Nine Inch Nails Are Now Indie!

Trent Reznor's Greatest Hits (in chronological order):

Pre-NIN: "Reznor always reminded me of Harry Connick, Jr," said former piano teacher Rita Beglin.

Pre-NIN: Reznor was "very upbeat and friendly," said former Mercer High School band director, Dr. Hendley Hoge.
1993: Nine Inch Nails win a Grammy for "Best Metal Performance."
1994: The Downward Spiral goes double platinum.
2005: With Teeth
2007: "Steal it. Steal away. Give it to your friends." (TMT News)
2007:

08 October 2007: Big News

Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.

posted by Trent Reznor at 10:45 AM. 312 Comments


2008: NIN sign to Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, and EMI, sign up for Facebook.
2014: Reznor tells fans to steal his furniture. They do as they're told.

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