Nine Inch Nails Joins List of Artists Dumping their Record Labels

"How much I make is totally irrelevant to the discussion. 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!

Well I kind of seriously doubt that considering that NIN's last album reached number 2 on the billboard charts (previous album in 2005 went #1) and they had a single reach number 1 on the modern rock chart.

How much I make is totally irrelevant to the discussion. I'd say its quite possible that the label wanted to release them because they were no longer profitable.

@jaymour41....yeahI agree it does not matter who it is it is just another big name leaving the major studios. ....JosefStalin is just being a dumb ass .... nothing more...

SWEET! as for the comment "a washed up band" ... who cares if it is the Beastie Boys.. or Michael Jackson... or anyone else. The point is... if they DO leave the Homoerotic4 and distribute their own music via internet mp3... and show it's doable.. for extremely cheap and make a profit (no way you can't make a profit)... then other artists will inevitably fallow. ESPECIALLY if they make MORE money doing it that way... The point is.. I will take any big name artist that is going to be on our side of the fight.

I thought that Nine Inch Nails disbanded circa 1994. This isnt a blow to the recording industry. Its just a washed up band desperately trying to get a little publicity. 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 thought that Nine Inch Nails disbanded circa 1994. This isnt a blow to the recording industry. Its just a washed up band desperately trying to get a little publicity.

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Wooo...the good news just keeps on rolling. Let me try my hand at poetic metaphor: 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.

Now MADONNA has also left the big 4.....http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11436.cfm

"And so the tides shifted and drowned away the enemy with a swiftness never before seen." 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!

And so the tides shifted and drowned away the enemy with a swiftness never before seen.