NIN Dump Record Label
October 9th, 2007 | Published in Current Affairs, Music, Trends
Nine Inch Nails announced that they dumped their record label and it’s services. Trent Reznor wrote on the NIN site that the writing is on the wall for the traditional music distribution model, saying that the music business has radically mutated from one thing to something inherently very different today and that “it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.” It seems their next album will follow Radiohead’s Rainbows example and be released directly to the public. I completely agree with the comment below.
Gizmodo says, “If two of the biggest acts in the industry can see the digital writing on the wall and totally embrace it—that the old way of doing business is broken—why can’t the labels? What Radiohead and NIN are showing is that the business model “of the future” feared by entrenched interests isn’t arriving some time in the horizon. It’s touching down now.” More at Gizmodo
- Radiohead vs. NIN
- Future According to Radiohead
- Radiohead = 1.2 million downloads
- Radiohead lets the fans decide
- Allof MP3 Down for Good?
