I haven’t listened to Nine Inch Nails in some years now, but I can say I’ve always appreciated them – especially how vocal Trent Reznor is about how the recording industry has changed over the years.
According to a post by him on the official website, Nine Inch Nails got dropped by their recording company Universal. Reznor has been telling fans to download and copy his music for years, and it seems that Universal finally got fed up with it. Good for them – it’s exciting to see big names in music as free agents – it’s the big guys that will ultimately effect a change in the way of things.
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after reading this comic, FROST IS BACK?!
On a similar track: Radiohead’s new album with a voluntary donation payment.
I may be ignorant, especially as I’m not a fan; but, I thought NIN was a one-man band OF this Reznor fellow :s
NIN consists of one core member, and you’re right enough, it’s Trent Reznor. His live act, which most people know as NIN, consists of a rota of musicians which changes almost every tour. Check Wiki, it lists each “Era” of NIN.
Basically I believe Reznor once said that his Studio work was intended to be very different to live performance, and feels a whole group reinterpreting his work to be one of the best ways to get that across.
Or something along those lines.
As for the main topic, it’s good to see NIN standing up for that, as well as the new Radiohead album being mentioned a couple of comments up. In general really loving the direction that NIN are taking though. The ARG for Year_Zero was nothing short of incredible, and the album itself is an interesting evolution in the NIN sound.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is an ARG?
ARG is an Alternate Reality Game. It was pretty funny since the Halo ARG kicked off about the same time as Year Zero and there were some wires getting crossed between the two.
That’s so strange. i was listening to NIN just as I read this. haha. well that’s cool =]
Hahaha. I find that wonderfully awesome. I expect great things to come from this for NIN, and hope that if they make it work for them, more big names will tell the RIAA to bugger off.
Best thing for me (as a fan) about NIN is the release of some multitrack packages for a few songs for you to remix. That’s awesome and brought me some long and dark nights…
And working out on my ergometer watching NIN life DVDs is another story.
you mark my words, there will be many more to follow on this path, as artists start begin to more widely recognize the rapidly approaching obsolescence of conventional media industries.
I am encouraged that one of the major recording companies, EMI, may be changing their “tune” on handling artists – they may move toward smaller up-front investments or advances, in return to taking less of the artist’s downstream profits. In essence, this reduces the “success penalty” that popular artists pay when their albums become perennials. For groups like NIN and Radiohead, it would mean more long-haul income and less pressure to have every new album outsell the last; for the record company, more incentive to expand the ways the music is available since they are not looking for an immediate return on a huge investment. It may also encourage a broadening of artists because of a de-empphasis on blockbuster hits.
Thats great news! Maybe now someone who actually cares more about the music than the money will actually become something truly great.
Have you not been paying attention? NIN is already truly great.
I more of a Dethklok fan but NIN is great too.