Nine Inch Nails Release New Album....on Piratebay !

[cxi2001]

A good start :
http://ghosts.nin.com/

some more :
http://www.newsweek.com/id/118786
http://digg.com/tech_news/Internet_Less ... _and_Obama

So you can download it now for $5 (36 tracks, DRM free, lossless quality), download the first 9 tracks (320kps MP3's) for free off the official NIN Piratebay account (!) or pay $10 for a double cd set released in April as well as getting the downloads too. Or there's a couple of deluxe packages for $75 or $300 both of which feature the entire double album in multitrack format !

So aside from 'where's my credit card?' how do people feel about this ?
What with Radiohead doing the same thing, Trent coming up with a similar idea for Saul Williams' album - are the RIAA and record companies everywhere going to have a collective nervous breakdown ?

It's great that Radiohead and NIN can do this - two bands with a huge and passionate fanbase - how do you guys feel as musicians, pro or otherwise ?

NK