Nine Inch Nails - download 9 songs of Ghost I-IV for free

[FischOderAal]

Unbelievable! Nine-Inch-Nails has released their new album Ghost I-IV under creative commons

you can download 9 of the 36 songs for free!
http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options

if you want to buy all of the 36 songs you can download them for 5 Dollar, the 2 CD-Set costs 10 Dollars. there's also a deluxe edition for 75 USD and an ultra-deluxe for 300 USD (including 2 vynils)

it's currently not that easy to download the 9 songs, too many want them of course :D I'm currently downloading with 20 kb/s :D the archive is 82.6 mb

this is a really awesome idea. I hope more bands will follow

[eXa]

9 songs and 82MB. Hmm, so its a fairly good bitrate too, unless all the songs are very long... ill DL when i get home.

[FischOderAal]

no. they are quite short and only accustical.

http://www.abload.de/img/ninunj.jpg

[lithpiperpilot]

it's 320kb/s encoded with LAME

[RaZz!]

awesome idea. unfortunately not my musical taste, but i'll give it a shot.

[bigdaddy25fb]

Finally reznor's branching off from his record label is paying off for him. His music may not appeal to all, but it takes artists like him to pave the way for more artists to start giving away their music like this...

[happychappy]

I almost feel bad that i don't like NIN that much, same with Radiohead

[nr2134]

Too bad I can only get 500KB out of it. :mad:

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Downloading now. :D

Hopefully it is as good as Year Zero. I loved that album.

[[XC] gomeler]

Interesting idea, too bad their music isn't something I'd even force myself to listen to. I'd like to see more of this available though, especially concert recordings, I prefer concert recordings for some bands.

[[XC] 2long4u]

I want dvd audio. With teeth had a 2 sided disc one side with cd the other with dvd.

[chunkylover77]

I paid and still can't dl from their site.

[Warship]

I bought the $300 Limited edition version.
Put your money where your mouths are people.
Encourage the beginning of the end of the recording industry.

[superbowtie]

Killer.. Kind of puts another nail in the coffin for the Idea that free downloadable music is making the artist live in a car.. Why isn't someone saying how their going to be broke and we're all stabbing them in the back!?! :rofl:

I'll most likely do the 5 dollar option cause I’m the poor one.:D

[Serra]

Encourage the beginning of the end of the recording industry.

The beginning of the end as I see it was the Grateful Dead, who welcomed the idea of people bringing audio recording devices to live performances because they knew people would buy the higher-quality recordings later... this is just another band that's catching on (43 years later). GD proved that not only was it doable, it was more profitable to let people bootleg, provided you can try to find some form of higher quality entertainment that they'd have to pay for.

IMO bads should be offering lower bit-rate songs (not terribly low, just not terribly high either) free and selling lossless off their site, that's how I'd do it anyway.

Disclaimer: OK, they weren't *the first*, but by far best known of that early movement...

[KoHaN69]

320 is still nothing compared to vinyls.

This should be the marketting strategy:
Download for free
Buy the vinyl / super-audio-CD

[BrownTown]

320 is still nothing compared to vinyls.

This should be the marketting strategy:
Download for free
Buy the vinyl / super-audio-CD

Except that probably 95% of the population can't tell the difference or doesn't own good enough audio equipment to exhibit the difference between MP3 and vinyl or SACD (including myself), so you would only be getting the most hard core people with that sort of setup.

[Daveb2012]

its not like there other albums, any thing by Trent Reznor will always be worth a listen though.

[zanzabar]

im getting it @ 625KB/s this is a great server tehy have


so long as its a quality rip (if this is some good 320 then it is) NIN is always good for ambiance


the tag lvl is amazing he even included the bpm on the id tag, and its not lioke his ushual stuff its like trippie post modern calsical

[Diverge]

I paid and couldn't download it either, crashed 2 times then said my reached my download limit. So I downloaded it from the pirates bay...lol.. there was even a torrent supposedly put up by trent there, cause people are encouraged to share the music.

quote on torrent:
Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I (2008)

Hello from Nine Inch Nails.

We\\\'re very proud to present a new collection of instrumental music, Ghosts I-IV. Almost two hours of music recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I-IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.

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.

