Praise for NIN

Thank you Nine Inch Nails for having the guts to explore new ways of working with technology and not against it. I know other bands have done it / are doing it, I just happen to be a fan NIN and I think they did a nice job. Licensed under Creative Commons and available at Ghosts(dot)nin(dot)com. I am particularly impressed with the options to purchase. In this release there are 36 songs over 4 volumes - hence Ghosts I-IV. The cool thing is the entire first 9 songs (or vol. 1) are free to download. If you like that you can pay $5 to get the other 3 volumes or 27 songs. For the mega fan there are more expensive options that include the vinyl release and autographs.

Another point of getting it right was the free download. Often a site will claim that it is free then ask for a valid credit card?! If I have to go through the pain of having a credit card with me and entered - I damn well might as well use it! Not free any more! So kudos to NIN for truly offering a free download sans credit card!

** at the time of writing this I had began download of the free content only to have the connection dropped, over, and over. so apparently they are getting slammed pretty hard!

I am glad that so many people are embracing the bands that are trying to make a change.


UPDATE: Great blog article from WSJ echoing my thoughts in a more WSJ way!