Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
“Ghosts” is released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license and can be shared freely, something their fans weren’t allowed to do when the band was held back by a record label.
In the release notes the band writes: “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.”
This sounds is music to our ears, in more ways than one. For now, only the first volume has been uploaded onto BitTorrent sites, but the entire collection is available for download on the official website for only $5.
“Ghosts I is the first part of the 36 track collection Ghosts I-IV. Undoubtedly you’ll be able to find the complete collection on the same torrent network you found this file”. They further write in the release notes “But if you’re interested in the release, we encourage you to check it out at ghosts.nin.com, where the complete Ghosts I-IV is available directly from us in a variety of DRM-free digital formats, including FLAC lossless, for only $5.”
Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been a supporter of sharing music via BitTorrent, even when it’s copyrighted. He isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too, I’m not gonna say I don’t” he said. Later that year, when OiNK was pulled offline he admitted that he was a member there ,and said , : “If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now.”
The new Nine Inch Nails album including artwork is available for download on the official site, as well as on The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites. This is exciting for all us hard-core p2p users. While you’re waiting to try this new album make sure to play Fuck The Mpaa by the Futuristic Sex Robots.
source: torrentfreak.com, Ernesto
Comments(65)
Now.. what can’t all bands be like this?
Trent Reznor, we bow down to you!!! This is a true musical visionary who sees the way to go. let’s hope more artists see the light…
Fingers crossed it generates more sales than niggy tardust.
Goodbye corporate leeches, this is the beginning of the end for you. No more getting fat off artists music! Time to find a new line of work, the unemployment line maybe?
http://rapidshare.com/files/96657286/Nine_Inch_Nails_-_Ghosts_I__2008_.rar
listening to this since sunday. sounds like a soundtrack to me, 2-3 min insrumetnal tracks.
yo trent, where is the film??
Way to go Trent!
Did you know that this is basically how Trent started in the forst place? Upping his work on the net communities. I think I still have some of his stuff from the tracking scene, great stuff
why can’t the whole music industry do this…
Incredible band, incredible man (Reznor)
wow it sux but its free
how do they plan to fill their stomachs?
It was “free” anyway !
Real question is : Is it any good ?
HANG THOSE FILTHY PIRATES!!!!!!!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/095toh – Ghosts I
http://www.sendspace.com/file/22tfx9 – Ghosts II
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dvtbdp – Ghosts III
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q49797 – Ghosts IV
enjoy!
thanks to rlslog, i didnt know this was out, FYI i just bought it from the link on this site postage costs more that the double cd but i have everything and the collection requires it
Good move!
If I was a fan I would easily have paid 5 dollars for the album!
downloading it right now, way to go Nine Inch Nails!
And ofcourse thanks for sharing this info with us, mr. X
I’m gonna buy these albums no matter what! Even if they’re free on bittorent.
Now is the perfect chance for all of you “wah wah music is too expensive, wah wah DRM” -whiners to prove yourself.
This is 4 CDs of music in LOSSLESS DRM-FREE format for five measly dollars. That’s something like 3,20€ for us europeans.
Buy it even if you don’t like it, just to support the new way of selling music and prove the record execs that this is the route they should be taking. Give people options and they won’t steal.
@hirmu, don’t tell us what to buy.
I already give money to artists who release their stuff free, just cos someone big got on board does not mean I should give them money. It’s good big acts are willing to do this, but I still would never listen let alone buy this or any other album by him or NIN.
Get out of the mainstream, that in its self is killing the music industry. IMO.
Awesome. NIN rocks
Hang on…..they have made all thier money from being with a record label, now they can afford to make music for free.
I wounder how long it will be when they realise that 1000 ($5000) copies were downloaded yet they got paid for 150 copies($750) and not start to feel annoyed.
Donations work for charities, so unless they recognise themselves as a charity, they are going to be dissapointed in the long run.
Or maybe they are using the internet to get their music out there, then make the money on tours….which are now the money spinners.
WOW! I’ve just registered to NIN page and I’m downloading ‘Gost I’. If I like it, I will BUY whole album. It’s only 5$ (great idea Reznor!). I think we SHOULD pay to ARTISTS for their work.
Why is everyone falling for this?
They are logging your ip’s too see who is getting their album for free then going to come and get their money.
Where is this Fu(k the MPAA song that was mentioned in the main post? I want that song LoL!
@ sybull: Glad to see somebody who looks beyond the “it’s free” part of this. It’s nice to see a musician do this kind of thing, but it’s hardly going to matter. NIN isn’t exactly one of the greatest bands out there. It’s an aquired taste(and from listening to “Ghosts” I must again say that it’s certainly not mine).
NIN and Radiohead don’t make a dent in the music industries monopoly. As soon as some major “stars” (musicians that are mainstream and hugely popular) are releasing their, THEN we have a breakthrough.
@ the negative (or realistic) people here:
It has to start somewhere. I don’t listen to NIN and wont buy the stuff only because it’s cheap. But I sure hope the people who listens to them support them by paying the $5 on their website. If it doesn’t work for the pioneers, why would the huge mainstream stars even bother to follow? So regardless of NIN motives behind this, if you like the music, go buy it and pave the way for the digital revolution!
even when something is free you find people complaining.
just shutup
@sybull
They just SOLD OUT the $300 limited edition. That’s $300 x 2500 = $750 000 (minus expenses of course).
But you’re absolutely right about the becoming famous part. NIN wouldn’t be where they are now without record labels pushing their music in the first place.
