Nine Inch Nails frontman blasts record label
Trent Reznor speaks out against high pricing of new album
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has spoken out against his record label, Universal Music Group, for the high pricing of his band's latest album, 'Year Zero'.

In a posting on Nine Inch Nails' website, Reznor said that the pricing is 'absurd' and accused the label of ripping off the band's fans.

Reznor wrote: "As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more."

As an example, Reznor cited the "absurd" retail pricing of 'Year Zero' in Australia.

He wrote, "Shame on you, UMG. 'Year Zero' is selling for $34.99 Australian dollars ($29.10 US). No wonder people steal music. Avril Lavigne's record in the same store was $21.99 ($18.21 US)."

Reznor continued: "When I asked a label rep about this his response was: 'It's because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.' So... I guess as a reward for being a 'true fan' you get ripped off."

He concluded by saying that Nine Inch Nails are planning to release a full-length remix collection, with details to come soon.

http://www.nme.com/news/nine-inch-nails/28365

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"Moderate intoxication includes additional abnormalities such as hyperactive bowel sounds,"

was he pricing his own records at nothing records?

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when that bitch breathes, the air comes out crooked.

No he didn't have control over price point when he was on TVT. Nothing is / was an offshoot of the larger Wea - that was quite a while ago though. It's his label, but distributed and owned by WEA. Artists generally don't price, but they can have a say. I agree with him. The labels fucked themselves with greed and are now making it worse. And when the Flaming Lips released the album and then waited a bit and then did anohter with bonuses I decided - fuck you. Now I just wait and see if something will come out later as it often does. When fans get burned too many times they eventually get pissed enough to stop supporting even their favorites. It's more of a priotity for me now to support the little guys. ::shrug::

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"Moderate intoxication includes additional abnormalities such as hyperactive bowel sounds,"

The prices for new CD's are a joke. Thats why I try to buy used CD's or just download stuff.

i DL it from limewire and put it on my MP3 player!

naughty me!

Perhaps Trent just has his cranky pants on:

ROCK REVIEW
NINE INCH NAILS
The Metro, city, May 13

It was all going so well. At the first of three nights at the Metro on Sunday, Trent Reznor and band were in searing form, tearing through the catalogue of his musical alter-ego Nine Inch Nails.

Indeed, almost everything on Sunday night (except for the Metro's bar prices) felt like a throwback to those halcyon days of 1995. Reznor's black-clad devotees even endeavoured to dress as such. The highlight of a crowd that prided itself on presentation: a petite, dreadlocked woman with a T-shirt administering the most sanguine of messages: "I Love Gay Porn."

Guitarist Twiggy - who used to play with another 1990s vestige, Marilyn Manson - even indulged in that most 1990s of concert activities, stage-diving, during a frenzied guitar solo early in the show.

This week's shows mark Reznor's fourth visit to Melbourne. His latest album, Year Zero, is a concept album that basically re-imagines the US as a police state 15 years in the future. It's an overwhelmingly paranoid and cynical stab at political and social commentary.

Although the excitable crowd were clearly craving material from Reznor's unsurpassed career highlight, the 1994 album The Downward Spiral, the new songs sounded excellent. There's the strangely hypnotic single Survivalism, The Beginning Of The End (which boasts an intro eerily reminiscent of My Sharona) and the almost catchy Capital G.

Midway through the show, the tide slightly turned. When a device with a keyboard and a laptop joined together was rolled on stage, "technical issues" lent an eight-minute pause to the show.

Reznor apologised, in his own way, blaming computer issues. Clearly agitated, he pressed on. The evening's most compelling moment should have been Reznor alone behind a keyboard playing his aching torch song, Hurt. Yet after a punter audibly inquired about Reznor's post-show activities midway through the intensely personal track, Reznor abruptly stopped playing.

"Am I supposed to pretend I can't hear an arsehole yelling at me?" he sneered. "Let's move on," he said, to a chorus of boos, as he terminated the track and lurched into The Hand That Feeds.

As that song ended, he slung his guitar in disgust, skulked off stage and the house lights immediately came on. There was clearly no encore (and therefore no hits such as Head Like A Hole, Perfect Drug, or career highpoint Closer).

Bemused fans mulled about for a time, patently confounded by Reznor's show-closing tantrum. The outburst was particularly disappointing considering that this was the first of three shows and his most fervent followers in Melbourne would have been in attendance. And it was going so well . . .

Nine Inch Nails play their final Melbourne show tonight. Tickets still available.


Anyone go????

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Sorry 'bout the fire
Sorry 'bout the torch
Sorry i had to have my revenge

Two million years of human evolution and that's the best idea you can come up with?

Honestly,

good for Trent for at least speaking up about it.

most bands tend to have a total indifferent opinion, or silenced opinion about stuff like that, but honestly.......it becomes a big factor for people to buy or not buy a CD these days.

i hope he feels the same way about the dvd.

I too am among the silent majority who would have - hand on heart! - bought the album, but for the price.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

It was £9.99 in the UK, and I thought that was pretty cheap.

Man, this takes me back a wee while! I remember going into HMV in about, I dunno, 2001/2002, with the specific intention of buying The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, and then walking the damn hell out of there on seeing that they were both going for about £18+ a pop. I'd only entertain paying that much for an import. At this point, I had no internet and so no handy option like amazon to check out. I don't know what it is about NIN, but even with TVT/Nothing their albums have been outrageously overpriced, at least in record stores. Had I wanted to buy those albums when they were intitally released and charting, I wouldn't have paid more than, I reckon, £14 in today's terms. Thereafter, the prices are just stupid.

Of course, it's easy peasy to get these things cheap on the web now, but why should a person who prefers to frequent an actual tangible record store be penalised that much? I can understand a quid or two for overheads (not that amazon doesn't have overheads, presumably lesser) but to charge £18 for a CD where most others in the same store kick around the £12-14 mark is just ridiculous. And yeah, it's pretty easy to get a CD here from a supermarket for £9.99 but you've got to catch it when it's charting or else you're doomed to pay stupid prices to HMV/Virgin and their like. Even the independent record stores round this way, on the few occasions that I checked, didn't have NIN albums particularly well priced. I wish I could say it's purely a record store thing, and I suppose some of it is, but I'm sure a lot of it is also down to the record company, like he says.

Idk. I'm just really glad the man actually noticed.

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

He's 'postponed' all his aust dates, i heard on the radio today. god i find him to be such a tool