10-09-2007, 12:54 PM
Quote:Highly popular Industrial Rock Band Nine Inch Nails have announced that as of today they are free agents, and will not be using the services of a record company in the future.
Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor wrote on the NIN site that the writing is on the wall for the traditional music distribution model, saying that the music business has radically mutated from one thing to something inherently very different today and that it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as i see fit and appropriate....
full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/08/nin...ys-coffin/
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Quote:If two of the biggest acts in the industry can see the digital writing on the wall and totally embrace itthat the old way of doing business is brokenwhy cant the labels? What Radiohead and NIN are showing is that the business model of the future feared by entrenched interests isnt arriving some time in the horizon. Its touching down now...
full article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/08/nin...ys-coffin/
