Monday, May 05, 2008

The Slip

It's May 5, and you know what that means: follow those mp3 tags to nin.com. In a shocking display of punctuality, the mystery was actually revealed at midnight. To quote:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

So get over to nin.com and get The Slip. CDs and vinyls will be available in July, too. Can ya Digg it?

Thank you, Mr. Reznor.

8 comments:

Amy said...

And also, somewhat less newsworthy, the 5th of May is St. George's Day. It's kind of like Talk Like A Pirate Day, but with more dragon-fighting goodness.

Blake said...

I think Discipline is my favourite track so far.

Lapsura said...

Ughh, it would be. What on earth is wrong with you, did you only listen to the first four tracks yet or something?

By the bye, Meathead knows why you like Discipline.

Lapsura said...

Guess what the bitrate is on those 24/96 WAVE ones...

Ok I'll just tell you. 4608 kbps!

Blake said...

I saw that. A 1 Gb torrent download. That's enormous for 10 songs. Are there multiple tracks? Did you download it?

Lapsura said...

Of course there are multiple tracks, it's the whole album. Or are you under the impression that the album consists of Discipline? :P I only got the mp3s and a multitrack of one song, so far. I don't really have need of anything else at this time, plus I got the deluxe edition.

I think it's clever how they're using torrents to distribute the huge-bandwidth formats, and are only using their own servers for the mp3s. If people don't have to pay for the album, then NIN shouldn't have to pay for bandwidth.

Blake said...

Quiet, you! :P

Which song did you get the multitrack of? I suppose they would have to charge a fee of some sort otherwise if they allowed direct downloads of the large-bandwidth items, just to pay for the band-width. But torrents are a much better way to distribute anything anyway. The rate of distribution is much faster and they wouldn't have to worry about their servers going down like with Ghosts.

Lapsura said...

What the heck was I talking about, "deluxe edition"? You'll have to forgive me, I'm expecting my DE of Ghosts in the mail tomorrow, and was mixing the albums up. I've been paying attention to the multitrack discussions about both albums, so it was a moment of confusion.