The popular rock bands Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction as well as the new band Street Sweeper (started by former Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello) have each contributed two tracks to a free EP that is available now for free online.
The bands hope the EP will bring more attention to their upcoming summer tour.
‘Whores’ and ‘Chip Away’ are from Jane’s Addiction’s 1987 debut album, and were notably produced by NIN frontman Trent Reznor. ‘Not So Pretty Now’ and ‘Non-Entity’ are additions from NIN. Street Sweeper has added two brand new tracks, ‘The Oath’ and ‘Clap For The Killers’.
All you need to download the EP at http://ninja2009.com/ is a working email address.
This is not the first time NIN has released a free EP online. The band is currently offering The Slip for free in “high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE.”
Result for: cd quality
In commemoration of its upcoming Nine Inch Nails: Lights in the Sky tour, the band has released a nice five-track EP on its website with songs from itself and four other bands which are on the tour.
According to the NIN website, the songs are all “high quality, DRM-free, fully-tagged MP3 files” and each download will even come with “cover art and a pack of digital extras.”
The five track EP includes the following songs:
1. a place to bury strangers - “to fix the gash in your head”
2. does it offend you, yeah? - “we are rockstars”
3. crystal castles - “crimewave (crystal castles vs HEALTH)”
4. deerhunter - “like new”
5. nine inch nails - “echoplex”
For those interested in picking up the free EP, all you need to do is sign up here and provide a working email address. You will then be emailed a download code for the EP and digital extras.
In early May, the band was applauded for fighting back against the record companies and giving away part of its album “Ghosts I-IV” for free in better-than-CD quality. The band also offered the CD in physical format and the rest of the CD in digital format for much cheaper prices than most CDs cost today. Their “experiment” is said to have netted $1.6 million USD for the band, with little to no production costs and nothing to pay to the labels.
