Saul Williams is gonna let you decide how much to pay for his next record.
Is this news? In what is fast-becoming standard industry practice the Brooklyner is releasing new album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust on the 1st of November.
Click here to sort it out, lad. Free or five buck. Up to you.
Winklepicker.
Photo: Simon Menhinick
Interesting...
I dont care
if it's political.
what a fucking awful title
Can
you just tell us when bands DON'T "do a Radiohead" from now on? It'll be a lot easier!
2 quid 50
for a saul williams album is well worth it.
PLEASE
stop calling it "doing a Radiohead". It's doing my head in... :(
YESSSSSSSS.
The title is funny. Saul Williams > you.
I hope these are meant to be funny
im sure they are
Tracklist:
1. Black History Month
2. Convict Colony
3. Tr(n)igger
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Break
6. NiggyTardust
7. DNA
8. WTF!
9. Scared Money
10. Raw
11. Skin of a Drum
12. No One Ever Does
13. Banged and Blown Through
14. Raised to be Lowered
15. The Ritual
works better than radioheads
because there is more emotional pressure involved
and a 192kbps minimum!
8)
I paid
It'll totally be worth it
All of the artists that could have done a radiohead
None please me more than this.
Fuck. Yeah.
You know when someone tells you a joke
then regardless of whether you get it or not, they explain it afterwards and ruin it?
This is kind of like that. Radiohead offered you the chance to say what you wanted to pay, with no further explanation or backup. But the subtext was "we're leaking it ourselves, you decide on your conscience whether you want to pay the artist". Whereas this one spells it out in black and white. Literally.
This is in no way a comment on the artist, whose work I'm not familiar with. On past recommendations on here, I'm going to give it a free punt then buy the better quality download if I like it...
This^
I got it for free, because that kind of attempted guilt tripping pisses me off.
$5
"I want to directly support the artists involved in the creation of this music."
$0
"I'm not concerned about that.I just want the music."
actually no Mr Williams, I'm intersted in what you have to show me, and I'm willing to listen and decide if I want to buy a CD. I don't want to pay for an MP3. It's like radiohead's guy said, who really knows the actual value of an MP3?
is it
out on cd soon?
i mean
is it out on cd at all?
ooh
i am soooo excited about the bardens show,i reckon he might slip in some new material,oh and the outfits+specially made bling!!priceless!
you reckon
someone doing a gig around the time of his new album "might slip in some new material"?
are you a soothsayer?
It is coming out on cd
for definite, but not for a while yet.
soothsayer
well it's a spoken word performance,i don't know if any of his new material would work without any "musical backing"
good point well made
haha alcxxk got owned!
or DID i?
probably.
Courtesy of my email and Mr Reznor
NiggyTardust!
As many of you know, I've been working closely with Saul Williams on his new record. We've spent many hours together in hotel rooms, busses, backstages and studios around the world working on something we knew was great. This is the most involved I've been with any project outside NIN since Antichrist Superstar, and I've been impatiently waiting for the chance for you to hear it. Well... guess what?
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! has arrived! After my own recent dealings with record labels we decided to release it directly to you. Head over to http://www.niggytardust.com for all the details. Register now and you can download the record November 1st. Working on this project was a real pleasure. Saul was interested in breaking boundaries / crossing genres / defying expectations and we learned a great deal from one another in the process. When asked about the sound of the record, I've had to resort to "... I really don't know HOW to describe it." That's a good thing more than ever these days.
A word on the way we've chosen to release this. There are obvious similarities in how Radiohead just released their new record and the way we've chosen to. After thinking about this way too much, I feel we've improved upon their idea in a few profound ways that benefit you, the consumer. You obviously will be the judge of this in the end. One thing that IS very different in our situation is that Saul's not the household name (yet!) that Radiohead is, and that means we need your support on this more than ever. If you like what you hear, spread the word.
I hope you enjoy the music,
TR
for the record..
I didn't really enjoy Saul Williams when I saw him live and think his records so far are not that great either, a bit too samey.
But then again I benchmark most records against Clouddead () and work on from there :-)
Trent Reznor
Songwritter, musician, artist, actor and now puppet master.
Is there anything the man can't do?
I'm counting the hours until he opens a kebab shop called Fist Fuck.
I'm counting the hours until he writes something new
that doesn't suck
;)
Plzplzplzplzplzplz
Listen to 'The Great Destroyer'
Mmm, synths
He leaked one of the songs on his own site, he's really killing his label execs.
Oh, wait... HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY. *ahem*
/trent worship
hmmmm
After Amethyst Rock Star I had high hopes for the guy, but the S/T record on Wichita kinda disappointed. Ah well, We'll see...