About a week ago I started listening to LastFM again after and it seems it was perfect timing. The had a big announcement today.
In short there are going to have full length tracks available for listening. Plus the artist and labels get paid. It might depended on there coming subscription service being good or not but it all sound pretty good. I listen a lot today and other than the track names not matching the music playing for a short time it seems pretty cool to me. If it works right it another postive development for the music business.
If you read CDM and you should you might have read about it already. If not the article is here.
NIN is Cooler Than You or Options, Artwork & a Sample
Last year In_Rainbows got so much publicity last. Well Radiohead I got news. NIN is cooler than you.
The case for NIN being the leader of a new music industry model keeps mounting. The Saul Williams Album The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust free for the first 100,000 & now presumable passed that number only $5. Then the Remix Album & Site allowing anyone to remix and upload material easily. And mix in a plethora of very anti-big music statement.
As of yesterday Nine Inch Nails instrumental album Ghost I-IV is available after some tecnological problem(which I can sympathize with lately.) The is no less than 5 choice of how you would like it. $10 for 2-CD’s set to ship April 8th(can do a download now), a deluxe edition of Ghosts I-IV in a hardcover fabric slipcase containing: 2 audio CDs, 1 data DVD with all 36 tracks in multi-track format, and a Blu-ray disc with Ghosts I-IV in high-definition 96/24 stereo and accompanying slideshow for $75 dollar, for $300 you could have got a Ultra Deluxe Limited Edition Package but the have sold the 2500 copies.
There are two download options. The first 9 tracks free in DRM free mp3 of the whole .pdf art work. Or for the reasonable sum of $5 download the whole 36 tracks and art work. The download choices are 320kbs mp3, FLAC, or Apple lossless. IMHO they got it right. Options, Artwork & a Sample. You can not go wrong. Myself & others suggested should be done after In_Rainbows.
If you are not a NIN fan or instrumental fan or whatever but are a gear head you should check out the .pdf artwork that comes with the download. It doesn’t really matter what kind of gear porn you are into there are intimate phots of it. Vintage amp, boutique pedals, pile o’ spaghetti patch cord modular madness, etc. It is all there. Death by Audio couldn’t ask for better product placement.