[kj] OT: Nine Inch Nails follows Radiohead, drops major label, pursues independent path

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I only mention because it seems to be a building sort of shake up of the 
music industry, which is getting more desperate and over-reaching with 
its insane propertarian aggression lately, a la that article Alex posted.

-Oliver


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  Nine Inch Nails follows Radiohead and dumps label


By Josephine Moulds, Technology Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:15am BST 11/10/2007

Industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails has followed Radiohead's lead and 
dumped its record label, but analysts say it is too early to call the 
end of the industry as we know it.

Lead singer Trent Reznor wrote on the band's website: "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."


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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/09/bcnnine109.xml