There are very few artists who have gotten famous without a label’s help, most artists that start out free tend to “sell out” later (Machinae Supremacy, I’m looking at you).
to post #7
Under what exact alias and what was the name of those mods?
People in here are going on about how they won’t make much by selling the album at $5, you do realise that when artists are on a major record label they receive less than a dollar per album sold. So selling it at $5 for the 4 albums they are in fact making more money this way
all the money we save by stealing the music of other musicians, we could give to musicians who upload their work via bittorrent
yeah i heard its about a pound an album which is then divided by the band. most of the money the band makes comes from touring and merchandise sales.
@24: yeah, lets scam people into downloading stuff because tracking ip’s over bittorrent is such a hard thing to do -.-
It was “free” anyway !
Real question is : Is it any good ?
lol
@31, yet they did not have to pay for all the equipment they used; but alone, they need to.
@sybull
or they sell 10 million copies and have 100 million downloads… how many albums do you know that go diamond?
i want the 180 gram vinyl but dont wanna dish out $300 for it. so hopefully it will be sold separately.
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
VBR5
http://rapidshare.com/files/96949096/NIN_GHOSTS.rar.html
320kbps
http://rapidshare.com/files/96982841/NIN_Ghosts.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/96967954/NIN_Ghosts.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/96975576/NIN_Ghosts.part3.rar.html
Sorry for nitpicking, but Trent isnt exactly frontman, he is whole NiN ..
Right on. Not much for NiN but they made good music for Quake.
Not my style of music, but this is very impressive. Paying only 5USD for FLAC version and knowing that the money goes directly to the artists and nobody else, thats amazing!
Hope more bands do this, will get more people at gigs, sell more t shirts etc.-Good for the musicians, not so good for the fat cats at sony,wea etc.
another RS links
http://rapidshare.com/files/96908521/Nine_Inch_Nails-Ghosts_I-IV-WEB-2008-pLAN9x.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/96910769/Nine_Inch_Nails-Ghosts_I-IV-WEB-2008-pLAN9x.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/96911546/Nine_Inch_Nails-Ghosts_I-IV-WEB-2008-pLAN9x.part3.rar
no password needed
ENJOi…
another finest quality release today
Playradioplay-Texas-(Advance)-2008-RTB
http://rapidshare.com/files/96919693/Playradioplay-Texas-_Advance_-2008-RTB.rar
I’m a huge NIN fan but there are a few other business questions that need to be asked. First, while this is a relatively new trend, it is untested. The RIAA and artists are looking to see what can be accomplished this way. But the album is itself experimental and made in only 10 weeks. While I like it, it is inferior to their albums that have been record label backed. Too many test variables here to draw any conclusions whether it succeeds or fails. Also, NIN has been around since ‘87 and are quite famous… Will this work for new artists?
I just realized that the limited editions sold out. All 2500 limited editions…each for $300.
Trent has already made $750,000 dollars already. And all without the RIAA. Nice!
Thanks Xman, occaisonally your posts don’t suck.
Here’s an isohunt link to the whole thing:
Nine_Inch_Nails-Ghosts_I-IV-WEB-2008-pLAN9x
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/36070992/Nine+Inch+Nails?tab=summary
“Also, NIN has been around since ‘87 and are quite famous… Will this work for new artists?”
You’d be more comfortbale walking into a record shop and buying an unknown band’s album for $30 than you would a band you know? Unknown bands have nothing to lose.
OMG. What has got into Nine Inch Nails? This album is only instrumental and to be honest its really bad.
I listened to there last album they release for free on torrent sites and I hasve to say this music really sucks.. very horrible music. They release it for free cause no one would buy it anyways.
some bands crank out a great record in a few days, the 10 week thing does not bother me.
NIN, as homer said who the hell is niiinnnn?? nothing but a whiney pretentious excuse for industrial.. if you want real industrial that is actually fun to listen to try KMFDM,, orgy, deadsy, mdfmk, lords of acid.. hell even ministry is more industrial, though they are quit a crappy band aswell
@24…are you kidding!? Logging your ip, lol. Reznor supports illegal file sharing you idiot. you kill me. stay in the dark kids…
haha i got 1.9mbs for a torrent on this!!!! WOW
“We have SOLD OUT of the 2500 Limited Edition Packages.”
muhahahaha
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
F*** these millionaires.
Trent Reznor is Hollywood scum. On a major label for years and then the career takes a downturn so suddenly he’s into this new distro method. F*** that.
Radiohead too. It’s easy to say the right things when you’ve got some millions in the bank.
F*** all these greedy ego-maniac pop-star f***s. Go make a video for mtv you wa*kers.
Reznor never got the push he deserved from his record label, was screwed over for millions by his management and got where he was today by hard work and interesting music. With regards to him being “hollywood” he’s only ever done music and put together soundtrack albums for stuff that’s on the edge or at least interesting, with the exception of possibly The Fan.
And he’s 20 times better than KMFDM, doin’ it again, LOL! Awful nonsense.
Give the man some Kudos for believing in digital distribution, all you idiot haters are biting the hand that feeds.
See what I did there?
@Mr. X
Is it true that you are no longer editing the TV shows? Or have you retired from RLSLOG.net altogether?
hey bone-heads… NIN’s is just one person not a group.
no, im still doing tv shows
Question if more legitimate releases such as this will change Comcast’s policy with throttling bittorrent upload speeds. Probably not. Damn commies.
Good move by NIN to upload to torrent site but i have to say this album sucks a$$. No offense, maybe it just not my type of music.