Nine Inch Nails give new album away free

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Nine Inch Nails follow Radiohead with free album download

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Bands new album is available online now

Nine Inch Nails (http://www.nme.com/artists/nine-inch-nails) are following in Radiohead (http://www.nme.com/artists/radiohead)’s footsteps by releasing their new album 'Ghosts I-IV' as a free download via their own website from today (March 3).

The 36-track instrumental record, recorded in a ten-week period last year, is available in a variety of download options and as a physical copy.

The options are a free download featuring the collection's first nine tracks, a $5 download featuring the whole album, a $10 two-CD set (either via the website or in shops from April 5) and a $75 deluxe edition, including a hardcover book and a data DVD and a Blu-ray disc featuring high definition recordings and a slide show.

There is also an “ultra deluxe” limited edition version for £300 which features the same items as the $75 version, but also signed and numbered by Trent Reznor.

Full details and the free download are on NIN.com (http://www.nin.com/) now.

Speaking of the release and the artwork, Reznor explained: “It’s the result of working from a visual perspective – coating imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams.”

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seems like everyone is giving away albums for free these days, radiohead, charlatans, nine inch nails, ray davies, and even lenny kravitz giving half his album away free

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http://store.nin.com/sdl/nin_ghosts_I_mp3.zip

that's the official and legit link to the free download on www.nin.com

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Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Album While Offering Free Music Online
By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/byline/206901933/26602782/SIG=12doeefag/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=H4CCOM3O03FS4QSNDLQCKH0CJUNN2JVN) Wed Mar 5, 3:35 PM ET


Nine Inch Nails (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/206901933/26602782/SIG=10lh57lkn/*http://www.nin.com/) front man Trent Reznor sold out of a $300 edition of the band's new album after offering free music online.

Fans bought 2,500 copies of the ultradeluxe edition of the new album, Ghosts I-IV, offered at the same time as free tracks and other music packages that begin as low as $5. The most expensive option sold out in three days, and activity on the Web site crashed its servers.

Reznor gave fans the choice of downloading four digital albums for $5, downloading the same package and receiving a CD for $10, downloading some of the songs free, or buying various pricier packages with additional content and features, like video and slide shows, starting at $75.

He also licensed Ghosts I-IV, a 36-song production, under a Creative Commons license that allows fans to copy and distribute the music they buy.
Reznor's pricing scheme appears more successful than Radiohead's attempt last year to sell albums while allowing fans to pick their price.

Radiohead's In Rainbows lacked copyright protection, and the band never released statistics on the number of downloads or the prices paid. However, Radiohead did stop offering the album free after the CD went on sale in stores, leading many to speculate that the promotion failed to harness profits.

ComScore reported that 63% of music fans who downloaded the album did not pay at all and those who paid spent an average of $6. Since nonpaying fans outnumbered those who paid for the album, the average price for all the downloads sold sank to about $2.25, according to ComScore's figures.

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Nine Inch Nails (http://www.nme.com/artists/nine-inch-nails) mainman Trent Reznor (http://www.nme.com/artists/trent-reznor) has criticised the unconventional release of Radiohead (http://www.nme.com/artists/radiohead)’s album 'In Rainbows', dubbing it "insincere."

Reznor’s comments come a week Nine Inch Nails released a set of instrumental tracks 'Ghosts I-IV' that included a similar free download option (http://www.nme.com/news/nine-inch-nails/34824).

Yesterday (March 12), the band’s website had processed 781,917 transactions, and had sold out of the 2,500 box sets being sold for $300, according to the Chicago Tribune.

However, speaking on the subject of Radiohead (http://www.nme.com/artists/radiohead) to American TV Network ABC, Reznor said: "What they (Radiohead (http://www.nme.com/artists/radiohead)) did was a cool thing. But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream. There's nothing wrong with that - I but don't see that as a big revolution [that] they're kinda getting credit for."

Reznor added: "What they did right: they surprised the world with a new record, and it was available digitally first. What they did wrong: by making it such a low quality thing, not even including artwork ... to me that feels insincere."

Unlike Radiohead (http://www.nme.com/artists/radiohead) after the release of ‘In Rainbows’, Reznor decided to make his album's sales figures public.

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