Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is to offer free music via the torrent services. The band's first offering comes from its new instrumental record, Ghosts.

"Now that we're no longer constrained by a record label, we've decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them."                                                                            

Fans can download a nine-track version for free or pick up the four-volume set for a $5, via NIN's official site NIN.com, which has been bombarded to a virtual stop.

Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN) is an industrial rock band founded in Cleveland, Ohio 1988 by Trent Reznor.

As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its musical direction... read more...