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Nine Inch Nails are following in the footsteps of British band Radiohead, who let fans decide how much they wanted to pay for their new album.
Nine Inch Nails's new album Ghosts I-IV, a 36-track instumental album was made available on the band's website, NIN.com, today.
The album is available in several different formats, similar to the way British band Radiohead offered their latest release, In Rainbows, last year.
Fans can download a nine track sampler for free, purchase a digital version of the full 36 track album for US$5, buy a US$10 two-CD set (either via the website or in shops from April 8) or a $75 deluxe edition, which includes a hardcover book, DVD and a Blu-ray disc featuring high definition recordings and a slide show.
On the website, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor explains he has been planning the release of an instrumental album, the result of a 10-week 'experiment', for a while.
"I've been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn't have made sense until this point," Reznor says.
"This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective - dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams."
