9 October 07 | tags: freedom, music |
Nine Inch Nails Is Free
When I mentioned last week that soon Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor would be free of the record label contract and onto bigger and better things in the way of selling records, I didn't realize it would be so soon. This popped up on his site yesterday:
Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.
Since Radiohead's In Rainbows drops today, in short time we'll probably be getting some stats of how successfully their own selling-directly-to-public methods worked. Now, who'll be the next established artist to jump on board?