Nine 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
View: Full Article @ Torrent Freak
Music: Ghosts - Nine Inch Nails (Torrent link) 64.2 MB
“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
View: Full Article @ Torrent Freak Music: Ghosts - Nine Inch Nails (Torrent link) 64.2 MB
If you like it please support the artist by purchasing it.
Last edited by Dane2003 on 04 Mar 2008 - 13:36
http://ghosts.nin.com
Reznor will kick 'em all in the balls.
Any other bands doing this? (aside from Radiohead and The Crimea (http://www.thecrimea.net, in case you didn't know))
Pretty Good album
http://niggytardust.com/
you get the entire album for fee in 192KB mp3 or something or pay $5 or so for it in higher bitrate/other formats such as flacc
good for all music fans out there. This is the way music should be released.
good for all music fans out there. This is the way music should be released.
They won't be able too if they're not under contract with a label that is under the RIAA controll.
Now we need the pron industry to share some goodies on bt.
NiN has always been a very talented group of musicians, so this should be very interesting to follow as it evolves.
--- Update
Just signed up for the free download on their site and the transfer rate is slow. If you're going to check it out, sign up on their web site and provide your email (it's the least you can do for the free download) and then use the torrent to download for a much faster rate: " target="_blank">Pirate Bay
I'm listening to it now and it's really good. I definitely recommend checking it out and at least doing the $5 download option to support the band. That's what I'm doing now.
Last edited by Glen on 04 Mar 2008 - 23:59
300 * 2500 = $750,000
i think they'll be able to call this a success
No offense but it sounds like a bad movie soundtrack.
Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!
Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.