Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album

An anonymous reader writes "Convinced the current music business infrastructure (requiring artists to rely on labels) is broken, Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, released his band's new album, Ghosts I — IV (Ghosts Volumes One though Four), on Sunday at 6 PM via his official site, marking yet another business experiment for this artist in the changing music market."

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Early Evolutionary Step in Survivals Direction

[flyneye]

Radiohead set a good precident. Good for Trent,he's finally beginning to see the light. He used to be a hardliner for industry methods from all I've heard him say in the past.

          It doesn't take much thought to see that the music industry is dying like a dinosaur on a glacier. It hasn't adapted and because of the consensus of stockholders(who invest in stock in other industries that performs as per the safe usual) is needed for evolution,it will continue to reach for extinction.
          P2P isn't so much the death of the industry as it's own corruption is. The information age is merely hastening it.People and artists are tired of artists being ripped off,chewed up and spat out in the name of marketing convenience.
          Cyber-space has recursively proved what happens in meat-space; sound travels freely and longs to be free like information. You may be able to charge someone for labor done or the right to take up physical space in a venue, but music permeates not unlike the air we breath.That leaves revenues to be made from performance or product packaged for convenience.Slashdot recently featured an article on Kevin Kellys article on the necessary evolutionary changes needed for various I.P. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly08/kelly08_index.html
          Of course with this the middleman (music industry and its mafiaa) is obsolete. This may leave some without a convenient career but in the words of Caddyshacks Judge Smales "Well,Danny,the world needs ditchdiggers too". Obviously,I have little sympathy for an industry that has smothered more talent than it's featured and force fed the public crap(think disco era assembly line production amongst even more modern crimes)in the name of marketing convenience for maximum profit.
          Music is a living,breathing entity that manifests itself through musicians. As such it must honor the physical laws that govern us all: ADAPT OR DIE,being the relevant one in this case. It has, the music industry being a synthetic entity manifested by the ever shifting laws of commerce hasn't. Therefore it is like a parasite that music has evolved an immunity to ,and robbed of its food source is dying. Oh well.