Entitled “The Slip”, Trent Reznor gives his new full length album out for free. Saying that this one was on him for the support and loyalty his fans have shown him. Download it now for free!
Wow I wasn’t expecting it to just be, completely free, Trent is the man.
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I love how Trent Reznor treats his fans, awesome stuff. Just enter your email address and post code and you’ll get an email with the download link. The track is pretty damn good, it’s the cliche NIN sound but I never seem to get tired of it. In the ID3 tag under comments it says to visit NIN on the 5th of May. Hopefully an album release, who knows, I’m keen though.
From Trent’s blog posts and the numerous releases, he’s obviously testing the waters to see what the best model is to sell his music, without fucking over the fans at the same time, and it’s something that very few high profile artists are doing. He’s definitely gaining a lot of cred from the internet community and his fans. I just hope other artists and record companies are taking notice of what he’s doing.
Saul Williams is the next hero in the destruction of the Music Industry as we know it. A US hip hop artist with a pretty kick ass sound. He’s distributing his album using a similar method to Radiohead, however you can only either pay $5 or nothing, which is rather cool. The other advantage they have available is the faster that there’s 3 versions to choose from. 192KBps MP3, 320Kbps MP3, or Lossless FLAC for the audiophiles. I bought the album to support the cause, after I listened to a few of his tracks I found on youtube that is. The album is pretty cool, it’s produced by Trent Reznor of NIN and you can hear some of that coming though, not enough to annoy you though. Definitely worth the buy I reckon. The text on the More Info page of the Niggy Tardust website is great, I love it:
My Dearest Friends and Fans,
It is my greatest honor to present to you The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!,
my new album produced by Trent Reznor and mixed by Alan Moulder. The wall of sound that we’ve created is tagged with such graffiti that a passerby would seek out doors and ways to ENTER. Once inside a world defined by dreams come true they’d find aligned with the simplest act of sharing what we treasure. Most people aren’t aware of the world of art and commerce where exploitation strips each artist down to nigger. Each label, like apartheid, multiplies us by our divide and whips us ’til we conform to lesser figures. What falls between the cracks is a pile of records stacked to the heights of talents hidden from the sun. Yet the energy they put into popularizing smut makes a star of a shiny polished gun. The ballot or the bullet for Mohawk or the mullet is a choice between new times and dying days. And the only way to choose is to jump ship from old truths and trust dolphins as we swim through changing ways. The ways of middlemen proves to be just a passing trend. We need no priests to talk to God. No phone to call her. And when you click the link below, i think it fair that you should know that your purchase will make middlemen much poorer…NiggyTardust!
love,
Saul
There’s so much stuff going on with the intarweb at this very moment. I just got an email telling me I could download Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows, which I preordered earlier. The new episode of Martin Sargent’s Web Drifter has been released, and in less than an hour, Half Life 2 : Episode 2 and Portal are released. It’s craziness.
