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I highly recommend this album.

It’s yummy, and chock full of intestinal fortitude!

Seems like a bandwagon is forming (Radiohead, NIN, now this) and the right people are jumping on. Best quote that all the major sites are picking up on:

I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested. Do what you feel you need to do for your business, I’ll be polite, say thank you, and decline to sign. I won’t let Yahoo! invest any more money in consumer inconvenience. I will tell Yahoo! to give the money they were going to give me to build awesome media applications to Yahoo! Mail or Answers or some other deserving endeavor. I personally don’t have any more time to give and can’t bear to see any more money spent on pathetic attempts for control instead of building consumer value. Life’s too short. I want to delight consumers, not bum them out.

I’m not belittling any of those artists that already saw the light and are doing this, but the money hungry RIAA do not listen until you yank their food away while they are gorging themselves. If anything, major groups going it alone and pandering to their true masters; the fans that buy the records, merchandise, go to their concerts and blog about how much they want to have the band’s love child(ren); will only help the cause and embolden more to join the fold of artistic freedom.

Is that hope I sense? Or are we going to get punched in the gut again?
(via Gizmodo)

…but it seems some one else is beginning to see the light. (via Gizmodo)

That’s 2 on our side now. Radiohead leading the way

In the words of Princess Leia: “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”

AMAZING!!

I picked it up Monday afternoon on the ride home. Immediately Survivalism and Capital G stood out as great songs. I was able to listen to the entire album this morning while stuck in rain induced traffic. I am utterly impressed. Not since The Downward Spiral and The Fragile have I been this impressed. The best way to describe it is Modern Industrial. Where as the older stuff brought up images of rusty and dirty industrial landscapes this album inspires vistas of futuristic precision and sterilization. Gleaming metal smokestacks and smooth Metropolis inspired lines. The hard edge sound that they had in the past is there, but cleaner and more modern. It’s just really good.

This album is what With Teeth should have been. With Teeth seemed obligatory and poppy. It had it’s good parts, but it just seemed like Trent changed his style to get a radio friendly album out for his corporate masters. Zero Hour is more what I believe is Nine Inch Nails. Like I said above, I have only listened to the album all the way through once so far, but I can tell you that I was not bored or disappointed with any song. There are songs on With Teeth that I skipped through on my first listen. Not so on this one. And the beats….PHAT…with a P and H. I was actually listening to it and I heard ringing in my ears….it was magical.

Seriously, buy this album.

Edit: And one more thing…the CD changes fricken colors!!! It’s friggen heat sensitive. It’s black at first but if you run it in a CD player or a laptop the damn thing turns white! Freaked me out when I took it out of my laptop last night…I stared at it in disbelief for 5 minutes. Ask the wife…flabbergasted is the only way to describe it.

Edit Part 2: Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero