Monday, May 05, 2008

Trent is your BFF :)

Trent Reznor has released the new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, online for free. Why? He likes you and wants you to spread his message of liking you, via dark, grimey, prog, industrial beats and haunting lyrics. Thanks Buddy!

In addition to making his new album available for free, and in every format you could possibly need, Reznor has also added a Creative Commons License to the album rights in order to allow everyone usage freedom of his music to remix, post on blogs, share with other friends, etc. Go get it at theslip.nin.com

4 comments:

-kw said...

If you're not a fan of this Terence Trent D'Arby guy you can check out early pioneers of digi free use and some GOOD music at the My Life in the Bush of Ghosts remix site.
Any others out there?

rfresh said...

Haha. Yikes. Is NIN shitty? Damn my bad - Anywho, spread the word about Creative Commons usage and learn more here.
http://creativecommons.org/about/
become nicer-er and learn to share.

rfresh said...

ALSO - The Beastie Boys have had Accapella versions of their songs available for download for a few years now encouraging the worlds laptop producers to remix and spread the love.

http://www.beastieboys.com/remixer/

Anonymous said...

Don't forget the internet archive:

over 117,000 movies, almost 50,000 concerts, close to 255,000 audio recordings, and over 400,000 texts all for you to download and enjoy.

http://www.archive.org/index.php