Trent Reznor has just announced another set of free MP3s that have been released for free download.
They have been released ahead of the final NIN tour of the USA with support from Janes Addiction and StreetSweeper and the download includes 2 tracks from each artist.
You Can get the files in 320kbps MP3, FLAC, M4A and WAV formats from ninja2009.com.
Enjoy 
So much blood for such a tiny little hole, Problems do have solutions.
(Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral)
I couldn’t think of a more fitting start to this post about the demise of Nine Inch Nails.
Trent Reznor, front man of NIN has announced that the entity (Its hard to call one man a band) will be no more at the end of this tour. NIN have been around for the past twenty years and in that time have influenced the sounds of many people.
Even the likes of Johnny Cash covered Hurt before his death. A song that is an eeire fit with the life Johnny had lived.
If you somehow managed to miss the music of NIN go visit the NIN site and download some. The follow can be got for free.
The final leg of the tour is in the USA and will have Janes Addiction appearing. A fitting end as they were the band that helped launch Trent into the lime light all those years ago.
NIN… the passing of an era.
I know that is a contradiction, how can something that is available for free make more money than something that is only available in a paid for format?
According to Amazon, this is exactly what happened. The Best selling album for 2008 on their MP3 site was Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails. An album released under the Creative Commons licence, hence free to share. The band even provides the seed for Ghosts I on The Pirate Bay site.
This raises the question, given that the album is effectively free why would anyone pay for it?
Trent Reznor, Mr NIN, is no fan of the record industry and after the famous Steal It speech split with his record company to go it alone. All releases since have been effectivly free yet people still pay because they know any money they pay goes directly to the band, not to line the pockets of fat cats in some faceless record company.
This just shows people are willing to support things they believe in or care about.
This latest blow to the record industry must have left many VERY scared. The ONLY thing record companies actually do is find new bands then publish their music. Both tasks that are now back in the hands of the artists. Will 2009 be the year we see the big 4 ask for a bail out or will Britney and the other plasic made up bands support them for another year?
