{"id":1808,"date":"2008-07-30T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/be-a-patriot-be-an-informer\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T21:28:12","slug":"be-a-patriot-be-an-informer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/be-a-patriot-be-an-informer\/","title":{"rendered":"BE A PATRIOT &#8211; BE AN INFORMER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>So a week ago I got my hard copy of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slip-Nine-Inch-Nails\/dp\/B001B71NOI\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1217472035&#038;sr=1-1\">The Slip<\/a><\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/theslip.nin.com\/\">Almost pointless<\/a>, except for posterity, yet it is nice to have on the shelf. And it&#8217;s a limited edition. (I&#8217;m #48,960\/250,000.)<\/p>\n<p>With that in hand, I ordered the rest of the recent NIN stuff I hadn&#8217;t bought &#8212; <i>Year Zero<\/i>, <i>Y34RZ3R0REM1X3D<\/i>, <i>Ghosts I-IV<\/i>. I did pay for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ghosts.nin.com\/\">download<\/a> of <i>Ghosts<\/i>, back when; again, though, hard copy. That all arrived today, and I notice he&#8217;s using the <a href=\"http:\/\/theslip.nin.com\/physical\/style\/ninslip\/images\/theslip_cd-dvd.jpg\">same packaging<\/a> for everything now. Which is interesting. He must have gotten the digipaks in bulk.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore&#8230; well, his latest three halos, in order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Halo 25: Two discs. Left disc, music; right disc, Garageband files. (This was just before <a href=\"http:\/\/remix.nin.com\/\">remix.nin.com<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li> Halo 26: Two discs, both music. <\/li>\n<li> Halo 27: Two discs. Left disc, music; right disc, DVD of rehearsals. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I see a pattern forming. Will his next album come with an <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/359800\/nine-inch-nails-dlc-penetrates-rock-band\">Xbox game<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Something else hilarious. Up until <i>With Teeth<\/i> &#8212; maybe and probably starting with the leading single, <i>The Hand That Feeds<\/i>; I don&#8217;t have a copy, because none of the singles after <i>The Perfect Drug<\/i> have been worth it &#8212; you have Trent&#8217;s standard, hugely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-media\/product-gallery\/B00001P4TH\/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all\">elaborate<\/a> packaging, plus the standard parental warnings and publisher copyright info and vague threats about unauthorized reproduction and whatever. <\/p>\n<p><i>With Teeth<\/i> era: really simple packaging, and huge, fugly, obnoxious FBI warnings all over the back cover, that imply anyone who buys the album is a potential criminal. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/kaiser2_1.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not from a NIN album; the <i>With Teeth<\/i> ones are far uglier. They&#8217;re just a painfully incompetent piece of graphic design. On <i>Year Zero<\/i>, that&#8217;s still there, if a bit more polished (so it looks like a negative image of the above) &#8212; and so is an even bigger parody warning, right next to it, in the same style. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonesreport.com\/images\/010507_bureau_morality.jpg\" width=\"450\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And the disc uses heat-sensitive paint, so your fingerprints are clearly left behind.<\/p>\n<p>After <i>R3M1X3D<\/i>, Trent is free from his contract, and the album backs&#8230; well, here&#8217;s what they say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a92008 NIN<br \/>\nManufactured and Distributed<br \/>\nin The United States by<br \/>\nRED Distribution, LLC.<br \/>\n79 Fifth Ave, 15th Fl<br \/>\nNYC10003<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a bar code. Then in the back of the booklet, there&#8217;s a note that everything is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike. There&#8217;s a link to explain what that means. And again, &#8220;\u00c2\u00a92008 NIN&#8221;. And that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a week ago I got my hard copy of The Slip. Almost pointless, except for posterity, yet it is nice to have on the shelf. And it&#8217;s a limited edition. (I&#8217;m #48,960\/250,000.) With that in hand, I ordered the rest of the recent NIN stuff I hadn&#8217;t bought &#8212; Year Zero, Y34RZ3R0REM1X3D, Ghosts I-IV. 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