The Big-banged, Cash-covering (?) Spin coverboy is answering fan questions at NIN.com. Here’s a winner:
Actually, some of the Q&A is enlightening. Regarding the lack of booklet with the new CD, Trent explains:
CDs are dead. CDs are also an ugly, aesthetically unpleasant means of delivering data … When the time came to design the package for the With Teeth, I was unhappy with the limited “practical” choices available with the physical package. I also felt that it was unfair to those that purchased the music online. I wanted an experience that felt appropriate for the music and design. One that had an element of discovery to it and one that also said “fuck you” to aging and outdated convention. (When’s the last time you were really impressed with a CD package, honestly?)
Read his whole response here.
You can still stream With Teeth album here and if you’re feeling adventurous download the 70MB multi-track audio session (.sit) for “The Hand That Feeds.” If you’ve got GarageBand, you can make cool remixes like these:
Heard any other good ones? Post links in the comments.
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Johnny Cash’s cover of Reznor’s ‘hurt’ is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Cash brings a whole different meaning to the song…
And hey…what could be a bigger honor than having the original rock start cover your most personal song?
Love.live.Trent.
I was pretty impressed with the Guero package. It was alright.
I really liked the booklet to Picaresque, the photos are hilarious.
Trent’s logic is all sorts of fucked up. Instead of going the extra mile and maybe doing something to make his CD packaging stand out he basically says “fuck it” and cops out.
We’ll see how “dead” CDs are when he “moves” a quarter-million “units” this week.
BRAT’s mix with the Temptations is pretty cool
http://www.bratproductions.com/mixes/mashups.html#papawasinnin
after that shitty Out Hud cover and booklet for Let Us Never Speak of It Again, I might have to agree with Trent
He really doesn’t need so many steps to solve that problem. How aesthetically unpleasant.
He just had some leftover blank two pagers from Pretty Hate Machine lying around.
Bloc Party mash made my day… very clevs!
Nice remixes: http://www.iodine.org/archives/2005/04/thanks_trent.php
Further proof that Monsieur Reznor is a dickhead and hates his fans. “Hmm… think of the money I’ll save without the cd booklet…” Money hungry gobshite hasn’t put out a decent record in years.
those responses have been on nin.com for a good while…thanks for the vs. songs…
actaully you can find a very nice set of artwork, lyrics, and credits, including some cool hidden stuff onside a very large PDF file on nin.com !
Fred – ignant muvver fukker…
You think Trent gives a feck about cash? He already has five multi-platinum (UK, US & Euro) lps under his belt. If he did he’d release mediocre albums every two years and have had a best of ten years ago.
True, he hasn’t put a good record out in years. Bu that’s becuase he hasn;t put a record out in years. Until now.
And actually at the risk of sounding like a total cnut, I interviewed Reznor for a UK website and he said two things. He loves the fact that he has fans that keep him in cash, and that he can touch other people even if his songs are v personal, but that because of the last comment, his fans are a total nightmare: depressed, teenagers who write poetry and read Edgar Allen Poe and think they’ll probably kill themselves and plan which NIN songs to have played at their funeral….
Not Motley Crue really is it. I think Trent takes more flack than he deserves, he’s just a private fallible and flawed guy who’s a little too human for the rock star role he has reluctantly stepped into…
That bloc party/NIN mash up was totally fabulous!!!
my remix http://agentlovelette.frogpunch.com/bootleggery/nine_inch_nails_-_the_hand_that_feeds_(agentlovelette_remix).mp3
Well i remember the Sin single (maxi?) athat had some nice artwork. Maybe if he gave a shit.
Once you go beyond the jewelbox. Remember in the early 90′s when they got rid of the longboxes and all of a sudden packaging got creative for 5 minutes?
Or try Coudal’s Jewelboxing (google it) for some interesting and creative work done on jewelboxes.
G.
yeah, people “purchase” music online trent, sure they do.
people copy music from online sources aswell