Posted on : 25-03-2009 | By : Chris
This summer Janes Addiction and NIN are going on the road for what they are calling NIN|JA 2009. Funny thing is, I saw both of them for the first time on the first Lollapoolaza tour, at Irvine Meadows, California back in 1990. Two years later I saw Rage Against the Machine open Lollapoolaza, whose singer is in Street Sweeper which will also be playing with Janes and NIN.
If you want the free music, just head over to ninja2009.com and give them your e-mail. They will send you a link and password that they call a token. After you go to the link and enter your token, you will be given the option to download the music in one of several file formats. Of course you got your mp3s, and m4a (Apple’s lossless format – meh), FLAC (lossless and my choice) and wave, which I almost got but I can convert FLAC to any format I want and it’s half the size of the waves. After you pick which format you will be able to download a torrent.
Trent Reznor has always had a good handle on making good use of techknowledgy. This isn’t the first time he has released music for free. Although the previous times he asked for a donation. This time it’s free and used as a promotional vehical for the tour. While the RIAA is out there fighting a loseing battle against file shareing, Trent, once again, has used it wisely. I also applaud his choice of using bit torrents for the distribution of this Ninja 2009 sampler.
