Music executives in their plush Board rooms are cursing Trent Reznor.
… Nine Inch Nails is offering its new album, “The Slip,” through its Web site — for nothing.
… the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.”
The album … appears to represent the first time a superstar act has distributed an entire album without any opportunity for people to pay for it. Its release comes two months after the band issued the instrumental album “Ghosts I-IV” and allowed fans to obtain a portion of it for free or the entire recording for $5. Before that, the British rock act Radiohead broke with convention by offering its 2007 album, “In Rainbows,” online under a tip-jar-style setup in which people could name their own price — including zero. …
As with the “Ghosts I-IV,” the new album is being released with a Creative Commons license, an unconventional type of intellectual-property license that allows the copyright holder to specify which rights it does and does not reserve. The band is allowing fans to share or remix the music for non-commercial purposes. …
Reznor is on the right track, trying innovative ways to promote and market. I did download one song. Sadly, I don’t enjoy their music.
Great Destroyer – Live. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (WARNING – you may want to be PAID to listen to this.)
Did you make it through the entire video?
… I didn’t think so.
LIVE it might be life altering.
The only great NIN song was sung by Johnny Cash.
