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New collection of 36 instrumental tracks released under a Creative Commons licence. A package of 9 tracks can be downloaded free. All 36 can be downloaded for US$5.

The licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) means anyone with the 36 tracks can also make them freely available for download. Also you can use them as the soundtrack to anything non-commercial you make (e.g. games, animations or videos), or make your own remixes. Or you can pay US$300 plus shipping for the signed vinyl LPs :)

Website: http://ghosts.nin.com (http://ghosts.nin.com)
(I did the nine-track download and it took 5 attempts - the servers are being bombarded)

Oooo I likes me some NIN.  Wonder if this is on iTunes for freez.

Didn't he do something like this for his last album too..?

Wikipedia says: In March 2007, the multitrack audio files of Year Zero's first single, "Survivalism," were released in Garageband format for fan remixing. The multitrack files for "Capital G," "My Violent Heart" and "Me, I'm Not" were released on April 26;[18] "The Beginning of the End," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12.[19] Initially formatted for Garageband and Logic Pro, WAV files for other applications were later distributed through BitTorrent.[20] On April 4, 2007 a high-quality leak of the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks.[21] In response, the entire album became available for streaming on Nine Inch Nails' MySpace page on April 10, 2007.

Edit - I've never been a major fan, but I've had the nine downloaded tracks on rotation in Winamp for the last couple of hours and liked them. I'm going to seek out the 36-track download, but might wait until the servers settle down.

ooooo.  This can be my treadmill music along with Tom Baker reading books.

What books is Tom Baker reading? I use audible lots and lots, and this sounds nifty. Or am I totally off track?

Whatever books he are enjoying.

Edit: Actualy I might be wrong. I can't get my head around it.  :ye_gods:

The one's I'm going to get are Doctor Who And The Pescatons and Journey to the Center of the Earth.  I love his voice. 

Good for Trent.

I'll buy this later on, when the servers settle.

Ooh thanks for the info.  I've been a fan for many years, but I don't check much music sites or anything very often so I could have missed this for a long time.

Last I remember reading was that there was plans for a follow-up to year zero to be released, but I know never to expect anything too quickly from Trent.

I bought the $10 version and my download crapped out at 739kb :(

Sent them an e-mail, but I'd advise holding off for a few days.

I can't hear shit, the roadies at the Dropkick Murphys show couldn't tell an equalizer from their own asshole, but after I can you know, hear again, I'm getting this. If it doesn't suck, the $75 package is super nice.

Downloading again right now, their servers seem to be a lot happier right now.

Update: I'm told the music is only for sale to people in the US. The rest of us are only allowed the 9 free tracks.

Also, Reznor himself has supposedly put up a Pirate Bay torrent of the 9 free tracks, to take some weight off his servers.

I'm in the UK and just got the 36 track version down  :awesome_for_real:

edit: there's some really nice artwork in here too.

It's OK, and I think it's great how he's distributing this, but I can't really get into a NIN album without Trent's vocals. Besides that, most of these 9 tracks are slow and ambient in nature. If I do listen to instrumental stuff, I at least prefer songs with some head bobbing/dancibility/pop sense.

This is some good ambient stuff, though.

Yep my second-hand info seems to be wrong. I just paid $5 with an Aussie credit card and gave an Aussie address and I'm downloading the FLAC version of the full thing.

yeah I'm in Australia too and could buy it.

Still waiting for my email with the download link though, is been like 5 hours :/

This stuff is awesome. Soooo awesome.

$300 set is sold out, they had 2500.

I love me some NIN. Year Zero was pretty good. If anyone has an alternate download link for any of this, let me know, since the Ghosts server is getting skullfucked.

You should be able to get the full versions from amazon.

And yeah... fucking awesome.

Downloaded the free shit. It's good, though I do wish it wasn't just instrumentals.

I don't know, having looped through all 36 tracks twice now the whole thing really gels very nicely; it felt a bit more subtle.

I fell of the Nin Wagon after downward spiral.

Going to check this out however. I hope its not just remixes after remixes.  :oh_i_see:

All of the albums after spiral are better than this. They fucking kick ass, to be exact. This is not really a good place to start imHo.

Site's description (http://ghosts.nin.com/main/more_info) of where this fits: This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as... something.

Yeah I read that.. Just saying. He's missing out on two good LP's (among other releases) if he hasn't touched anything since the Downward Spiral. They're more in tune with what he's heard from Reznor -- in my opinion, some new tracks are better even. I liked that Reznor got more analog and just rocked out in recent years.

I don't think this album sucks or anything though. I just have little use for it. Three years ago, I probably would have enjoyed it more... But I suppose I've kind of "dumbed down" my tastes, for lack of a better word. I don't care much about experimental projects from anyone these days. Now I just want catchy pop music, lots of explosions and porn in my movies, prefer classicism to anything else in painting, and have developed an appreciation for Robert Frost.  :-)

I dig the Fragile, even though I don't really listen to that kind of stuff much anymore. I liked the remixes of Spiral better than the original.

Ok, this stuff is putting me to sleep.

I bought the FLAC downloaded version for $5. It's pretty much NIN with no lyrics. Some noise, some actual music. Not bad though, and worth $5.

