Reznor does it again - NiN releases the slip for free

After releasing a new track - Echoplex - on Facebook yesterday, Trent Reznor made a lot of people very happy today when he made the new NiN album available for free download. High-quality formats such as FLAC, M4A and WAVE are being distributed by torrent.

Reznor announced the release of the slip by thanking his fans: “thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me”. And of course “all files are 100% DRM-free”. I wonder how soon it will be before that statement will seem anachronistic. It’s still hard to believe that people are paying for files with DRM.

The whole download process is efficient and painless. They’ve really been paying attention to how they and others have done this before, learning from mistakes and making it as easy as possible for their fans to start listening.

Oh, and the album is great, too

It’s as though Reznor and NiN are providing a blueprint for how it should be done…