Year Zero - get excited
Anyone who hasn’t yet go check out Nine Inch Nail’s new release Year Zero (go on you can listen to the whole thing online I’ll wait). You also NEED to swing by NINWiki and read at least some of the back story.
Most importantly it’s the first album I’ve heard to actually mean something since 1994’s The Holy Bible Rather than harp on about it I’ll let you discover for yourself.
lefsetz get much more excited much more effectively that I ever could, go have a read - however the one thing I’ll really disagree with about their entry is the stuff about Mac owners. Creativity or even participating in cool online goings on is not determined by the brand of your hardware!
I’ve considered Macs multiple times but at the end of the day having to pay a premium for the fact that it’s a Mac is as bad as having to pay a “Microsoft tax” on a new PC. Yes Garageband is great but Audacity is a good first stop for anyone who wants to play on a Windows or Linux machine and LMMS is also worth checking out. Or if we’re talking about Reznor’s source files and you have another fave editor / sequencer just convert the files to WAV and away you go if it won’t open GarageBand files.
The money I saved by buying a non Mac Laptop (even with a three year onsite warranty) will let me go to about six NIN gigs and with a decent Linux distro installed it can more or less do everything the cool people on Macs can do.
As for the tracks being available to listen via steaming on the band’s website it’s clearly the way of the future. It didn’t stop me buying the CD, it made me pre-order it. It helps that the Year Zero digipack feels worth having (lyrics book, cool artwork, colour changing CD).
RIAA dinosaurs take note, change or die.
Rowan :: Apr.26.2007 :: Music, Personal Entries :: No Comments »