Every year people excel in making new resolutions for the next year and outperform themselves breaking every single resolution even faster than the year before. The blogosphere is swamped with resolution posts and year review entries.
If one is needed, it is the ultimate proof that people will never change and no year will bring change to this. What will the next year bring us? The same as last year and you will still complain about the taxes you have to pay. The government will continue to annoy you and of course you will not consider if you could do better when being responsible and deciding for millions but at least there’s a football World Cup in South Africa this year.
I have given up on resolutions and symbolic, commercially abused dates. I will not stop smoking and I know that the world will not be saved by some superhero politician. Instead I have ambitions, personal and life ambitions and they are high. Very high.
For one the biggest hope is that I will be able to abuse all the potential I think having and I certainly do hope my bosses will challenge me enough to release this potential. But this entry is about last year’s movies and music. Read more
Not only am I a fan of Trent Reznor’s because of his music, but I also admire the guy for his online marketing understanding and knowledge. He did what brought Radiohead probably their biggest moment of fame, the In Rainbows release on a pay what you want principle, earlier already and actually had a plan for both Ghosts and The Slip.
Some days ago he chimed in once more and delivered his stance on whether artists should charge for their music or not.
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Music legend Trent Reznor has done it again. After the free release of Ghosts some weeks ago, NIN this time released their latest, The Slip as a free download.
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options – all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits
The album will also be released as CD and on Vinyl next month.
The album is available in standard MP3 quality, lossless FLAC and M4A downloads and in high quality WAVE format. Latter 3 options are torrent downloads.
Great to see music being released on the hated platforms.
Fans also might want to follow NIN on flickr, which NIN also uses as platform to release press images.
Nine Inch Nails follows the Radiohead’s lead and releases their latest album, Ghost I-IV partially free online, DRM free.
Their are five different ways to obtain the album:
- Free. The first 9 tracks of the album (together with PDF booklet and several wallpapers. 320kbps MP3))
- $5 for all 36 files. You can chose from different formats: FLAC Lossless, 320kbps MP3 or Apple Lossless (with 40page PDF)
- $10 for 2 CDs with 16 page booklet. CDs will ship early April, until then you can download the files from the $5 package
- $75 Deluxe Package. 2 audio CDs, 1 data DVD with all 36 tracks in multi-track format, and a Blu-ray disc with Ghosts I-IV in high-definition 96/24 stereo and slideshow
- $300 Ultra Deluxe Edition Package. 2500 Limited Edition Packages have already been sold out.
The only difference with the Radiohead album: ‘Ghosts’ rocks less than ‘In Rainbows’. :D
In my eternal eternal quest to share what I have or am doing, online I found a new service.
Maybe Rate Your Music is exactly that what I was looking for. Well kind of.
Rate Your Music allows you to manually add all the albums you have and rate/tag them, but you can also rate, or review even, any music.
I started my profile, adding and rating all the albums I currently have on my phone. W000t! another music show off.
Rate My Music just asks to be bought by last.fm and tied in together with their platform. Until that happens, let me share around 15% of my music library with you. Feel free to sign up, add me and other usual social networking stuff. It’s free! I will be adding as I change the music on my phone. :-)
Btw, maybe someone can give this awesome platform a less Myspace-lookalike-look.
Hands on with Spotify
This post was long overdue. The next big thing, after JC’s Second Homecoming in Wall·E, was launched as a private Beta months ago and invites were hard to come by. You had to come up with a great excuse to get access to the newest, bestest and fastest music application, Spotify.
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