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Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

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Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

RateMyWalrus.com — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:41:40 -0000

These guys are great need some of their stuff on my site.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

YO — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:57:26 -0000

HEY have u guys download the "Cry Chris Crocker" song on iTunes.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

John — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:36:37 -0000

Many bands probably couldn't expect success by copying NIN or Radiohead distribution methods but that doesn't mean that the label-free approach can't work for them. It's a matter of bands finding what will work for themselves and their fans.
The Red Paintings, for example, have recorded their debut album with no label involvement, funded solely with fan donations.
It's a pretty interesting read if you have a minute:
http://digg.com/music/Indie...

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Justin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:41:54 -0000

Hyjak, you're 100% wrong, my friend. Google Jamendo and experience the pleasure of free (as in freedom) music.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

DJ Hyjak — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:36:24 -0000

To bad this option only works for mega acts like NIN and Radiohead. I wanna see how this will work for a blues, country, or gospel act. Im not saying that this wont work for them it's just not the complete answer for the industry.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

paranoiaparadise — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:50:53 -0000

cool every band should do this and there wouldn't be any piracy anymore;-)
LÃ©onie.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Llumy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:46:46 -0000

So I am all for this - even ordered the CD option. However, the "Shipping & Handling" is still to expensive. $6.99 USD to ship to a U.S. address for a $5.00 CD (first $5 is the cost of the digital downloads). They need to get that under control too.

I know many people will say don't get the CD, but I am a fan of owning the CD still. It let's me have high quality in the format I need it now, and in the future. I would rip everything to wave and convert as I need.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Mirko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:27:08 -0000

That pretty much echoes my thoughts on this matter.

I also find it interesting how music discovery and marketing is completely changing. As far as I am aware, there has been no marketing or even formal announcement for the Ghosts album, so NIN is relying purely on viral marketing through blogs, Twitter, etc.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Solo Programmer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:58:47 -0000

Great move but they might want to upgrade to the "gold" hosting plan. So far I've attempted to download the "free" version several times and either the page isn't available or the download dies partway through. Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced their webhosting to Twitter.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Apocalypso Facto — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:51:42 -0000

Radiohead was just the beginning. Now more and more artists will take this path, undoubtedly, as we continue to listen to the long distant rumble of traditional, mainstream record labels collapsing unto themselves...

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

The Ad Mad — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:28:30 -0000

Go Trent go!

This is an awesome band...pretty much like Radiohead in many ways, and I'm not surprised they did this. Really awesome.

BWT, get the album With Teeth...not nearly as dark as Downward Spiral,it's one of the most addictive Cds I've ever heard

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Kristin K — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:38:57 -0000

Not a huge NIN fan myself, but for $5, I may check it out to support their endeavour of putting their music on the Internet...

...I can't even remember the last CD I purchased from a store.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Independent — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:17:54 -0000

Yup, what could be better than free publicity? The musicians have always made better margins on things like concert tickets and tshirt sales, recording profits tend to just go to the record label. I hope the business model of free music works out for these guys trying it...I think it will.

Re: Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

AllenHark — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:40:05 -0000

I love seeing musicians embracing new ways to distribute their work, and cutting out the middleman (RIAA). Let's face it the CD/Album business model is dead. It's time musicians used their music online to drive ticket and merchandise sales and to keep a bigger piece of the profit for themselves.