which were free for download Amazon's bestselling of 2008 was available as a free download. Amazon's bestselling MP3 album of the year was legally available as a free download on filesharing networks. Proving either that market economics are complicated or Nine Inch Nails fans are crazy, 's Ghosts I-IV topped Amazon's list of 2008 sellers, beating Coldplay, Snow Patrol and Keane. The double-album was available for purchase at Amazon, direct from NIN, or as a free, Creative Commons-licensed download on major P2P networks. Ghosts I-IV was a surprise release in March, announced without warning on the Nine Inch Nails website. Forgoing record labels, Reznor used independent licensing company Tunecore to make the 36 tracks available on Amazon – paying just $38 for the service. By selling special versions of the album, Ghosts I-IV generated some $1.6m (£1m) in revenue in its first week. Other winners in Amazon's year-end MP3 album charts were Coldplay's Viva La Vida, Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs, the Mouldy Peaches-studded soundtrack to Juno, and 3 Doors Down's self-titled album. Radiohead's In Rainbows, which was also available as a free, legal download, was ranked No 8. Buoyed by his success with Ghosts I-IV, Reznor's follow-up was again free, without even the need for P2P. The Slip is available as a direct download from the NIN site. More recently, Reznor made available over 400GB of high-definition live NIN footage, inviting fans to edit the material themselves. Though he referred coyly to "a shadowy group of subversives" and "lacking security", this is presumably the raw footage from NIN's aborted live DVD project. So yes, it is, inevitably, free. Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites. Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album "Ghosts" on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts. “Ghosts” is released under a non-commercial Creative Commons license and can be shared freely, something their fans weren’t allowed to do when the band was held back by a . In the release notes the band writes: “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.” This sounds is music to our ears, in more ways than one. For now, only the first volume has been uploaded onto BitTorrent sites, but the entire collection is available for download on the official website for only $5. “Ghosts I is the first part of the 36 track collection Ghosts I-IV. Undoubtedly you’ll be able to find the complete collection on the same torrent network you found this file”. They further write in the release notes “But if you’re interested in the release, we encourage you to check it out at ghosts.nin.com, where the complete Ghosts I-IV is available directly from us in a variety of DRM-free digital formats, including FLAC lossless, for only $5.” Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been a supporter of sharing music via BitTorrent, even when it’s copyrighted. He isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too, I’m not gonna say I don’t” he said. Later that year, when OiNK was pulled offline he admitted that he was a member there ,and said , : “If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now.” The new Nine Inch Nails album including artwork is available for download on the official site, as well as on The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites. . On Bad Witch, Trent Reznor and conclude the conceptual narrative arc started on 2016's and continued on 2017's . Drifting outside the comfort zone of what a Nine Inch Nails album is expected to sound like, Bad Witch is the least accessible of the trilogy, a pessimistic, misanthropic, and frustrating cacophony that challenges even the most devoted NIN fan. And yet, after multiple listens, Bad Witch reveals itself as the most cohesive and enveloping experience of this period. As Reznor noted in interviews, Events focused on self-reflection and self-destruction, while Violence searched for answers from a broken world. Bad Witch concludes that we're the problem and humanity is doomed. That nihilistic blood courses through these six songs, which can be divided into pairs: a triptych within the trilogy. Reznor launches an immediate assault with "Shit Mirror," a corrosive reflection of the worst of us all. Shards of Broken cut through the distortion and handclaps and saxophones herald a "new world, new times" as Reznor accepts that "mutation feels alright." Bleeding directly into "Ahead of Ourselves," the torrent continues, with Reznor's ring-modulated vocals buried beneath a heavily programmed drum'n'bass beat and jagged riffs. Maniacally hopeless, humanity is condemned as a pack of "knuckle dragging animal(s)" who celebrate ignorance. Reznor hasn't been this outwardly pissed off in years and it's a thrill. The heart of Bad Witch owes much to and his final album, Blackstar. Instrumental jazz break "Play the Goddamned Part" -- which recalls Lost Highway's "Driver Down" expanded with more sax squeals and piano tinkering -- serves as a five-minute introduction to the Lynch-ian noir of lead single "," an oddity in the NIN catalog that debuts