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Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts
Now that he's free of a recording contract, Trent Reznor has decided to put out an instrumental album, Ghosts, and you can get the first disc of the two-disc set for free. For $5, you can get both albums as high-quality DRM-free MP3's along with a 40 page PDF booklet.
If you want to spend more, you can get a retail set of real Cds, and even up to a monster deluxe set with CD's, vinyl, and more hand-numbered and signed by Reznor.
I've been a big NIN fan for 15 years now, and he's always been on the front end of this kind of stuff. I'm excited to hear this instrumental album, and I'm more then happy to plunk down my $5. More artists should follow what he's doing and eschew the record label setup and market and sell directly to fans. Less overhead, more connections with people.
Posted by Mike at March 3, 2008 1:37 PM | Add to del.icio.usPass.
If he only spent 5 mins and told a story about his aching roid or something over the tunes I would be all in and willing to spend $5.
The thing that is going to really bother me the most is that later on, he's going to moan how sales sucked and how he doesn't understand what we as fans want to get music. We want a NiN album! Try putting out a real,new album with this model and see how that works. Just because nobody paid for Niggy Tardust doesn't mean the model is broke, maybe just the talent.
