Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook

After experimenting with free BitTorrent distribution on their last album, ‘Ghosts’, The Nine Inch Nails are today releasing their latest single ‘Echoplex’ for free, to tens of millions of Facebook users. Also, everyone should check out NIN.com tomorrow – apparently a “surprise” awaits.

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In March, the Nine Inch Nails released their album ‘Ghosts’ under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, meaning that it can be shared freely. The band confirmed that they had uploaded the album themselves to sites like The Pirate Bay, Waffles.fm and What.cd. This is of course great news for BitTorrent fans, and a move which did the Nails’ image no harm at all.

Fans of the Nails will be delighted to hear that the free music vibe is going to get a fresh boost today. According to a report, a brand new track from the band entitled “Echoplex”, is now available for free download to millions of Facebook users.

Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been pro-filesharing and admits to downloading music using BitTorrent and was a member and supporter of the shuttered OiNK tracker.

For those without a Facebook account, no doubt there will be a copy of ‘Echoplex’ on your nearest BitTorrent tracker soon but make sure you check out the information included with the release. Apparently, those visiting www.nin.com, on May 5 are in for a surprise…..

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DDD

First?
WakuWaku

Yep DDD … you won the Darwin Award for today !
Triple D

Trent Reznor is creatively brilliant. He’s paving the way towards a the new music business model. I’m not in to his music anymore buy I’ll buy something just to support the guy.
me

Idiot, how is that a darwin award??
tt

He sold out to facebook he should have stayed torrent only
Anonymous

[quote]Idiot, how is that a darwin award??[/quote]

He was talking about DDD, the “OMGZ FIRZT” person.
Rikard

I thought the creationists won the Darwin Award for the “Intelligent Design” theory. Hard to top that.
Gav

[quote comment="372207"]He sold out to facebook he should have stayed torrent only[/quote]
I knew someone would say this. So what if he’s getting money from Facebook (which he probably is), the music is being given away for free, and that’s all that matters, right?
anonymous christian

[quote comment="372231"]I thought the creationists won the Darwin Award for the “Intelligent Design” theory.[/quote]
The creationists are dead? All of them? Since Darwin awards are only given out after successful removal from the genpool.
Rikard

I was hoping so.
man

Retards don’t even know what a Darwin award is, it seems.
lolwut

ITT: People who dont know what the darwin award is.
Generic User

[quote comment="372389"]Urban Dictionary: The darwin award is given to people usely postumesly for dying from an act of stupidity they created themselve..these acts are ether horendisly stupid or severly beyond common sense..it can not be a common act..it must be a one and only type of an herendous act of stupidity…most of these awards have been given out in the new york city area in the united states of america…what does that tell you?[/quote]

lol. Well who can complain about free stuff. Nice work nine inch nails.
cow

“Fans of the Nails”

“Fans of nin” is a much better choice. In fact, replacing each instance of “Nails” with “nin” will give us the impression that you actually listen to Nine Inch Nails.

And yes, you don’t need a Facebook account:
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails
Josh

I didn’t like the song, but it is a great idea.
Kochon

Free publicity for NIN.
Toost Inc.

Apart from this being far from the best song NIN ever made it’s quite exciting to see this huge boom of NIN-songs. And free to boot!

also for those who want to know, it wasn’t in this article but you can also download another new single Discipline from discipline.nin.com
Manacit

I hope more people see what NIN are doing and start doing it!
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Steven Finch

This is a very interesting game being played by the guys at NIN. There will have to come a point where they need to stop giving away their music. But the music industry will need a full reform before that happens!
chris

it was actually released on ilike first.

also, this has nothing to do with torrent news?

no surprise here at all.
chris

ps, i block all your ads
Jakob

Direct link mirror:

http://c.ilike.com/d/0000/198/0000198592.mp3?fn=Nine%20Inch%20Nails-Echoplex.mp3
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Fugazi

I hope NIN become _really_ successful. Earn enough money from doing what they do. Be it to drive the point _home_.
Rick

NIN has done a lot of this. Congrats for trying new mediums. Their stuff can be found here. http://liner.org
website design

Fans of the Nails will be delighted to hear that the free music vibe is going to get a fresh boost today. xexe

website design
WakuWaku

So go get the new album at NIN.COM

Another bite … tot the music industry. For free again.
teachernz

It’s a whole new album.
Tim

LIKE OMG AND THEY GAVE AWAY THE WHOLE ALBUM FOR FREE

http://dl.nin.com/theslip/

wake up guys.
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It’s not “The Nine Inch Nails”, it’s Nine Inch Nails.
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TypingLOL_CauseCancer

I wish they set it up so that people could donate a amount if they wanted to. I would at the very least donate a dollar to pay for their bandwidth and server cost, if not more.

NIN is great, I wish Trent the best in his endeavors.
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Anonymous

[quote comment="373110"]it was actually released on ilike first.

also, this has nothing to do with torrent news?

no surprise here at all.[/quote]

torrent freak is not just about torrents, its about the filesharing community and mentality in general, so this is certainly relevant.
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I love music of Nine Inch Nails! Nothing can awaken the soul..
http://www.thefunnypic.com/arts/artist554-nine-inch-nails/
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I love Nine Inch Nails.

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