money for albums when they can steal them off the internet. To try and stop this, record companies have gone to great lengths to try and offer deluxe packages.
Bands like Radiohead sold limited edition artwork packs with shiny photos and exclusive songs that couldn’t be bought in the shops. Others followed suit, and we’ve heard a rumour that Chris Martin from Coldplay will include a single pube in the first 472 pressings of their new album. Josh Freese who was in Nine Inch Nails has gone one better – buy his album and you can play Ouija board and take drugs with him!
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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.
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These days it seems like you're not a real band unless you give your music away free for a fortnight and then triple the price of your concert tickets for the privilege.
Radiohead did it, The Charlatans are doing it, and now gloomy old Nine Inch Nails are sort of vaguely doing it a bit as well. Sort of. A bit.
Nine Inch Nails are releasing their 36-tack instrumental album Ghosts I-IV on the internet for free, with the option of spending more to upgrade to something a touch swankier. Truly, historians will look back on this day as the moment when Nine Inch Nails really shook up the long-established Miserable Ambient Wank That Nobody Would Have Paid For Anyway industry. That's right Trent! Stick it to the man!
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