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Its great to see these people finally taking some notice of Trent's "awareness". I think that he deserves the front cover of some/all of the trades too. Billboard has done a terrible job of giving him a half page article which he shared with another band when Ghosts came out. TR DESERVES THE COVER! He is changing the landscape of this whole pathetic record business but yet these no talent industry whores like Mariah Carey and Coldplay make all the headlines. Its *****. Trent Reznor is bringing us into the new era. Its great to be apart of it! Thanks NIN! Its an exciting time to be a NIN fan!
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/agreed What Trent is doing is amazing. He deserves so much more credit than everyone is giving him. Leading the way, and doing it well, Trent is a legend already.

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Here is the blog post that Ian Rogers refers to in the article: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/20 ...

I love that more and more sites like http://www.volumevote.com are embracing the free music model to promote artists. It's not like money can't be made with free distribution.

Reznor is obviously a leader here, but the only people who *aren't* in favor of digital distribution are either a) artists who are under-informed about how much money they stand to make once there's no middle man soaking 70% of every dollar, or b) part of the problem (ie, the middle men). This is such an efficient, obvious move: Content flowing straight from the author to the reader.

Haha, I like how random people become authorities in Diggland just because they are in a vague position of celebrity and say something diggers agree with.

Trent Reznor is so much cooler than that hag who polluted P2P with her "What the ***** do you think you're doing?" loserness.

What he’s doing doesn’t just take balls, awareness and intelligence, it takes genuine humility and respect for the fans.

yea but the problem i have is that he released an album like a few months ago and now hes releasing another one. Its great to have free albums from well known artist, but please make them quaility titles with soul put into them. it seems Trent just took some left over songs from his other albums and put them together for this album. i dont know, that's just my thought process on how you can release stuff so quickly in a short amount of time between albums.

Oh what would Digg ever do nowadays without Trent Reznor and Barrack Obama. If they found some ungodly way of making a baby together I think Digg.com would feel it's very own digg effect.

While I applaud his marketing creativity, Its just unfortunate that his last few albums weren't very good.
PHM is in my top 40 albums of all time. It's too bad that he's been on a downward spiral since then (pun intended).

Trent, your music is boring the ***** out of me. I might be getting older, but dammit man...make us shake our fists, heads, and hearts again. I can still rock. I know you can too.

Thanks, Trent.

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what a bunch of crap

This is the same Ian Rogers that used to date Winona Ryder, but (he claims) dumped her because she was too dumb to hang out with.

What, you mean Reznor hasn't just been pulling a Radiohead? Gee whiz mister, that's what every headline I ever read tells me to think!

Ian Rogers is very in tune with how the music industry needs to change to work for in the changing environment. He really gets what music fans want and how to deliver it to them. This is the guy that should be in charge of the record industry.

With several of the comments being about how "crap" Reznor's latest albums have been, I wonder if any of you had a look at the wikipedia link mentioned in the article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_timeline_of_ ...

There's no way you could bring out an album, perform at concerts, and work on a campaign like that (I followed every on-line link, read through most of the text, and even watched the whole video at Open Resistance) without it influencing future work, and when I think about it from a broader perspective, ambient music is what the world makes, and we're ***** on the world.

Go outside, listen to the birds, the wind, the waves, the backbeat of your own heart. That's the ambient music of life. That's not crap, that's real. Notice the discord created by cars, airplanes, trains, lawnmowers, hedge trimmers, etc.

Took me a while to notice that the cover art of Year Zero is a hand reaching from the sky - The Presence.

Anyone religious should be scared that you're not living up to your god's expectations. Anyone not religious should be worried we're past the tipping point for our planet - socially, economically, politically, and geographically.

It's not just music, ambient or otherwise, it's a message.

"WAKE UP AND GIVE A *****"

hell, i couldve said that. anyone that has any common sense and (real) musical taste knows Trent is the MAN.

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