Hats off to Nine Inch Nails for dishing out multiple albums in a year. Ghosts 1-4 was amazing and The Slip is even better. What's very cool is that Ghosts 1 is free and the 2-4 can be purchased for $5. What's even cooler is that the entire album of The Slip is under the Creative Commons license...making it free to download/own/play/edit/remix/share/do whatever with! That's when you know the artist really just loves his music, loves making music, and loves sharing it with the world.
I hope other artists start to follow the path of Trent Reznor.
The internet is really changing the way content is produced and delivered. The record companies are really scared now that people are trending towards downloading digital music and not purchasing the hard copies they used to rip people off for. I personally however wouldn't download music. I'd rather have the hard copy. Why? Well it gives me a sense of ownership and plus I love album art. But still, I think it's funny that the record companies who are used to making millions are finding themselves loosing more and more due to this issue. Artists can now charge a fraction of what the record companies charged, and still make a lot more than what the record companies paid them for making the music...so now it's good for both the artist and consumer without the evil greedy middle man.
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