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Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Deluxe Edition In Under Two Days ($750K on that option alone)
- iamelgringo 19y agoSomeone needs to make it easy for artists to do this. They want it, and users want it.
- nickb 19y agoDownloading is easy, it's hard to create the demand and traffic for a particular artist. You're back to square one since to do that, you should have a large music site so you get a lot of traffic and can promote various artists. And then you're in competition with iTunes and Amazon.
- tim2 19y agoSure, I'll say it: If you're saying that publicity is free, you're still wrong. This isn't even a very new model. People have been getting music for free through radio for a long time. What labels have done so far is little more than changing the transport from radio to web.
- redorb 19y ago^ He dropped his label and is now doing his own. Also it is revolutionary to sell direct.
- tim2 19y agoI guarantee you that there have been artists selling some music directly to customers ever since people have been able to record music. No, even before that. This guy used the labels and middlemen extensively already, so he is really a terrible example of this revolution.
- henning 19y agoI bought NIN's album for $5 on Amazon to support Trent for distributing his work in an enlightened manner. $5 for 3 dozen CD-quality tracks, DRM-free, off Amazon. Download was as fast as iTunes or Steam or any other respectable online download service. I made the decision to do that after downloading the first part of it for free on the Pirate Bay. It was the first time I bought music fair and square in about 10 years.
- ArcticCelt 19y agoI have very fond memories of my sumer of 1991 listening to [Pretty Hate Machine]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Hate_Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Hate_Machine ) while doing a road trip that ended with an unplanned stop at washington's [Lollapalooza 1991 ]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollapalooza ) with NIN playing. To see that particular band be one of the rare ones to act like "real" artists make me happy.
- Xichekolas 19y agoFYI, you can get the first nine tracks for free on the official website. No need to hit the Pirate Bay. http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options I too paid the $5 for the whole thing, partly to support the distribution model, partly because of the 36 kickass tracks. One of my friends bought the $300 set. I'm planning to experience that vicariously through him.
- henning 19y agoThe downloads on their site were down on Monday due to overwhelming demand.
- Xichekolas 19y agoYeah that was kinda sad... it's the reason I ended up just using the Amazon link... thankfully I don't really care about the FLAC versions.
- e40 19y agoI wish all artists would put up a website with a paypal tip jar. I'd download the music for free then tip them $3 to $5 for each album downloaded. That would circumvent the label, since it wasn't directly a fee related to the album. It's just a tip from me to them. I don't know if the typical record company contract would allow this, though.