Back when I bought my first one it was the revolution of the cassette tape — and some friends of mine and I put together a dial up “radio” show that played on an endless loop tape-recorder. We did it because it was fun and our audience loved it.

The hang up is not the music industry (which definitely sucks, don’t get me wrong) — it is the audience and the musicians. There are plenty of bands who have not gone for the “brass ring” of a hit single. The audience needs to refuse to buy crap, and the artists need to refuse to make crap. And the middle men can all get in a giant wet-tee-shirt contest oil and mud wrestling show at your local high school auditorium with the army recruiters and bible thumpers.

If you want to be free — stop pointing fingers and be free. Oh wait, you are free anyway…

Are you kidding? Of course they see it– but seeing it means they know their days (and profits) are numbered. Radiohead and NIN just proved that the “music industry” (studios, publishers, distributors) are simply no longer necessary, period. That’s why they fight so hard… and the harder they fight the more I laugh– because it means their extinction is closer and closer. Good riddance I say. I’d much rather the artists get my money for their work instead of a bunch of suits with limos and lear jets who couldn’t find a piece of decent music with both hands and flashlight.

BYE BYE MUSIC INDUSTRY— HELLO ARTISTS— WE LOVE YA!

October 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

“Nobody addressed my question about how this is different than Pearl Jam (besides Pearl Jam was a much larger act). How is NIN suppose to change the industry if Pearl Jam couldn’t? Oh well…”

His goal isn’t to change the whole industry, it’s to be able to have complete artistic freedom and to be able to get his music to the fans without screwing them over.

October 9th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

“……a band can just do as NIN has done and screw the industry that raised them. Is that right? Honestly, not completely (read above).”

A lot of people think that Trent just decided to get all mad at his label once he got his money, but many of you people are forgetting (or just don’t know) that he’s been kicking and screaming at his labels since he was first with TVT and told him that either they got to control how his music was or he couldn’t record anything. So he recorded Broken in secrecy. And at the time, when he wasn’t a huge, rich icon yet, he said that he’d rather give it all up and pump gas rather than let the label control his artistic vision. Then Interscope basically bought him from TVT - kicking and screaming for artistic control all the way. And he’s been butting heads with them to do things how he wants the whole way. They were always throwing up road blocks for him. There are a lot of things he’s mentioned that he wanted to do that fans wanted, but that Interscope wouldn’t let him do - like releasing the Closure DVD and selling soundboard recordings of concerts. So it’s not like he’s abandoning these amazing guys who did everything for him.

James House

October 9th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

“These records their giving away must suck. I know that when I love a record I will buy it because I want to support the artists and I know it’s expensive to make records. ACDC sold half a million records last year of Back in Black because it has value.”

How about the people in Australia who were being charged around $30 for nin’s latest album? He told people to steal it because he thought the price was unconscionable. Or the people in Russia, Israel, China who he told to steal it because they had no good legal source for the album? He’s just trying to keep the people from being screwed.

And the reason why ACDC CDs are still selling so well is because really old people don’t know how to use computers.