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Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

RedMetal — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:33:59 EDT

I paid $9.98 for Year Zero at Best Buy the week it came out after streaming it about four or five times the week before. (The disc my friend copied fron the internets - not so good. Perhaps the tubes were misaligned.) The heat sensitive coating on the CD - way cool. The price Aussies pay for music - not cool, and on top of the drought and the coming price increase on wine there . . . time to pull up the stakes in the ol' former penal colony. But didn't they get the last U2 CD a week before we did here in the World's Last Superpower?

RedMetal

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

punkybunky — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:42:09 EDT

I thought any extra packaging costs came out of the artist's profits, anyway. (?) Either way, Year Zero was cheaper than Lavigne's CD almost everywhere I saw them (in the US), so it's probably safe to say it's not the packaging's fault in the case of Australia.

punkybunky

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

Falconfire — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:36:55 EDT

@chrisb: Considering that a CD actually costs about 69 cents even factoring in production costs and advertising... pretty sure Interscope can eat it.

Falconfire

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

chrisb — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:08:29 EDT

Every NIN release I've bought since Broken has come in fucked-up, foldable, cardboard packaging with slide-out liner notes... all of which I have no doubt costs more than standard plastic jewel cases. There's your unnecessary price increase, Trent.

chrisb

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

Ed Corcoran — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:00:08 EDT

No Euro Maxi-Singles? Does that mean there won't be a bunch of terrible remixes by buzz artists of 2 years ago for me to download on Soulseek and laugh at? Oh noes.

Ed Corcoran

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

ghostyhead — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:58:23 EDT

@kiteless: He DID sign with a smaller indie: The first NIN album was on TVT, who were paid a shitload of money to release Trent from his deal so that Interscope could pimp him to the masses.

Seller's remorse, Mr. Reznor?

ghostyhead

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

RepentTokyo — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:46:42 EDT

wow way to take a stand for your fans, almost 20 years later.

RepentTokyo

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

kiteless — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:46:22 EDT

I love trent as much as the next guy but shouldn't this be filed under the "no shit, dude" tag? Mr. Reznor is not new to the game. If I'm not mistaken he even had his own imprint on Interscope, so I'm pretty sure he's aware of the degree of true fan rapery perpetrated throughout the years. Instead of taking the big 3 record deal from the major, he could've easily signed a deal with a smaller indie and then relied on his core fan base to support the records. It's unfair to criticize the machine when you were a willing participant. I hate him for making me defend it.

kiteless

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

Ned Raggett — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:44:36 EDT

So long as I can keep getting all my halos. (But god knows the recent singles for With Teeth needed WAY more than a live-in-studio run through.)

Ned Raggett

Trent Reznor Does Not Want You To Pay A Lot For This CD

Chris Molanphy — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:18:27 EDT

Interscope, eh? All roads lead back to Doug "the Thug."

Chris Molanphy