“Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free”
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-reznor-makes-750000-even-when-the-music-is-free.html
Trent seems to be doing better now. And really!? Who would shell out a grand on that? IT seems really nice and everything, but I would never pay that. 300, by itself is pushing it.
They’re asking for $2,000. javascript:%20addTag(‘shocked’) Honestly, I’m sure those things are going to be worth a ton of cash so I rather wish I’d made the $300 investment.[shocked][shocked]
They’re asking for $2,000. javascript:%20addTag(‘shocked’) Honestly, I’m sure those things are going to be worth a ton of cash so I rather wish I’d made the $300 investment.[shocked][shocked]
Yeah Trent sux but he’s good for a quick investment!
I didn’t even think about ebaying the $300 one. I ordered the $75 one before I realized a $10 version will be available. If it’s not super spectacular, I may auction the deluxe and get the regular.
As for the album itself - some of it reminds me of Quake, or Still, or The Fragile, or Year Zero. But overall, it reminds me of a mix-tape I made to listen to in the car of song ideas I was working on at the time. Just random fragments - some were pretty cool, but all were half-baked. I wish Trent had left these in the oven for 6 more months and come out a single album of finished songs instead.
Got the 36 songs. Apart from a few tracks (about 6 or 7 in total) its not very good. Certainly not as interesting as Still and not worth paying any more than $5 for. [mad][mad][mad] I think Trent is falling into a similar trap as Jourgensen and others have done before by trying to release new music quite quickly i.e. something new every year. That hasnt worked since the 1970s. Its better to wait a few years for new releases that are worthy instead of releasing everything youre rolling out when you get down to writing some tunes.
I’m liking it quite a bit. Been listening to primarily “Ghosts III” at the moment. It works well sectioning it into four smaller albums. All 36 tracks is a little overwhelming.
Got the 36 songs. Apart from a few tracks (about 6 or 7 in total) its not very good. Certainly not as interesting as Still and not worth paying any more than $5 for. [mad][mad][mad] I think Trent is falling into a similar trap as Jourgensen and others have done before by trying to release new music quite quickly i.e. something new every year. That hasnt worked since the 1970s. Its better to wait a few years for new releases that are worthy instead of releasing everything youre rolling out when you get down to writing some tunes.
I don’t agree at all. I quite like it all. It’s all very reminiscent of everything from Fragile up to now. And I would pay more than 5 bucks for it. I like the fact that Trent is being more prolific and getting things out there. I know that a lot of bands screw this up but NIN and Jesu are two bands that can pull out as much as they want and never seem to let me down.
Peace!
Krowe
“24 Ghosts III” is frickin’ amazing! Sounds like what Frontline Assembly would sound like if they were good.
it’s very interesting how this new “indie” status and online releases will develop themselves in the future and how fast/often will he be releasing new stuff.
i think he’s still testing this new way of releasing music that he started with that saul williams’ niggy tardust album.
apparently all 2500 copies of $300 ultra deluxe editions were sold out already very very fast.
I have listened to this daily and although there are about 6 tracks that suck, the remaining ones are great.
ghosts 1 tracks 11+12 = WIN
ghosts 4 track 30 amazing
I could go on but won’t, I’m enjoying the majority of this rollercoaster to the ears [cool]
There’s a lot that reminds me of Broken, even PHM to a certain extent and a HELL of a lot of Fragile/ Year Zero
it’s all good though.
I was wondering if anyone had played these tracks using a spectrogram, reason being could there be any images like the Hand in Year Zero?
Just thinking aloud, as title is ghosts so imagery could be hidden…part of the YZ ARG or separate? I dunno, poses questions though…
Great instrumentals though and I have waay too much time on my hands clearly [:P]
Would be pretty interesting with the secret images and such like YZ, and I surely wouldn’t dismiss it as a possibility. I wouldn’t be surprised at least. And I doubt there’s going to be another YZ, I think he’d rather move on now. Either way, his newer stuff post-with teeth is some really great stuff (YZ and Ghosts).
no hidden shit in the tracks, and they’re not a part of that whole arg crap i’m afraid…
Ah well, dreaming was nice…
NIN are pish![:|]
I ordered the $75 package. [unimpressed]
NIN are pish![:|]
Can I not escape you? I mean, really…[crazy][:P]
33 Ghosts IV - brilliant!
Thank perserverance
Ive been listenening to Ghosts a good bit last few days, and ive come to like more of it. Id still say it could have been whittled down to 2 volumes, around 20 songs. No volume is perfect but III and IV are pretty good. I agree with a previous post about hearing sounds that are coming from a variety of past NIN albums. Theres a song, think its 34 (not too sure, cant remember), thats sounds very like the ‘Still’ stuff which is cool. songs 10, 12, 28, 29 and 31 are quite good too. Think il make my own Ghosts compilation