As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry–and its sports counterpart–have had to realize they can’t control fans’ ability to take pictures.
Back when Trent Reznor was still signed to Universal Music, he tested out his own form of a promotional campaign for his latest album: he started hiding USB keys with songs off of the album in the bathroom at his various concerts.
Nine Inch Nails is taking cues from Radiohead’s experiment, and has launched their new album online, with record-setting options on both ends … free to very expensive. Its new instrumental album, “Ghosts I-IV” went live tonight. (The site’s very sluggish right now as fans hit the site in presumably crazy numbers).
There’s a great interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails up at CNET, in which he talks about his experience with the Saul Williams album he recently released as a “pay what you want” download. … I say it’s a great interview, and it is–but Trent also says something that I think is pretty dumb: he says that he’s in favor of an Internet tax, in which everyone would pay their service provider $5 extra and that money would then be distributed to artists to compensate them for downloading.
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