XDXDXD NIN!!!! XDXDXD

Hmm well where to start... this will probably be pretty unorganized again..... well almost a year ago nine inch nails released year zero with an Alternate reality game (ARG) to go along with it. nin had gone on tour in Australia, Asia, and Europe up to and after the release of the album. Trent Reznor, main person in nin, criticized the record industry for jacking up prices of the album because they claimed that nin fans would pay what ever price they put on the album. at many of the concerts, Trent told the fans to go ahead and steal his music. Trent had also leaked many songs ahead of time and even an unreleased dvd on sites like the pirate bay. around September of 2007, a remix album was announced for release in november as was a new saul williams album in the same month. saul had left his record label and collaborated with trent for the new record (heard about saul williams via trent reznor/nin.com/echoingthesound.org). the saul williams album was to be released on niggytardust.com for free at a lower bit rate or $5 for your choice of like 256, 320 or flac (free lossless audio codec) trent was also looking to leave interscope/nothing records for more artistic freedom, he was still obligated by his contract to release the remix album (titled y34rz3r0r3m1x3d haha) on interscope/nothing. when the album was released it was available in 3 formats, download from amazon or itunes, physical copy and i think another physical copy. anyways the multi tracks for each song were also released along with the album so that, using music mixing programs ( i use sony acid pro) you could remix any song off the album. trent also opened up remix.nin.com, a site where you could post your own remixes and listen and rate others. there was some more trouble with the record labels with this (what if people included a sample of a Madonna song in their song, OMG!) and so songs had to be reviewd before being submitted, no big deal. anyways after all of this happened trent reznor and some other people (atticus ross, adrian belew, allesandro cortini and maybe a few others) started working on a "secret project". the nin.com website was updated every couple days with some pictures, every now and then there was a new video on youtube.com/ninofficial . the pictures and videos showed the group working with laptops, synths, strange stringed instruments that i dont remember the names of, as well as other things. around january the photoblog stopped having as much activity. after a few weeks a few photos were released from hong kong with mysterious captions. people kept trying to make sense of them but were just going in circles.. in febuary nin.com was updated with something along the lines of "we've been working on a secret project and will start telling you things very soon" a couple days later on feb 15 it was updated with "2 weeks". well early yesterday morning the website was once again updated to say "soon". i started checking the website more often. well today when i had the chance to check the website it was very slow at loading. text was slow and the graphics took a while. it was updated with info saying "

02 March 2008: ghosts I - IV

The new Nine Inch Nails record is available RIGHT NOW.

posted by Trent Reznor at 5:47 PM pst, from hong kong.
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i called up one of my friends and told him about it, he freaked also =D, his internet seemed to be going faster than mine so he clicked on the link for me, ghosts.nin.com, and read off what it had to say. basically Trent and co. had decided to just go record for 10 weeks without an agenda and see what came out of it. the result was ghosts I -IV, 36 instrumental tracks. ghosts I is available for free download, I-IV for download for $5, a physical copy + download for $10, and deluxe options for $75 and $300. because of all the traffic to the site, the store crashed, but should be back up soon. nin had also posted ghosts I on the pirate bay (http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4059158/Nine_Inch_Nails_-_Ghosts_I_(2008)) which i am currently downloading as i wait for the store to be back up. there is also a player that streams all of the songs in a random order off of nin.com which i am listening to right now... i think that is all >.<