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Originally Posted by biggator6  Umm.. Trent recorded Pretty Hate Machine pretty much by himself - there was no band, just him - at night, on his own dime. He was an assistant at a studio at the time and recorded it in the off hours. Nobody gave him squat to record..
Then he signed and was distributed by TVT (yes, Tee Vee Toons) records - not exactly a big-dollar major with big marketing budgets. That may be why nobody except a handful of people heard 'head like a hole' or 'down in it' until it had been out for damn near 3 years and MTV (when they still played music) and some radio stations started picking it up. |
Not only that. Pretty Hate Machine sold almost nothing the week it was released. TVT declared the album DEAD. It didn't start to break until 13 months later due only to word-of-mouth because it was kick ass innovative music. Then after having one of the first independent platinum albums, TVT wouldn't renegotiate Reznor's NOTORIOUSLY shitty deal so basically he was going to wait out his contract until he gave up some of his publishing to move to Interscope.
Reznor knows everyone is downloading his shit on bittorrent anyway, why not stick it up there himself? It will buy him press as being the "first" to do it, even though indie musicians have been doing it since bittorrent was released in 2001.