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Nine Inch Nails is offering up 9 tracks from the new Ghosts I-IV album for free. There are also several packages available besides the nine DRM-free MP3s. For $5 you get all 36 tracks in a variety of formats, $10 gets you two discs and the downloads. If neither of those are fancy enough, you can get a $300 version that comes with lots of stuff including vinyl records autographed by Trent Reznor.

Your download will be a zip file. The zip file contains all the music, the PDF, and some extra content. If you are using Mac OS X or Windows XP/Vista, just double-click on the zip file once it's downloaded, and it will open the folder with your content.
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Weird, not letting me get in to the store section to get the tracks.
 
I placed a pre-order but the site bugged out and wouldn't let me download the files (it says I've reached my download limit). The site appears to be under heavy load, so that is likely why. Everyone who wants a full download may want to wait for the site to start responding properly.
 
Don't crap the thread. The store is taking an unusually long time to load. I had to back and go forward a few times and it took about 2-3 minutes to finally load.
 
I haven't really listened to NiN in a long time, but I think it's great that they're doing this. I think my wife is still into them, so she'll be happy to hear about it.
 
Hmm.. I think I will download them free-- if I like it, I'll fork over $10 for the CDs.. Jeez why didn't they think of this before? :p
 
The Deluxe set is reaaally nice. Too bad they haven't put out a decent album in 13 years.
 
Checked it out, too bad its complete crap. No volcals what so ever.

Nice idea, poor product.
 
Well, I am a NIN fan from way back, but since my download just failed and it is a "one time" code I am not going to waste any more time with it, especially since most of Trent's music has been shit since Pretty Hate Machine. Sigh.
 
Yay for everyone who thinks Trents music has been shit crapping on the thread. :rolleyes:

Anyways, I purchased the $75 set but the d/l link won't work. Need more power, Scotty! I guess I should've waited a few more hours, was just hoping to listen to it while working today.
 
xappie said:
Yay for everyone who thinks Trents music has been shit crapping on the thread. :rolleyes:

Anyways, I purchased the $75 set but the d/l link won't work. Need more power, Scotty! I guess I should've waited a few more hours, was just hoping to listen to it while working today.
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I'm a huge and I mean huge NIN fan. The old NIN though. Anything past Broken is hit or miss for me. Year Zero I just didn't care for just because it seemed Trent was buying into the whole conspiracy theory concept. Another industrial god did the same, Al Jorgenson (spelling) from Ministry. I kinda lost respect for someone so against the following of what others said only to follow just another crap load of dogma those theorist like to come up with.
 
For those having download problems, I just found this. Looks like they'll give everybody another shot once the server issues are done with.
 
Well I wouldn't say all there stuff released in the last few years were shit, I liked "With Teeth" and "Year Zero" was very hit and miss but "Me, I'm Not" on Year Zero was one of Trent's best tracks to date imo.
 
Whether you like his music or not, you have to give him kudos for going down this road. I do hope this works out for him, so that the labels see that there is a viable digital distribution method out there that doesn't include DRM...
 
I find it quite funny that "old school" nin fans only liked his music when he was all fucked up on drugs and alcohol. He got sober, so his music changed.

But meh, whatever floats your boat.
 
Deviationer said:
I find it quite funny that "old school" nin fans only liked his music when he was all fucked up on drugs and alcohol. He got sober, so his music changed.

But meh, whatever floats your boat.
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QFT. Also, would anyone really take him seriously if he was still making the exact same music 20 years later? Music, like everything, needs to evolve. If you listen to PHM now, it's actually VERY 80's and would sound weird as new album now.
 
Personally, I like both old NIN/Trent and new NIN/Trent. When you get to listen to a great artists who evolves or matures, if you will; I think that's something special. I guess in a more new-age comparison, the same can be said of Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters. Regardless, it's nice to see that Trent is continuing the free music trend, persay.
 
Yikes. The Saul Williams release didn't go that smoothly, but this is just painful.

I applaud the guy for trying, though. That I do.
 
Nice, hope this works out for NIN. The folks whining about how they suck and that Trent hasn't made good music since [favourite_album] has me lollin' over here.
 
You have to listen to his more recent albums a couple times to get used to them. Trent even mentioned this somewhere. When Year Zero came out, I really hated it and I even remember saying to myself "There is no way I'm buying this!". But after listening to it about 5 or so more times online, I began to like it. Now it's my second favorite album.

As for this instrumental only thing, I haven't listened to it yet. I thought (and was hoping) that trent was going to do a followup to Year Zero.
 
I think a followup is still in the works. This one is more of an experimental deal. They just jumped in and started making music, every thing got used in some way and put into the resulting music. I think it's an interesting idea.
 
If you liked Still, I think you'll generally like this. I somehow managed to get through the purchasing options and snagged myself the $75 Deluxe set. Unfortunately, these aren't to begin shipping until ~May 1.
 
If you guys want to download the free version to listen and check it out, Trent posted the Torrents on all the major sites. Piratebay etc. has it and its super fast to download.

Its all instrumental stuff but its a good listen.
 
darkangel74 said:
I'm a huge and I mean huge NIN fan. The old NIN though. Anything past Broken is hit or miss for me. Year Zero I just didn't care for just because it seemed Trent was buying into the whole conspiracy theory concept. Another industrial god did the same, Al Jorgenson (spelling) from Ministry. I kinda lost respect for someone so against the following of what others said only to follow just another crap load of dogma those theorist like to come up with.
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God I love my Ministry....from Filth Pig back. Ah the memories.....was the last really good moshpit I was in about 10 years ago.
 
Quote Trent Reznor:

I remember last time I was here, I was doing a lot of complaining about the ridiculous prices of CDs down here. And the story got picked up and got carried all around the world and now my record label all around the world hates me because I yelled back at them - called them out for being greedy f---ing assholes

I didn’t get the chance to check – has the price come down at all?

[Crowd yells “NO”]

I see a no, a no, a no, a no…anybody…has anyone seen the price come down?

[Crowd yells “NO” again]

Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’. Because one way or another, these motherf---ers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that’s not right.
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Standing true to his words he is fighting piracy by making music accessible again.
 
To bad the NIN site took a big dump. I hope they get it back up so I can download it. I'm with you there Kyle. It has been such a long time ago that I went to a Ministry concert in Chicago, and get my body beat in the Pit. Good times.:D
 
Finally got the email sent...

Anyone know what bitrate these are? Atleast 192... ?
 
Wow, people will find something negative even in the best of news.

NIN: We're going to give this one for free if you want it.
Negative Nancies: Screw you! You suck!
 
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