limited to 2500?

he's not going to sell them all; how many 16 year-olds can fork out $300 for a record?

but good for him. yes, it is sticking it to the majors.

enframed wrote:limited to 2500?

he's not going to sell them all; how many 16 year-olds can fork out $300 for a record?

I know people in their 30s that have already ordered the super-deluxe-o-tron-a-matic version. Although NIN may have some teeny bopper fans, many of the ones he had when he was actually worth listening to have grown up and gotten high-paying jobs.

As usual, jussayn.

Yeah I have no doubt Trent Reznor has enough die-hard fans to sell those 2,500 copies fast. If the number was any bigger than that I'd have my doubts, but I probably would have saved up and bagged it fast as a 12-year-old me. That is, if my dad didn't tell me "here's where we cross the line" and put it in my savings account.

AAAAAAAARGH wrote:Yeah I have no doubt Trent Reznor has enough die-hard fans to sell those 2,500 copies fast. If the number was any bigger than that I'd have my doubts, but I probably would have saved up and bagged it fast as a 12-year-old me. That is, if my dad didn't tell me "here's where we cross the line" and put it in my savings account.

bah!

no way.

i know some 30 yr olds that love NIN too but they love TR more. no vocals isn't going to appeal to them.

Skronk wrote:The extra packages are pretty silly, with the blu ray and whatnot, but its a good gesture that he's posting these torrents himself on different sites. What do you think?

I think Trent Reznor is a douchebag.

No seriously, that's great for him. It's nice that he takes out the time to throw a bone to/cash in on the whole rabid collector NIN fanboy demographic.

Haha, it's not the seller thats crazy, it's the buyer. I like this new release, but there's no way in hell I'd shell out 75, or 300 bucks just for his signature, and a tissue with his snot on it.

Putting it into perspective, if Shellac made a $300 limited edition vinyl record, I'd already have it pre-ordered and a place cleared on my wall.

The same thing for any number of bands if the package was cool.

enframed wrote:bah!

no way.

i know some 30 yr olds that love NIN too but they love TR more. no vocals isn't going to appeal to them.

I loved TR because I thought he was a musical genius. My favorite album by NIN (and the last NIN album I bought, I thankfully stopped caring about them over the hiatus) was Still, which only had 2 or 3 vocal tracks on it.

Here's a funny story about instrumental NIN. My favorite song by them/him was an instrumental called "at the heart of it all" which was on one of the remix CDs. I must have listened to this album about 2 or 3 times a day for several months. I was infatuated with it and I had never heard anything like it.

Anyway, I found out a few years later (after I was no longer into NIN) that this track was a remix by Aphex Twin. It was one of those "Remixes for Cash" he did where a label asked him for a remix of their song and he sent them whatever he was working on at the time. RDJ had never even heard the NIN album.

i bought the $300 one last night. so far, i'm enjoying the shit outta the mp3s - i'm glad that this was an instrumental-only release, as i've grown real weary of reznor's away-decay-toupee-flambee lyrics...

fuck it. i've been a fan for a long, long time, and i've been spending next to nothing on music for the last few years. plus, if the time machines ever come to fruition, i'm going to be able to amaze the shit outta the 16 year old me and all of my friends...

hench wrote:i bought the $300 one last night. so far, i'm enjoying the shit outta the mp3s - i'm glad that this was an instrumental-only release, as i've grown real weary of reznor's away-decay-toupee-flambee lyrics...

fuck it. i've been a fan for a long, long time, and i've been spending next to nothing on music for the last few years. plus, if the time machines ever come to fruition, i'm going to be able to amaze the shit outta the 16 year old me and all of my friends...

Man you shoulda done this $300 thing with your album, hench...