Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on March 03, 2008Nine 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 $5.”
Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been a supporter of sharing music via BitTorrent, even when it’s copyrighted. He isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too, I’m not gonna say I don’t” he said. Later that year, when OiNK was pulled offline he admitted that he was a member there ,and said , : “If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now.”
The new Nine Inch Nails album including artwork is available for download on the official site, as well as on The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites.
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Epic Win = Trent Reznor!
This will do Nine Inch Nails some good because I’ve never even heard of them so the the publicity will really help them.
I love you Trent even if you are a hippocrate. Just human nature I guess .
This ist great.
But the Website sucks big time… (JS, Paying 0.00$, …)
Trent has seen the future!
Well done, Mr.Reznor!
This is awesome, I am going to check out their new album on my favorite torrent site, even though I don’t know them and haven’t heard them before. Any artist doing this must be pretty awesome! Gratz on ditching the record label NIN!
@2 Are you serious?!!
Its amazing that a great artist understands CDs are old media… this is the way the fans want music.
cant wait for II-IV to be uploaded on a site!! :P
[quote comment="302684"]cant wait for II-IV to be uploaded on a site!! :P[/quote]
WRONG mp3 files suck, flac file aare ok, i rather have a hard copy ( so do many other fans) then bounce it down yourself to a player, real fans want the hard product and this digital download will hold everyone over and get new fans etc etc, but the real fan wants the real deal and packaging, i DO NOT WANT TO SEE CD MEDIA or VINYL get THROWN OUT
TRENT is very smart abbout doing this it is awesoem promotion and the market for cds and vinyl still does exist
Already paid the $5 but ended up downloading it from What.CD as their site is so slow and my download timed out.
wow….cool
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God bless you Trent for your kindness towards humanity
[quote comment="302645"]This will do Nine Inch Nails some good because I’ve never even heard of them so the the publicity will really help them.[/quote]
ah god….
[quote comment="302684"]cant wait for II-IV to be uploaded on a site!! :P[/quote]
Here you go… I-IV (all 32 songs 320kbps for those that don’t mind MP3).
https://cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/nine-inch-nails-ghosts-mp3.html
@7, 14
Just looked at Wikipedia, I see they are more well known than I thought.
Please don’t stab me!
[quote comment="302646"]I love you Trent even if you are a hippocrate. Just human nature I guess .[/quote]
then you must be living in a cave
[quote comment="302646"]I love you Trent even if you are a hippocrate. Just human nature I guess .[/quote]
then you must be living in a cave
I just hope this doesnt end up on itunes like the Flashbulb’s album, that was ghey! Trent better watch for that like!!
website is slooooooooowwww…
[quote comment="302735"][quote comment="302684"]cant wait for II-IV to be uploaded on a site!! :P[/quote]
Here you go… I-IV (all 32 songs 320kbps for those that don’t mind MP3).
https://cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/nine-inch-nails-ghosts-mp3.html/quote
The site! She is no longer public access!
2 Mar 03, 2008 at 09:05 by FragyQuote Fragy
This will do Nine Inch Nails some good because I’ve never even heard of them so the the publicity will really help them.
LOL dude, seriously
[quote comment="302645"]This will do Nine Inch Nails some good because I’ve never even heard of them so the the publicity will really help them.[/quote]
…what?
[quote comment="302789"][quote comment="302645"]This will do Nine Inch Nails some good because I’ve never even heard of them so the the publicity will really help them.[/quote]
…what?[/quote]
It’s called sarcasm you idiot.
[quote comment="302646"]I love you Trent even if you are a hippocrate. Just human nature I guess .[/quote]
Is he a hungry hungry hippocrate? Who promises to do no harm?
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