You’ve likely heard that label free and piracy condoning Trent Reznor’s teemed with Oprah and Robyn‘s favorite poet-type musician Saul Williams to help him release his new, wonderfully titled album The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust! all In Rainbows-like. Yup, yup, you can pay $5 or nothing to download it in three possible formats, 192kbit/s mp3, 320kbit/s mp3 and Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). If you give nothing, you get the 192 by default, which is only fair, cheap-o. Trent and Saul have it all covered. Right, a new Williams album track called “Break” somehow “leaked” around the eve of the album’s proper release.
We were tipped to a note at nin.com wherein Trent gives the news:
**UPDATE!
Seems like someone leaked a track…
“Somebody.” Reznor even goes ahead and provides a link to thepiratebay.org. Appreciate the sliding scale, but all these new marketing shenanigans are giving us a headache. Oh, right, pretty ok song.
The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust! is out 11/1 via niggytardust.com.
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That is a hellva album title.
Better than (or not as good as, depending on how you approach the situation) the title for the upcoming Nas album.
Knowing both Reznor and Williams, I doubt it’s actually marketing shenanigans per se, more like an appreciation of how people actually get and discover music. Remember that “someone” also released the previously unreleased DVDs for the Broken movie and Closure around last Christmas; those were posted on The Pirate Bay by what seems unmistakably to be Trent Reznor and it really wasn’t at a time when it was promoting anything, it was just a Christmas gift and Reznor giving up on waiting on the labels to actually release them.
I mean, it seems quite understandable, you’re an artist who goes and makes something and then you have to wait and wait and wait and then eventually whatever corporation you have a pact with releases it, or maybe they don’t even, it just stays in limbo . . . after awhile one gets some sympathy for piracy!
Also pretty damn cool that they’re offering the album in FLAC. Now if only I hadn’t broken my good mp3 player’s headphone jack the other day through my own stupidity . . .
“all these new marketing shenanigans are giving us a headache”
yeah, you’re right, free music is SHIT isn’t it? what are these bastards doing? Stereogum says stick with the man and you’ll be oooohhhkaaayyy.
Fuck sake, you people will never be happy.
First impressions:
Trent has fucking lost it. Completely. His beats are boring and way too glossy and digital. And dragged (drug?) Saul down with him. Half the songs on the new album sound recycled from Trent’s past two largely crappy projects. Dude needs to get Chris Vrenna back. And maybe another drug addiction.
Check out this post about him in this great music blog:
http://www.8hands.com/musicblog/8hands_Featured_Artist_Saul_Williams