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How to endear yourself to your fanbase while threatening your own retirement prospects: encourage them to pirate your work until such time as physical CDs become less costly. It's not a very sound long-term business model, but then ol' Trent's never been one for restrained, sensible decisions regarding his music. Just ask anyone who bought The Fragile at full price.
Reznor To Fans: Steal Music [Billboard]
no good advice
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I think I've fallen back in love with him.
so wait, are we berating him for telling people to download music? is downloading only good when the artists don't like it when we do it?
i'm confused!
help me idolators. don't forsake me!
Apparently, this was said in Australia, where CDs are about $40. If true, I think that little factoid would give a lot more context to this little rant.
Year Zero was on sale in AU for like $32 while everything around it was $20. The label said it was because of the fancy packaging and color change inks, but Trent paid out of pocket for that.
Love him or hate him, he's always been about the music, not the money.
Actually here is Aus CDs are well RRP is $AUD30 (about $25 US), most sell for about $25AUD, some places for top 40 stuff will have them for around $AUD20. Thats for most new releases. Though looking at some sites Year Zero was $AUD32.99.
He did say it in Aus and yeah apparently people are not happy with what he sad from an article from smh.com on the show
"But Reznor, a self-confessed illegal downloader, has been campaigning to have CD prices reduced since May when, on the band's website, he noted Year Zero sold in Australia for $34.99, compared with an Avril Lavigne album costing $21.99.
He said a Universal Music rep told him the price was so high because Nine Inch Nails fans would buy the record regardless of its cost.
"No wonder people steal music," Reznor wrote."
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