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I'm pumped. My limited Edition (the signed version) from the Ghosts album is due on Friday so I was already excited about that plus GTA4 should hit my doorsteps Tuesday or Wed and now this. sweeet.

Bit late so I'm going to bed, but the three tracks I listened to were quite good.

Wow. That's pretty bad when you have to start giving your music away. "You get what you pay for" rings true yet again.

This is a fantastic album. Ghost was prolly not 4 discs worth of good music and could have been trimmed to perhaps 1..

This is a solid album

May I ask what does the 'former' itunes icon have to do with this news? Is the song available for free on itunes or something?

Great album, kudos to Trent.

I'm listening to it now and it's pretty great (and I'm only 3 songs in ).

I think what NIN is doing in this corrupted industry is great.

-Spenser

Nice I'm thinking of buying a few NIN albums or there HD-DVD's if I can find them cheap (yes I have Blu-Ray to). I like NIN but it's a great way to see if I like there new album or not.

anyone else having trouble getting the download link emailed?

I'm having the same issues with getting the email too =\

Yeah, I'm not getting the email too...you can probably thank stupid digg for overloading their server!

this'll prolly be a nightmare to get at for about a couple days!

well then anyone have a torrent or rapidshare link?

i signed up but dint get my mail yet did anyone get the mail?

The email typically takes between 10-90 minutes to arrive (I sent three, and they arrived at different times). Once you've submitted, don't re-submit, it just makes it take even longer.

For a good quality, free album, waiting an hour isn't such a bad price, really now .

Obviously, check your spam filters as well, or you may be waiting for eternity.

No wonder they gave it out free! Terrible music!

Listen to their Ghosts album, which is the only one I like.

Just listened to the slip, and I guess it's not for me.

before people dismiss nin, go listen to the downward spiral and the fragile. those albums are easily the pinnacle achievements of his career thus far. past few albums have been pretty poor overall.

Downloaded in about 30 secs, listening now! Thank you Trent

I dont know wtf he want... But Thank you (again) Trent

I hope this is better than Ghost. I like NIN but that album was just a bunch of random noises.

It's great that he is offering the music in 24/96. CD quality just doesn't cut it.

I've been a NIN fan since the early 90s, so of course I was psyched about this. I received my ticket immediately after registering and downloaded promptly. I'm digging it so far. I am not a fan of With Teeth, Year Zero (or anything else post Fragile) as much, but this isn't too bad!

The album is so "NIN". Excellent!
Thanks Trent!
I was over at his concert here in Hong Kong last Sept, and he truly ROCKS!

So they've made enough money from their followers over the years to give the illusion they're sticking it to the music industry. Same goes for Radiohead, I think we'd all be doing this if we had the legions of fans that they do.

Bloody awesome. Impressed they offered the 24/96 version too
I ended up getting the flac version off usenet though. don't like torrents. Still signed up though just to add to download numbers for nin

<3 nin always have done and always will do

love the 24/96 version, this is a great way NIN went, I hope more artists start to do this!

Some of the tracks in that album were pretty good, but there were a couple that just plain sucked!

Yeah I honestly find this album pretty weak. Listening to a real NIN album, The Fragile right now .

It's a bit rubbish that pretty much every song starts with a drum beat. It's not the most imaginative way of starting a song.

Look at The Wretched, an incredibly simplistic beat yet so much better than the ones you get in The Slip. Plus with the build up you get from The Frail, leading into The Wretched fantastically, things just sound so much better. Much more tension. With The Slip, I get a very "ejay" feeling where he just turned each layer on after so many bars or whatever.

I agree with undergroove. I have been listening to NIN since the beginning, and I personally think that every album he puts out has something good to offer. I have my favorites, of course (TDS, The Fragile), but I have found over the years that songs that I didn't give much time to initially have grown on me (like The Fragile, Reptile, and With Teeth) and have become some of my favorite work of his, and I fully expect the same thing to happen with this album. In the end, I like all of his work, and I think if he just stuck with the sounds of one or two albums, I would tire of it. I think the fact that he is constantly changing and growing his musical and emotional range is 75% of why I like his music in the first place; the other 25% being his uncanny ability to put into words feelings that I can never really articulate. It makes me feel like I am understood, and I appreciate the fact that for any mood I am in, there is a NIN song or album that perfectly fits. It's like a soundtrack for my life.

What? A bandwagon? Quick!

I followed Trent from the real beginnings too and everyone that is not into standard bleh charts music knows, how influentual he was to other bands in that electro/industrial and industrial-rock genre. If You listen to his '89 album 'Pretty Hate Machine' for example, it was so much ahead of it's time that You can easily still listen to it nowadys and it still sounds fresher and more original than most of the new crap out there, which is mostly clones of things that have been there for ages (especially electronic music).