Kudos to NIN for Releasing New Record Under Creative Commons!

Trent Rezor released his new Nine Inch Nails record, Ghosts, today under a Creative Commons License. Nice!

I honestly haven’t paid much attention to NIN since the early 90’s. I’ve got Pretty Hate Machine, Broken and The Downward Spiral which are each great in their own way, but haven’t bothered to pick up any NIN releases since. But I am downloading the new record as I write this.

Man, the old school record industry is screwed. I don’t think that ANY kids buy CDs anymore. Early adopting forward-thinking artists like Trent Reznor and Radiohead will probably become forever remembered for moves like this and 2007-2008 will go down as the end of the record industry as we’ve always known it.

Rock on.

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