arstechnica.com— Trent Reznor released a new Nine Inch Nails record over the weekend and has already sold out his 2,500 deluxe editions at $300 a pop. This is what "competing with free" looks like.
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"Creative hobbies"...that's the problem with your statement right there. This isn't a hobby for Reznor; this isn't some kid with GarageBand on his Macbook slapping together a s**tty recording. This is a guy with a fully fledged recording studio who has been doing this s**t for a long time and has produced soundtracks for motion pictures as well as assisted other artists in producing their works as well. Far from a hobby.
You're dead on, this is about alternatives to traditional record companies that are afforded to huge mega-stars like reznor and radiohead. but when people use these kinds of stories as examples of alternatives that are available to emerging artists, then they are just plain wrong. i reiterate my main point that reznor can do this because he has been successful. he has been successful because of the marketing departments at major labels. and i also reiterate that a headline about reznor making $750K on an album is laughable, no matter what the rest of the story is.
and what's worse is the money that went in to developing NiN likely came from other artists on the label who became successful and didn't go and jump ship. but with NiN suddenly jumping ship, there's less money flowing back into the labels for development of new talent. but at least the fans are happy, they get music for free. the self-righteous (yet horribly, horribly uninformed) ones even get to feel like they're helping move music forward into the new millennium, that they are somehow bringing about positive change. go team.
tnoyMar 6, 2008
Dont worry, she'll spend 10x that in shoes in a given month.
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mrtangentMar 6, 2008
THIS. IS. SPARTA!!!!
poopfacemortyMar 7, 2008
"Creative hobbies"...that's the problem with your statement right there. This isn't a hobby for Reznor; this isn't some kid with GarageBand on his Macbook slapping together a s**tty recording. This is a guy with a fully fledged recording studio who has been doing this s**t for a long time and has produced soundtracks for motion pictures as well as assisted other artists in producing their works as well. Far from a hobby.
kdrcraigMar 7, 2008
So glad he did it this way. Such a great album, well worth the $300 for the deluxe edition
jordanfrankMar 17, 2008
you might be right, i just didn't get that impression from anything that I read on the subject.
jordanfrankMar 17, 2008
You're dead on, this is about alternatives to traditional record companies that are afforded to huge mega-stars like reznor and radiohead. but when people use these kinds of stories as examples of alternatives that are available to emerging artists, then they are just plain wrong. i reiterate my main point that reznor can do this because he has been successful. he has been successful because of the marketing departments at major labels. and i also reiterate that a headline about reznor making $750K on an album is laughable, no matter what the rest of the story is.
jordanfrankMar 17, 2008
and what's worse is the money that went in to developing NiN likely came from other artists on the label who became successful and didn't go and jump ship. but with NiN suddenly jumping ship, there's less money flowing back into the labels for development of new talent. but at least the fans are happy, they get music for free. the self-righteous (yet horribly, horribly uninformed) ones even get to feel like they're helping move music forward into the new millennium, that they are somehow bringing about positive change. go team.
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