Nine Inch Nails have completed their contract and will now self publish.

I can almost hear the screams of terror at the RIAA and Majors. Who will be the next large band to leap?

It has been on the cards for a while that Trent would do this I guess. Telling his fans to download and steal his music at a recent Aussie concert should have fired warning shots but I guess his label diddn't listen

Now we just have to see if he can ever put out anything worth listening to again.

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Now we just have to see if he can ever put out anything worth listening to again.

Yep Petty Hate and Downward and Further Down are classics

Agreed. The last few have been... not so good.

Go Trent :up: Given his very public stoush with his record company last time he was in Oz this is no surprise at all.

It seems this new-fangled no-middle-man approach is working too. According to a band spokesman, people seem to be spending around the same on the new DRM-free Radiohead download (the one you can pay as much as you want for) as they would normally. Good ol' honesty Seems you can actually trust music consumers after all. It's not the fans who screw the bands ...

edit: Download should be ready to grab when I get home tonight. Suh-weeeeet

edit 2: just landed in my inbox! Something to listen to with a brewski when I get home. Sweet. I love the future.

Listening to it now. So far--very good. Surprisingly so.

So stoked that "Nude" still sounds so good all these years later.

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Agreed. The last few have been... not so good.

I have been giving With Teeth a good listen while at work recently and I have to say it has really grown on me. Not hear Year Zero yet.

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Go Trent :up: Given his very public stoush with his record company last time he was in Oz this is no surprise at all.

It seems this new-fangled no-middle-man approach is working too. According to a band spokesman, people seem to be spending around the same on the new DRM-free Radiohead download (the one you can pay as much as you want for) as they would normally. Good ol' honesty Seems you can actually trust music consumers after all. It's not the fans who screw the bands ...

edit: Download should be ready to grab when I get home tonight. Suh-weeeeet

edit 2: just landed in my inbox! Something to listen to with a brewski when I get home. Sweet. I love the future.

Yep, sounds like loads have also purchased the presentation pack.

UPDATE: They are all coming out now. Oasis, Jamiroquai have just said they will follow same path.

Is this the year we see all 4 majors die

Bring it! Sure, Oasis and Jamiroquai haven't done jack all worth noticing for, um, quite some time but it's still a good move. Who's next of the big guns? U2, Metallica, Muse, Foo Fighters, Kanye, Beyonce, JT? Could the party be over for big record companies hosting big bands, screwing them and charging us through the nose to own their material? Maybe record companies will be relegated to being small indie concerns or to a sort of development level instead being the point of the pyramid, fostering new talent to a point where they can go it alone ... hell, I'll happily sign my band to a shitty deal with a big record company TODAY if they promise to make us rich enough to eventually render them redundant

edit: first listen. That was really, really nice. Production is awesome. It demands another listen. I'll go get my *ahem* paraphernalia.