NEW NIN:GHOSTS I-IV (FREE DOWNLOAD!)

Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.

Trent Reznor explains, "I've been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn't have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective - dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I'm very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts."

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home

I've already paid for it (as CDs), got it on a torrent (as the NIN site is overloaded), changed my avatar to the cover, and listening to it now.

 

yeah i will totally get the paid, legal download! woo!!! how is it richie?

Following the expiration of his contract with Interscope Records, Reznor is taking a cue from Radiohead and distributing Nine Inch Nails’ new instrumental album, “Ghosts I-IV,” on his own in several formats. Nine of its 36 tracks can be downloaded for free from the band’s Web site, nin.com. The full album can be downloaded for $5 from the same site (with a 40-page PDF file) or from amazonmp3.com.

The album will also be made available in stores on April 8 in multiple formats: as a two-disc digi-pack for $10; as a two-CD set in hardcover fabric slipcase with a Blu-ray DVD containing data files of the multitrack recording for $75; and a limited edition of 2,500 $300 sets containing the CD and vinyl versions with a Giclee print enclosure signed by Reznor.

OK, I've been listening to this continuously since I discovered it had been released late Monday night. As a card-carrying NIN fan for well more than 12 years my opinion may be a bit one sided... but I think this is one spectacular piece of music. Intense, intriguing, complex, **insert a bunch of describing words**, not something that could win a Grammy, but still the pinnacle of electronic music production.

It's much like a movie soundtrack, a cross between the Quake soundtrack and The Fragile. With the 36 tracks it seems to encompass almost all styles of music.

I highly recommend it to any one with an open mind and an interest in music

How does it compare to previous NIN stuff which I have basically hated. If it's anything like his previous stuff than I won't bother with the download is all.

yeah gonna download now! and buy the $10 cd thingy when it gets released. cant wait to hear it, sounds really ambient n the  like as well as pretty hard electronica n metal rock!

Yeah but you've liked "music" in the past that is seriously unacceptable to the rest of us (hard house, cuntcore, etc)... this abum is seriously really interesting. I'm not going to say much more as I'm biased.

got it ready to listen to now. cant wait

  cuntcore

cant say ive been a big NIN fan, just never hugely grabbed me, but i certainly wouldnt turn it off if it were on - its usually interesting enough. im intrigued enough to give this a listen... garn josh, listen before dissin.

sounds pretty good the half hour i heard of it.

more like a soundtrack/score than an album

I want to but I've seriously raped my limit this month so every meg is at a premium until the 15th. Hence my queries before I do the download.

Nine Inch Nails make $1.6m on free album

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23390248-5014239,00.html

INDUSTRIAL band Nine Inch Nails has made $US1.6 million ($1.7 million) from an album offered as a free download and deliberately leaked to file-sharing websites.

The band released its sixth studio album, Ghosts I-IV, online on March 2. Fans could download the album for free, an extended version in high-quality for $US5 or order a copy on CD for $US10.

Two "deluxe" versions of the instrumental album featuring a Blu-ray disc and book of photography were available for $US75 and $US300.

Representatives of the band said on Friday that sales of all versions of the album had generated more than $US1.6 million in the first week, The New York Times reported.

In that time almost 800,000 people either bought the album or downloaded it for free.

Singer Trent Reznor said he was amazed at how popular the band's first instrumental album had been.

"First of all, a sincere THANK YOU for the response to Ghosts. We are all amazed at the reaction for what we assumed would be a quiet curiosity in the NIN catalog," Reznor said on his blog.

After releasing Ghosts I-IV on the official Nine Inch Nails website, Reznor said the band "personally" uploaded the album to infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay.

“We believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them,” Reznor said in a message on the website.

One thankful downloader said more artists should be utilising BitTorrent technology.

“Now all we need are more artists shunning the labels and releasing stuff independently and then maybe all this crap will finally stop,” they said.

In a concert in Sydney last September, Reznor reportedly described his then record label Universal Music Australia as "greedy f***ing assholes" because of the price of his earlier records.

"One way or another these mother f***ers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right."

Earlier this month Reznor also criticised British band Radiohead, who released their seventh album In Rainbows as a download last October, for failing to cater to fans.

Users were asked to pay whatever they wanted for In Rainbows – including nothing – but could only download it in a low-quality audio format.

"If you look at what they did... it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream as a way to promote a very traditional record sale," Reznor told Triple J reporter Michael Atkin.

"There's nothing wrong with that – but I don't see that as a big revolution (that) they're kinda getting credit for," he said.

Well I guess if you don't like the old NIN stuff (I don't either) you can let this one go, screw paying a premium.