Tag: NINE INCH NAILS

Trent Reznor, the man behind industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails (NIN), is no straggler when it comes to embracing the Internet-age. Way back in 2007, months before Radiohead offered its album 'In Rainbows' for free via download, Trent straight-up told fans at a show in Australia to steal music via peer-to-peer sites. Several months later, in 2008, he gave away the first part of NIN's four-part ...

Some musicians have criticized Twitter for being the "highest form of narcissism," but, over the last few weeks, Twitter users have given thousands of reasons to prove that the microblogging community will overwhelmingly come to the aid of others. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, with the help of the band Jane's Addiction, has managed to raise $850,000, thanks in part to Twitter, for a fan in ...

Trent Reznor and his conspirators in Nine Inch Nails are hard at work trying to destroy the music industry as we know it. Following a year in which Reznor told his fans to steal his music and then produced an album for Saul Williams that he gave away for free, the dark Prince (as in Prince, the artist, not Satan) has cobbled together a new album of material and is offering the first installment ...

With the successful release of Radiohead's 7th album, 'In Rainbows,' today, an experiment in treating fans like fans and not just empty-headed money dispensers has begun. We thought we'd take a look at the other artists going the label-free route. British pop rock stars and Beatles worshipers Oasis recently parted ways with their record label. The band has already announced that their next ...

Perennial geek idol and gloomy music star Trent Reznor is not making any friends at his record label, Universal Media Group (UMG). At a concert Sunday night in Sydney, Reznor let loose on the music industry. Commenting on the fact that CD prices had not dropped after an outburst in May (see below), he asked, "Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. ...