Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts 1-4 (Updated)
Forwarded to me from several friend-sources, I learned that Nine Inch Nails released an album (sans record label) on Sunday Monday. Like Radiohead, it’s available in different formats directly from the site. In a twist however, there’s also an ‘official’ BitTorrent release on the Pirate Bay.
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.
Ack. In internet time this is old news: WSJ / NYT / LA Times. I will say: it does come with a nice PDF booklet! Support independent music! Spend $5!
Update 3/13: Total sales for the first week: $1.6 million. No word on costs yet, although I think we’re likely to find out. In related news, TVT files for bankruptcy.
