Nine Inch Nails gives another fuck you to the record industry.

[ROC]

From Pitchfork:

Reznor Hammers Another Nail in the Industry's Coffin

For the second time in a little over a week, a major player on the alt-rock scene has announced their departure from the mainstream music industry, as Trent Reznor announced today via the Nine Inch Nails website that he is no longer signed to longtime label Interscope, and may perhaps be choosing to go it alone:

"Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.

Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.

Exciting times, indeed."

Reznor very publicly clashed with Interscope over the release of the last NIN record, Year Zero, leaking pieces of the album himself and encouraging fans to download it for free. So it would be unlikely that he would sign with another major, or even any label at all-- given Reznor's large and rabid cult following, he could very easily pull a Radiohead and take matters into his own hands. (Perhaps that is what is alluded to by that "direct relationship with the audience.")

Regardless, we sure hope that remix album comes out soon.

Thanks to Theninhotline.net for the heads up.

[Bodom]

Ive been waiting for this since I heard the other Pretty Hate Machine album where Trent was all fucked up on Ecstasy.

[tristy]

Yeah, it's a very exciting time to be a huge Nails fan, like I am. The possibilities of remasters now that Trent is away from label pressure and owns his own music, Year Zero Part II, the remix album with a DVD (November 20th! According to the PRP, atleast)...

It's going to be a great 2008, that's all I can say. The sky's the limit for Nine Inch Nails now.

[Lowerdeck]

Not a NIN fan. But any big blow to the record industry is good in my books.