New NIN
So a new NIN album came out today! It’s following in the footsteps of the last Radiohead release.
Trent Reznor explains, “I’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn’t have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective – dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I’m very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts.”
FREE DOWNLOAD
Ghosts I – The first 9 tracks from the Ghosts I-IV collection available as
high-quality DRM-free MP3s (320kbps LAME encoded, fully tagged) including complete 40 page PDF. Also includes the digital extras pack – various
wallpapers, icons, and graphics tools for your computer, website, profile, etc.
$5 DOWNLOAD
Ghosts I-IV – All 36 tracks in a variety of DRM-free digital formats (320
kbps LAME encoded, fully tagged; FLAC Lossless; Apple Lossless) including a 40
page PDF. Also includes the digital extras pack – various wallpapers, icons,
and graphics tools for your computer, website, profile, etc.
This version is also available from the Amazon MP3 store.
$10 2XCD SET
Ghosts I-IV – 2 audio CDs in a gatefold digipak package with a 16-page
booklet. To be shipped TBD. Includes immediate DRM-free download of the
entire collection in same choice of formats as $5 Download option. Download
will include the 40 page PDF and the digital extras pack – various wallpapers,
cons, and graphics tools for your computer, website, profile, etc.
This configuration will be released to retail in North America (April 8), Australia (April 5), the UK (April 8), Japan (April 5) and most European territories (April 8).
$75 LIMITED EDITION DELUXE PACKAGE
Ghosts I-IV – Hardcover book holding 2 audio CDs, 1 data DVD of all 36
tracks in multi-track format (in .wav files readable by Mac and Windows), and
Blu-ray disc featuring stereo recordings in high-definition 24 bit 96Khz with
exclusive slide show. Includes immediate DRM-free download of the entire
collection in all formats and with all extras mentioned above. Also includes
48-page hardcover of photographs by Phillip Graybill and Rob Sheridan.
Discs and art book both housed in fabric slipcover.
$300 ULTRA-DELUXE LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
Ghosts I-IV – Contains all elements from deluxe package, along with
exclusive 4XLP 180-gram vinyl set, and two limited edition Giclee prints
available exclusively in this package. Disc book, art book, and prints are
all housed in a fabric slipcover. 4XLP vinyl set comes in its own fabric
slipcover. INCLUDES immediate DRM-free download of the entire collection in
all formats and with all extras mentioned above. LIMITED TO 2500 PIECES,
NUMBERED AND PERSONALLY SIGNED BY TRENT REZNOR.
Comments
HOLY FUCK! WOW! This is awesome!
This sounds like exactly what I’ve been wanting Trent to do for years: follow up on his amazing Still album of dreamy, atmospheric acoustic tracks. I can’t wait to hear it.
I’m getting the deluxe. Partly because everything album-packaging wise Trent has done recently has been awesome. Partly because I expect to love it. And partly because I really want to support this sort of marketing and distribution method. Yay!
Holy fuck, Adrian Belew is back!
I just listened to three or four tracks while on the site, they are sooo much better than the last two albums!
Three tracks in to the album and it’s easily the best thing since The Fragile/Still.
Someone help me out, I try downloading the files and keep getting an error when I try to open it:
Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive.
If you downloaded this file, try downloading this file again.
Won’t work no matter how many times I try.
Trent Reznor said: “I’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn’t have made sense until this point."
Why wouldn’t it have made sense? are the songs about things that happened in the news recently?
John which deluxe are you getting sucked into buying? there are two
The $75 one.
I think it wouldn’t have made sense, Kev, economically, because of his contract to record companies. After his last album, he owed the record company one more album, but he made a bunch of statements in the press and at shows that the record company didn’t like and they freed him from his contract. I’m assuming there was no way a big label would have put out a four disc instrumental collection, or that if he’d made it on their dime, they’d’ve shelved it before spending the money to print it.
Now he’s releasing albums digitally online and he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
so it wouldn’t have made cents not sense
BOOOOOOOO!
what happened to my question?
What question?
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. We encourage you to share the music of Ghosts I with your friends, post it on your website, play it on your podcast, use it for video projects, etc. It’s licensed for all non-commercial use under Creative Commons.
