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Title: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: skeeterfood on March 04, 2008, 12:15:33 am: Looks like Trent is following in the footsteps RadioHead's In Rainbows experiment...

http://ghosts.nin.com/ (Purchases are alive again, though download speed is only 100KB/s)

He went a bit further off the beaten path though and released the albums under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) and even seeded the first album to the Pirate Bay torrent site.

It's 36 tracks of all-instrumental music. You can hear NIN (Nine Inch Nails) underpinnings in most of the songs, but it's not traditional NIN.

-John
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: Alex B on March 04, 2008, 03:11:36 am: If you are from US and prefer MP3 format you can buy the same 2-hour album from Amazon for $5. Here is the link (http://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-I-IV/dp/B00158SHD8/ref=dm_hp_alb_1?pf_rd_p=369506801&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=163856011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1JK2XJ9BGAC49A56QV0D), but please use MC's internal Amazon MP3 Store if you decide to buy it. At the moment, it shows up on the store's start page under "New & Notable".
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: RhinoBanga on March 04, 2008, 07:06:45 am: I just bought the album. I wanted the lossless rip and physical media so I went for the $10 deal, however shipping+handling brought it up to $24 :O
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: John Gateley on March 04, 2008, 09:10:39 am: I'm really curious how this will work out. It's $5 for mp3, $10 for CDs, $30 for vinyl, and $300 for all of these, plus Trent Reznor's signature...

j
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: skeeterfood on March 04, 2008, 10:41:18 am: Looks like the site is totally dead now...

I'm impatient, so I downloaded an MP3 torrent of the full Ghosts I-IV which I assume is legal, since ALL four "discs" were released under the Creative Commons license. I plan on buying the $5 flac version if the site ever comes back...

-John
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: skeeterfood on March 04, 2008, 08:58:04 pm: Site is back up and fully operational. Only an hour, or two, until I have the flac version playing in MC :)

BTW the 2,500 $300 Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition Packages are all gone.

-John
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: John Gateley on March 04, 2008, 09:44:14 pm: I read only the first few tracks were "legal" on the torrents, but don't know if that is true or not.

I can't believe the $300 packages are gone! $750,000!

j
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: brossmac on March 04, 2008, 10:58:32 pm: Quote from: John Gateley on March 04, 2008, 09:44:14 pm
I read only the first few tracks were "legal" on the torrents, but don't know if that is true or not.

I can't believe the $300 packages are gone! $750,000!

Proof that artists can still make money while releasing free music. It's not your grandfather's music business....
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: skeeterfood on March 04, 2008, 11:36:21 pm: Quote from: John Gateley on March 04, 2008, 09:44:14 pm
I read only the first few tracks were "legal" on the torrents, but don't know if that is true or not.

Based on this text on the faq page (http://ghosts.nin.com/main/faq), I read that the whole thing is fair to share, not just the first "disc".
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Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.

This wording would also seem to apply to the multi-track recordings available on the Blu-ray DVD that comes with the $75 package.

-John
Title: Re: NIN Ghosts I-IV DRM-Free (even Flac) for $5
Post by: jgreen on March 14, 2008, 08:26:33 pm: I've just now been listening to this (I've been living under a rock for the last 2 weeks), and I think it's really good stuff, and that's why it's succeeding like it is. Not to bash Boy Reznor, but it's different.