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The heralds of the brave new music business, Nine Inch Nails have released their new album Ghosts I-IV. The first 9 songs are available as a completely free download, while the entire 36 song album is available for a little bit of money. The download is $5 and download +physical disc packs go from $10 to $300 super special edition.

It all seems to work fine, I’m downloading my mp3’s at 80K/s. The only slight imperfection in a pleasant shopping experience was that while the double cd +download is priced at very reasonable $10, only the last confirmation page revealed that postage and handling is whopping $13. Serves me right for clinging on to physical media, I guess…

It will be interesting to see how this works out. At least here the signs are good. I’ve now bought my very first NIN album and the question is will Timo go for the $75 special edition or the $300 version…

Edit: Okay, so it didn’t actually work. The download died and since the download is one time only I guess I’m a bit screwed. But can’t blame them too much, the servers are taking a huge beating right now so this kind of stuff happens.

Edit2: Well, it seems everything will be fine… sometime. Newest update on nin.com says:

The response to this album has been overwhelming, causing our website to slow to a crawl. We THOUGHT we were ready, but… We’ve been adding more servers to accommodate the unexpected demand and we expect to be running smoothly in the next few hours. In the meantime, if you’ve had any problems with downloads from the Ghosts site, don’t worry - you’ll be able to use your download link again when the site is more stable. Thanks everyone for making this such an
immediate success.

Good for them :)

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