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as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.

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I have no idea what is going on with music, but I like it. Things are wildly unstructured, and the most recent offering from NIN is crazy-savvy. Instead of a CD, we have multiple formats, different encoding information, and torrent files.

…not only that, but “the slip” has been released with a creative commons license, and NIN are encouraging a remix ecosystem:

Very impressive work by Nine Inch Nails! …now, to actually listen to the music.

RTFA: http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUST…

TOKYO Reuters - Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.

Wait, doesn’t this mean the bra has to be exposed to sun light? I love the Japanese!