That kook Trent Reznor and his band of industrial techno metal whingers collectively known as Nine Inch Nails have released their new album- entitled "The Slip"- for free on da webz.
Rezzy, as the band's frontman shall now and forever be known, is no great fan of the record industry. When on tour in Australia last year, he was angered to see that his album, "Year Zero", was priced at around $35, while fellow Universal Music Group artist Avril Lavigne's CD, entitled "Songs for caving your head in with a spade"*, was only $20 packaged with a free, all expenses paid trip to Ibiza and a voucher for a frontal lobotomy**. Responding to the abhorrently large price to pay for the complete CD package, Reznor commented that "as a reward for being a 'true fan' (for buying the CD) you get ripped off". At one of his Australian dates, Reznor even asked the crowd to "Steal and steal and steal some more (music) and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'" as a protest to his label, Interscope.
Nine Inch Nails left Interscope in October of last year, declaring himself a "free agent"
Nine Inch Nails released an album of instrumental tracks, called "Ghosts I-IV", last month, part of which was free to download from the band's official website. Now, following a single released seemingly out of the blue entitled "Discipline"-again free from the website- Nine Inch Nails have released the album from whenst it came. You can download "The Slip" in a number of different digital formats (high quality mp3, Apple Lossless files, FLAC, or the massive WAV version, which clocks in at about 1.2 GB!!!) from
http://theslip.nin.com
I've got in in MP3, not needing stupidly detailed quality and fearing that it would be crap.
It isn't, as it happens. I haven't the time to tell you about it now, so if you're interested in free doom goth electro metal of the highest quality, go to the link above NOW.
*It was actually called this, I swear.
**A slight lie- it wasn't for a FREE frontal lobotomy, just a heavily discounted one.
