Vinyl Notes

Unable to sleep in the middle of the night, I decided to appease my insomnia by getting some reading done. Imagine my surprise and excitement to find my feedreader loaded with news of Nine Inch Nails new album. The best part? It’s available on the NIN website as a free download. Yay!

If you are an avid NIN fan like myself this album – The Slip is especially for you. From Trent Reznor himself:

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Almost two months after the online release of Ghosts, and fans are just receiving their hard copy CDs Nine Inch Nails has released a new single called “Discipline.” Talk about working at lightning speed. Trent Reznor and crew must be working overtime, cranking out music like a well oiled machine.

Speaking of machines, apparently Reznor was a autograph machine for the day and is signing the 2,500 “super-ultra-mega-deluxe GHOSTS” CDs on Thursday. After considering a live webcast of the signing, NIN thought better of it but still gave fans a chance to spend the day with them. ::snicker::

Nine Inch Nails is now a big time rouge band - since its contract with Interscope expired in October - with a cult following and in what many have likened to a Radiohead-esque move, has released their latest ablum Ghosts I-IV, on their official website only. Ghosts is an instrumental collection of “almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period” and Trent Reznor called it “a soundtrack for daydreams.”

While there are certainly parallels to Radiohead’s In Rainbows release, how quickly people forget that just under a year ago, NIN made a revolutionary move by making Year Zero available for streaming on their website as well as allowing fans the opportunity to “listen. Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you’d like.” Make no mistake, NIN is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of the music distribution.

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