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Declaring digital sales a success, rock veterans Nine Inch Nails have released another online album, The Slip. Unlike their last album, this one is totally free, and, according to front man Trent Reznor, is a thank-you to the band's fans.

The Slip is available from Nine Inch Nails' Web site ...

Peter Gabriel

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Peter Gabriel, the Grammy-award winning performer, this week applauded attempts by some artists to experiment with new ways to sell music.

Never mind that artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor are releasing albums online.

And forget that ringtones have helped lift rappers like Flo Rida to stardom and earned them some serious money.

These digital experiments apparently don't interest hip-hop icon DMX.

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts has earned $1.6 million

Ghosts I–IV  Last night, Nine Inch Nails released their new album Ghosts I–IV under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

So what exactly does that mean? Well, you can share and remix the music so long as you attribute them to Nine Inch Nails, you don’t make any money off of it, and you distribute any work you’ve altered/transformed/built upon under the same license.

Easy pie.

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Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor, the man behind the rock group Nine Inch Nails, continued his foray into self-distribution by releasing a 36-track instrumental album over the Internet.

The album, Ghosts I-IV, went on sale Sunday on NIN.com, the band's Web site, and was available in a varying range

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