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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/nin_no_longer_needs_wants_a_record_label/ NIN no longer needs, wants a record label Trent posted this in the Nine Inch Nails blog that you have to pay to see (I do not, BTW...got it off a gossip blog): 08 October 2007: Big News Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: 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. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed. posted by Trent Reznor at 10:45 AM. Very cool.  A lot of small artists are doing, and have been doing this, for some time, but having recognizable names like NIN and Radiohead - and possibly Oasis and Jamiroquai - do these direct relationships with the audience will inspire up-and-comers to NOT SIGN CONTRACTS WITH LABELS.  Fuck them.  Fuck the music unions, the “artist associations” and all that crap.  Make music, turn it into MP3s, sell CDs direct to the music lover and use the Interwebernets to do it.  You don’t need the man anymore.  You don’t need to accept a soul-crushing, money-stealing deal just to get your record out. The sooner the music “business” dies off, the better.  Good for you Trent.