Nine Inch Nails Give Us The Slip

Trent Reznor is really down with this whole shifting paradigm thing. Bare months after announcing a free Nine Inch Nails album (that would be Ghosts), Trent and his NIN compadres have given us The Slip, a "new full-length" Nine Inch Nails album. Unlike the Ghosts release, there is no option for paying anything, at all. It's all free - no matter which file version you choose. High quality MP3, FLAC, M4A or even 24/96 WAVE. Downloads include artwork and credits. Physical product fetishists can look forward to purchasing physical products in July.

How's he making money? Likely via licensing, merch and touring. When you can sell out arenas, you can afford to give away your albums.

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