After 18 years of recording contracts decides to nurture a "direct relationship" with its fans."Free of any recording contract with any label," there's an interesting post up on NIN's website that announces its intent to leave the record labels behind, and forge a "...direct relationship with the audience" as they see "fit and appropriate." This follows on Radiohead's announcement a while back that it would offer its latest album, "In Rainbows," directly to consumers at a price of their choosing, and hints by Oasis and Jamiroquai that they too may soon follow Radiohead's lead. NIN's frontman Trent Reznor has long been a vocal critic of the heavy handed tactics of the record industry. In particular was a comment by an exec who told him that they purposefully charge more for his CD than they do for other artists because his fans are more loyal. According to Reznor he said: It's because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy."So... I guess as a reward for being a 'true fan' you get ripped off," Reznor retorted.. Since such time he has been open and public about his support for illegally downloading his music, telling fans to please "steal my music" at every opportunity he gets. Now that NIN is no longer under contract he won't have to worry about fans getting ripped off since he has decided, in his own words, to now "...finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate." Rock on Reznor!
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LOL! That either sounds like the narration of a bestseller novel or a movie.
But I DO see this as a turning point in music. Never before have the ARTISTS themselves turned against their own labels like they are now....but it finally seems that there is a groundswell of bitterness in both the artists who do not make very much off a recording contract and the fans who have been getting ripped off for years.
BOTH it seems have decided to bypass the middleman known as the big 4. I can only see this as a very GOOD thing for consumers and giving the middle finger to the RIAA and big 4 both!
I hope the trend continues....because if more and more "brand name" groups such as this start to drop major labels.....the labels will have NO CHOICE but to change! Either that or become extinct....which suits me fine either way.
And for those that say you HAVE TO HAVE the major labels to distribute...I say BULLSHIT! Maybe before the internet, but not now!
I really wonder what that PUSSY GROUP "Metallica" thinks of all this? Lars is a dumbass anyway and most people hate him for the stand he took against it's own fans. I hope they go broke!
The divine wind, ever strengthening with the prayers of the pious, cuts ferociously against the corrupt elders; reducing everything to dust, and assuring the people that God is in his heaven.
Well they make pretty good money for a "washed up band"....how much you YOU make I wonder....I bet they make more than you do.
I'd say its quite possible that the label wanted to release them because they were no longer profitable.
I'd say its quite possible that the label wanted to release them because they were no longer profitable."
If you want to start judging groups, then my statement stands about how much more money they make than YOU.
If the labels wanted to "dump" them because they are a washed up band as you suggest.....they would have done it in a heartbeat a long time ago! The labels are in it for the money and if an artist does not produce....they get cut off. But they have not been cut off...matter of cat the other poster beat me to the pounch about their recent hits......which only PROVES how absolutely wrong you are!