NIN

Nine Inch Nails. They are the massive driving force behind Industrial music.

And they are one of my favorite bands of all time (well I guess Trent Reznor as he is pretty much a one man band - apart from his live band - kinda need that for concerts).

NIN caused some heads to turn as Trent was always critical of the music industry. He later managed to leave the labels and immediately followed up with Ghosts I-IV. Ghosts is a 36 track instrumental and it took a different departure from Radiohead's In Rainbows. It gave the a few tracks for free and offered to sell the album in whichever format the customer/fan would like it (from virtual MP3 copies, to CDs and virtual copies, to some Vinyl, cds, and virtual copies). This sold real well and I personally have never seen a site go down faster short of a DDoS attack (NIN became overloaded with the amount of people wanting to download and order stuff).

Today, they released The Slip through multiple formats. I personally downloaded the FLAC for my music player and 24/96 WAV for listening at home.

He also left a comment on their front page.

"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me)"

Right on! Keep sticking it up to the recording industry!

They also have a concert in July here in Seattle @ Key Arena. Tickets go on sale on the 7th. Needless to say, I am very inclined to go. I promised myself that I only really have the desire to see two bands in my whole life. Megadeth and NIN.

Hopefully one of them will be fulfilled real soon.