from RAWKUS.COM:
Saul Williams Tries Out The Radiohead Sales Model With Help From Nine Inch Nails’ Frontman Trent Reznor
Known for his blend of poetry and hip-hop and his leading role in the independent film Slam, Saul Williams is the newest artist to toss aside the tradional album release and follow in the footsteps of Radiohead. Trent Reznor announced today that he’d be distributing the next album by Saul Williams, “The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust” via the internet. The album’s official site,niggytardust.com, launched today and is now taking pre-orders for its Nov. 1 release. Fans can either get it for free or “directly support the artists involved in the creation of this music” and throw Williams five bucks.
Fans who choose to pay nothing get the album as 192KBps MP3s, while those who cough up $5 also get higher-quality MP3s and FLACs of the album. (Everyone gets a PDF with art and lyrics as well.) As Reznor notes, Williams is “not the household name (yet!) that Radiohead is,” so he might not bring in the windfall 10 million dollars plus in cash that most suspect Radiohead has already generated in sales.
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1 imani // Nov 7, 2007 at 6:35 am
for the record. I bought it for $5. Review coming shortly.
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