Reznor's hitherto unheard, Bowie-esque croon. Bad Witch closes with a pair of experimental squalls that devour nearly half of the album's run time. "I'm Not from This World" builds with ominous dread, an unnerving mutation of Reznor's work on the Quake soundtrack. "Over and Out" ends Bad Witch and the trilogy itself with more sax, full- throated singing, Year Zero beats, and ghostly Fragile-era xylophone. Both warning and resignation, Reznor cautions "time is running out" as the song evaporates into the ether, ending this 18-month journey on an uncomfortable note. As the band looks back upon three decades of pain and rage, Reznor and Ross leave the sonic bread crumbs and callback allusions to the first two installments, advancing with fresh and surprising new possibilities for the coming era of Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails Just Surprise-Released A Double Album For Free. With the coronavirus quarantine giving musicians a captive audience hungry for distraction, many artists have started looking for new ways to reach their fans. While many have chosen to livestream shows and song creation, others have gone the same route as Hollywood and simply released what they’re currently working on ahead of schedule and with full digital access. Now, industrial legends Nine Inch Nails have gone one step further, surprise-dropping a double album — for free. The album comes in two parts, Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI : Locusts, which can both be accessed and downloaded for free from the band’s website. Combined, the two records feature 23 tracks, and a glance at the running time shows that NIN are going long-form here, with most songs breaking the five-minute mark and many going for over 10 . Much of the music is ambient, stretching moments of distortion and unsettling piano over long periods of time and giving an eerie meaning to the releases’ titles. “ Anybody out there?” tweeted Trent Reznor, announcing the albums. ​ “ New Nine Inch Nails out now. Ghosts V – VI . Hours and hours of music. Free. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much.” 2020 was already shaping up to be a big year for Nine Inch Nails, with the band having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. “ A sincere thank you goes out to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame voting body, it always feels great to be recognised for your artistic efforts and I am honoured,” said Trent of the band’s inclusion in this year’s class. ​ “ Many congratulations to this year’s fellow inductees – see you back in Cleveland where it all began for me. “ Thanks to everyone who has been a part of Nine Inch Nails’ remarkable career!” Unfortunately, Trent and Atticus will have to wait a bit to celebrate the honor, as the Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony had to be postponed to November. “ Our first concern is to the health and safety of our attendees and artists and we are complying to the direction of the local and state authorities and common sense,” said Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame President Joel Peresman. ​ “ We look forward to rescheduling the ceremony and will make that announcement at the earliest convenience.” Nine Inch Nails drops two free albums: Download them now. band Nine Inch Nails has just published two new albums and they’re both free to download on the band’s website. The downloads went live ahead of plans to make them available to stream through popular streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, according to the band, which says that there are ‘hours and hours of music.’ In the modern music industry, albums typically drop on streaming services at an expected time; many people have moved beyond paying to download an album, even audiophiles who have increasingly turned to Hi-Fi services. Every now and again, however, an artist surprises their fans by dropping an album as a free download and that’s exactly what happened today. The two new albums are called ‘Ghost V’ and ‘Ghost VI’ — they’re both available to download from the Nine Inch Nails website here. In a post, the band said, ‘As the news seems to turn ever more grim by the hour, we’ve found ourselves vacillating wildly between feeling like there may be hope at times to utter despair – often changing minute to minute.’ The band went on to say: Music – whether listening to it, thinking about it or creating it – has always been the thing that helped us get through anything – good or bad. With that in mind, we decided to burn the midnight oil and complete these new Ghost records as a means of staying somewhat sane. GHOSTS V: TOGETHER is for when things seem like it might all be okay, and GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS… Well, you’ll figure it out. If you don’t have the available device space to download the albums and play them offline, the songs are also now available to stream on YouTube. The band says that both albums will drop on ‘all’ streaming services tonight, so you should soon be able to stream through Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, and more.