How incredibly cool is that?!
thats great but hes already ‘made’ he no longer needs to make a payday. lets see Smoosh put an album out like that….. after they get done their shift at dairy queen.
Smoosh is on the moon. THey can’t make anymore music.
I will probably buy the $10 set. I don’t need the DVD with uncompressed wavs, or a Blu-Ray disc.
i only enjoyed half of with teeth and non of whatever the last one was, but i do like me some good instrumental music on occassion. actually his instrumentals off the fragile are some of my favorite songs of his.
i might pick this up. i want to check out the blu ray disc, but $75 is way to much for a cd dvd set. if it was somewhere around $40 i wouldve been ok with it.
and the music is free for all non commercial use? like i could use these albums to score zombieszombies! ?
INDEED, DERRICK! And so you must.
and i shall!
ill hit this up when i get home, probably just go with the free version for now. i want to wait until someone with the blu ray is able to convince me to get it.
Well, I’ll have it. But I don’t have a bluray player yet.
i wont have the disc, but have a blu ray player.
hmmm…. with our powers combined, we could experience this disc…..
the creative commons thing is amazing. it allows me to forgive the last photo i saw of him that made him look like he was on an episode of Friends:
what? you dont remember the episode where trent dated monica, or ross, or blonde girl #2?
Anyone else listened to this yet? I’m loving it.
is it a little more old school and feature less dancy bleeps and bloops?
It sounds like Still. Did you get that album? There are beats, but there are also tracks that are entirely piano/xylophone. It’s pretty varied and awesome.
what was still? i dont remember hearing about that.
It was a bonus LP that came with All That Could Have Been (the fragile live album/dvd). It was a collection of acoustic versions of old songs or new instrumental/atmospheric tracks.
Oddly enough, I’ve heard three songs now that sounded strikingly like music from Super Metroid.
ah, ok. ive heard of that, didnt know it had its own title though.
hmmm, ill have to get that some how as well. i remember trying to find it a few years back but it went out of print fast.
It’s on my server that I posted a while back.
I guess I’m the only one having this problem?
downloading the files from the FTP? Or from NIN?
I bought it online and am having trouble downloading it. The ZIP download keeps crapping out on me.
i’m getting the $10 one – the physical discs should be cool to have. i love what he’s doing with this, especially with the ability to use it on personal projects. i wonder how many will pop up over the next few months…
i have gotten it…. somehow….. but i intend on buying the cd version should my ears deem it good.
the site mentions that he will be making more volumes, and also says something about an interesting partnership of the music with something else.
maybe he is referring to zombies! zombies! zombies!
if anyone needs me, ill be waiting by the phone.
I had trouble downloading it from NIN. I bought the $10 2 disc set (well, $16.99 with s&h). And I’m having the same problem as it looks like Reggie is having.
Try the zip file I put on the FTP, guys. Maybe that’ll work for you.
yep, i needed to use the FTP link to get a working copy. thanks, john. also, this is fantastic stuff – i can definitely see a lot of these tracks being used all over the place for different ideas. this is the kind of thing i like to listen to when i paint/write/etc.
Thanks John, got it all now, appreciate it.
I’m hearing the Super Metroid as well, but I also hear some songs that can be SimCity songs.
i dont think i could use this as a whole. some of the more intense or creepy songs will work great for steelcannonmovie.com….. i mean zombies! zombies! zombies!.
especially the stuff in ghosts 4.
hahaha, good call, Reg!
So is anyone else sort of in shock over how good this is? I mean, I’d all but written NIN off after the last two albums. And I really wanted to like them. NIN are one of those bands I have an emotional investment in. I want them to win. But lately, it’s felt like rooting for a Phillies.
But the year zero remixed was pretty good and then this… Way to make the playoffs, Trent!
like i think i mentioned before, i was never a Nine Inch Nails fan. heard them through friends, owned an album or two, but never really followed them.
this album is awesome. however, i LOVE ambient stuff, so maybe that’s why i’m so swayed. i think i’m also very attracted to how he released it and left it open for anyone to do just about anything with it. that’s huge.
i just wish some of the tracks lasted a little longer – my only gripe. wanting more is a good gripe, though.
Mandy, two things you might dig that you should grab on my server: Harold Budd and Fennesz