We\\\'ve also made a 40 page PDF book to accompany the album. If you\\\'d like to download it for free, visit http://ghosts.nin.com/main/pdf

Ghosts I is the first part of the 36 track collection Ghosts I-IV. Undoubtedly you\\\'ll be able to find the complete collection on the same torrent network you found this file, but if you\\\'re interested in the release, we encourage you to check it out at ghosts.nin.com, where the complete Ghosts I-IV is available directly from us in a variety of DRM-free digital formats, including FLAC lossless, for only $5. You can also order it on CD, or as a deluxe package with multitrack audio files, high definition audio on Blu-ray disc, and a large hard-bound book.

We genuinely appreciate your support, and hope you enjoy the new music. Thanks for listening.

[nullface]

<3 no.7

[NINaudio]

For those who've downloaded, is this more in line with the older albums, or more along the lines of with teeth and year zero?

[[XC] 2long4u]

Except that probably 95% of the population can't tell the difference or doesn't own good enough audio equipment to exhibit the difference between MP3 and vinyl or SACD (including myself), so you would only be getting the most hard core people with that sort of setup.

Ha ha, we have good enough audio at work in the shop! We have a Pioneer SX-1050 receiver and a set of cerwin vegas!!! Right now we are experimenting with everything. We tried a SX-780, SX-880, and soon to try a SX-1250 or SX-1280. We are trying different audio sources also cd sounds great. We are going to try DVD audio tonight. :up:

[grimREEFER]

i just finished listening to it.
i love it.

[w0mbat]

downloading the $5 offer at the moment w/ ~250kb/s - i think its a great way to sell music :clap:

http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/y6a98kc/nin_ghos_dlt.JPG

[nullface]

For those who've downloaded, is this more in line with the older albums, or more along the lines of with teeth and year zero?

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=NIN+Ghost+I-IV&search_type= ;)

[hollo]

sold out of the 2500 ultra-deluxe packages in a single day
$300 x 2500 = $750,000
good day's work :wierd:

[[XC] 2long4u]

I just got the $10 cd set. They will ship me the cd's and I get the entire download :woot:

EDIT: He is going to make a fortune from this!!

[FischOderAal]

it seems like this works. hopefully more bands will follow :) too bad I didn't really like the 9 songs which were for free. they might be good for background music, but in the end way to calm for me...

Metalcore/Melodic-Death ftw :)

[[XC] 2long4u]

Artists keep doing this and it will spell the end for record companys and the RIAA!!:up:

[Diverge]

With the internet, bands can market, and do everything themselves. Especially once they have established a name for themselves. And they have total control of it all.

[Soulburner]

2long4u;2816010']I just got the $10 cd set. They will ship me the cd's and I get the entire download :woot:

EDIT: He is going to make a fortune from this!!

Trent is a very smart person, both musically and in the real-world. I think the only reason he hadn't done this earlier was being tied to his lablel, TVT records which is now bankrupt.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

This could be a watershed moment. At first, only well known bands will likely do it. Once it picks up momentum, there will probably be a couple sites where artists can go to flaunt their product. A music market, if you will.

I think Valve has done this with Steam. At first, it was a sub-par service that only catered to their products. Now, look at the steam it's picking up (ha! punny!). The musician who launches the musical equivalent of Steam could stand to make a fortune....



........and probably become corrupt as the labels they're replacing :lol:

[nullface]

Auw! :eek: :down: 50$ Shipping

EDIT: WTF!!!! I wonted to order 5 Dlx packs, me and 4 friends, but they just charged us 5*shipping one for each pack, 250$ shipping WTF!!!!!!!!!!

[grimREEFER]

we should have a music section on this forum...right?

[Verisimilitude]

I was impressed with this, and $5 for this cd in FLAC is definately worth it to me.

They should've been doing this since atleast 2004!

[nullface]

What shold i download FLAC og LAME?

I assume FLAC -> MP3 conversion is no problem, and FLAC is higher quality than LAME, so FLAC is the better choise, or not?

:banana::banana::banana::banana: it, I got FLAC!

[Den Leiw]

FLAC is losless compression and can be converted back to .wav so it is always the better choice seeing that you can convert it to mp3 afterwards

[Soulburner]

LAME is an .mp3 codec. It is considered the best at producing variable bitrate files that sound like the originals but take much less space.

FLAC is lossless like WAV, but more efficient in size. It is most commonly used as a "master copy" format for storage. I have used FLAC in Winamp, with the disk writer plug-in to write all of the songs to the HDD in WAV. I then run them through Exact Audio Copy, with the LAME 3.97 codec to produce 200-270kbps mp3 files. The sound is indistinguishable from the FLAC, but unlike FLAC the mp3s will play on my Zen at work ;)