It is remarkably rare to see your latest iTMS purchase accompanied by a digital booklet in the shape of a PDF file. Remarkable because whereas a physical booklet requires the use of large color-corrected printers, ink, distribution outlets, delivery vehicles (and men), loss in profits and much more, digital booklets require only ‘print to PDF’, and you’re done. Considering that, I do wonder why all my albums don’t come with booklets.
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Holy shit; where did that come from!? A 36-track double-album from Trent? That’s a hell of a way to start the week. A hell of a way.
Did anyone hear about this ahead of time? It’s like the polar opposite of the release-extravaganza that was Year Zero. And judging from what I’ve heard so far, so is the album itself. The album art is different for each track by the way.
If you haven’t already, head on over and sample The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. It’s a pretty solid album, and it’s like getting a quarter of a NIИ album too!
As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. #
He then goes on to exemplify this with the pricing of his own Year Zero album.
The Nine Inch Nails concert next week is coming up fast, and I’m pumped. To get you pumped as well, I figured I’d jazz you up with a little something I got by way of Rassi.
Though known for playing bass for such heavy-hitters as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and A Perfect Circle, Jeordie White’s music endeavors actually began with a band whose main muse was Star Wars. Around the late ’80s in Florida, White and his friends formed the thrash metal band Amboog-a-Lard. Their only album, aptly named A New Hope, focused entirely on the themes and characters of the original trilogy.
Just over a month till the Copenhagen NiN concert!