Trent Reznor revealed his NIN iPhone app today and it's INSANE. It's brilliant. It's also super frustrating. I admire Trent so much for what he's done in the industry. I started following him after this speech in Australia about how they were charging a shitload of money overseas for essentially no reason:
After this, he gave away a bunch of albums for free, etc, etc. It basically sums up everything that we feel as a band. Because of that aesthetic, we've priced our music as low as possible, put tiered pricing in place, tried to offer lot's of different versions of our record. However, it gets SO frustrating because we do not have past income to rely on. We can't finance iPhone app development. Hell, have you seen our website? I think it's pretty punk rock, but it's plain for a reason. We run everything ourselves on the strongest platforms and services we can afford. We designed this site on our own because paying hundreds of dollars for a website we couldn't figure out how to update sounded pretty fucking dumb (which is what happened with our past two sites). It just sucks when you want to do all these awesome things but you just can't. I want Tourmaline iPhone apps and attractive, well functioning distro platforms and (when the time comes) a fan-centric ticketing service that doesn't rape youin the ass. ANYWAY. We stopped giving the album away for free because we couldn't afford to anymore. I'm tempted to do it again because I'd like everyone in the world to have our music and enjoy it. I think we might release an EP soon or something for free. Does that sound good? I have been browsing the Brian Jonestown Massacre catalog lately and admiring their output, even the parts that suck. We've got a lot of songs. That's what we do. We make music.