NIN on NPR?

One of my favorite radio programs (man that makes me sound old) is NPRs 'This American Life'. I rarely get to listen to it when it is actually on the air, but I download the podcast and listen to it every week. Yesterday I am listening to a great story that took place almost 100 years ago. As they tell the story some background music is played, and I think to myself that it sounds familiar, but I can't place it. Then this morning it dawns on me, it is from Nine Inch Nails new album Ghosts. Now I have heard it all, NIN on NPR...

New NIN album

So in his great wisdom Trent Reznor has released a new Nine Inch Nails album (Ghosts) and bypassed the RIAA and any of the other retarded record companies. In 2007 Trent recognized the record companies for what they really are, thieves and liars. He never really made a ton of money on his albums (about 10 cents per $17.00 album - some are a little higher, but not much), no artist that sells albums using the traditional model makes "much" off of album sales. That isn't to say that some artist that sells several million copies doesn't make some good money, but a good percentage of that money is going to some fat record exec that really doesn't deserve it. The music industries practices are old an dated, and their fear of music downloading is just plain silly. Radiohead and now NIN have realized this and are offering DRM free (read you can do whatever you want with it) downloads for free, pay what you think it is worth, or $5 for digital format, and $10 for 3CDs. Guess who gets almost 100% of this? The artist. How has it worked? NIN's new album was released yesterday, and because so many people hit his site he had to upgrade servers to handle the bandwidth. How about Radiohead? They are laughing all the way to the bank. I for one paid the $10 dollars so that I could have a hard copy of the CDs to keep my NIN collection complete. How is the album? Go see for yourself...