Much respect for Reznor, but I haven't liked anything he's done since The Fragile (and only about 5 songs on that).

Come to think of it, a lot of the stuff on Pretty Hate Machine comes off as trite these days.  And Downward Spiral, while having a few classics, also sort of falls flat with me.

I did try really hard to be a NIN fan though.  Really I'm just a fan of about 10 songs.  (The Perfect Drug is still one of the best songs ever, though.)

I have a nice remix album of The Perfect Drug. I was into the Orb a bit at that point, and the Aphex Twin ambient collection. Like I said, I don't really listen to that stuff anymore.

The Lost Highway soundtrack really was one of the best albums of the late 90s, it has so many originals on it and a lot of them are some of the bests the artists have ever made.

Ugh.. I was happy to pay the five bucks for this but it ranges from moderately enjoyable to farting into a microphone.  I just personally don't get the appeal of some of that distortion (in 11 Ghost II for example). 

Meh, couldn't find an isolated clip of what I wanted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmtNxw3Vv7M

I'm referring to the last two minutes of that.

"You have a woman's bottom, my Lady! I'll wager that sweet round pair of peaches has never been forced 'twixt two splintered planks, to plug a leak and save a ship!"

Tom Baker as Captain Rum!

By the way, NEVER FART IN A MICROPHONE.

Well, unless it's someone else's and you don't intend on singing through it.

Trust me on that one.

The CD release of Year Zero remixed came with a DVD full of the source tracks for the entire Year Zero album along with Garageband/other free software.  He also put up a site at http://www.ninremixes.com/ (http://www.ninremixes.com/) as well for the sole purpose of letting people make their own mixes and upload them.  I think he originally did it for some tracks from With Teeth as an experiment. 

Radiohead weren't even teh first to do this either: The The's Matt Johnson fell out with Universal over the way they distributed his last album, NakedSelf, and ended up making it entirely available (http://www.thethe.com/sections/library/backissues/jan2001-monster.html) for free download on his website, way back in 2001. 

They are inviting the creation of visuals to go with the Ghosts music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYDUk0ESwt4

They will then hold a film festival featuring the best visuals.

Minor necro:

Trent Reznor is releasing anothe free album, The Slip

The Slip (http://dl.nin.com/theslip/)

I'm getting the link at the moment, I'll post comments later once I've actually got it.

It's very pop.  That's not a bad thing, though, and it's a pretty shallow first-listen response.  God bless him for getting out from under the finger of Interscope, though; this has been a fantastic year to be a NIN fan.

I love pop music, and I absolutely hate this album.

Which is weird, I've never HATED a NIN album. At worst I've been indifferent. But I really really just don't like this one.

On first listen its not blowing me away but its certainly listenable enough.

I love though how he is changing his relationship with his fans.  This is feeling more than an artist just experimenting with digital distribution, if he keeps putting out his experiments and playing arounds its becoming more a kind of musical journal.  This is all the sort of stuff he probably would have made and chucked out in the old days while developing a new album, but now he is sharing it warts and all and its quite a change for someone that is such a perfectionist as Trent is purported to be.  I'm really looking forward to how this develops, its going to be tough for him I think when he puts out his next commercial album (if he does indeed ever put out a more traditionally distributed album again) as the expectations will be so high for a commercial product given all the free stuff he is putting out.  But then there has been lots of expectations on every album since broken anyways so ...

I think this is the neatest aspect of digital media distribution.  Years ago if an artist put an album together and the record company or artist hated it, they would shelve it for years and start over rather than spin the vinyl\tape\CD and come up with artwork\packing and distribution.  Now they don't even have to make it a 100% polished product, they can just release it digitally with as much or as little artwork as they choose and it really doesn't take a major effort or support structure to do so, unlike preparing a CD for release in the box retailers.  Rob Halford did the same thing on his first solo album in 2000, releasing various demos and pre-release radio recordings of the album some 6 months in advance.  Not all of the songs changed much, but some did and it was interesting to hear how the arrangement and lyrics of a particular song would change from pre-release to final product (and how some songs just didn't make the cut despite being good songs).  As far as I am concerned, the more music an artist puts out, the more the artist and fans can relate.  I dislike waiting 3, 4, 5, even 6 years in between albums for some artists, and having a few demos or throw-away songs released "just because" is really a good way to keep in touch with the fans and even keep creativity flowing.  Gauging fan reactions to new material may even help with the final product - why put something that people think will be filler or crap on the record when whittling down song selection?

I tried to remix one of his song's using the files provided at remix.nin.com (http://remix.nin.com). It's a lot harder than I had expected, but also quite a fun diversion.

/necro

Trent just posted a New Year's gift - a link to 400+ GB of HD video footage of NIN live.

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?18,378166

I won't be downloading the raw footage, but I don't expect it will be long before some good edits are made from this. A videographer friend is planning to do some stuff with it. Also, the fans at http://thisoneisonus.org/ who were working on another show are planning to do some work on it.

Sweet. There's a Blu-Ray of previous concerts worthy of purchase. Getting new concert vids for free is damn cool deal. That's too much of a download for me though. I'll wait like you.