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Pennywise have released their new album ‘Reason To Believe‘ for free via MySpace

All you need do is click on the banner above, and add those guys (”textango” I believe) as a friend, then you’ll be able to download the album via a link they give you.

I haven’t listen to the album yet, but Pennywise are normally cool to listen too. There is an odd thing though; the 15th track isn’t there. Now this is where the obvious marketing comes in.

Textango is a service that allows you to buy/download music buy paying for it through your phone. So, you find a code on their site and text it; you are charge how ever much for the album plus your text rate. Good service really as it does allow people who want to earn through their music to offer it out to people in an easy way (well, I haven’t tired it as it is an American based service only at the moment). So Pennywise are still earning something out of this, but it is also giving something to the bands who will listen to market their music; we all know studio time isn’t cheap, so to be able to find a quick way of selling the music to the masses is great.

Laters.

I never got into Nine Inch Nails in the early days, I was took into my simplistic three-four piece punk rock (a la The Offspring, Green Day, Blink-182); but in recent years I came to listen to NIN a bit more in the form of ‘With Teeth’ that I thought was alright, but felt a bit incomplete. Then I came by ‘The Downward Spiral’ (thanks to the girlie) which was a bit more full on it’s self and I got more into the whole electro scene (having already heard some Electro-Punk like Epoxies, and Mindless Self Indulgence).

But now, thanks to the wonder of the internet, Trent Reznor has released his new album, ‘Ghosts I‘, on torrent.

This download does only include vol. I as Mr. Reznor is doing incremental releases.

Click on the image above if you want to download the whole lot now for a price ($5); I recommend it (yes, I paid).

This isn’t anything new; Radiohead did it with ‘In Rainbows‘ for a short time, but turned out it was a stunt set up by the record company. But Reznor has done a free album before with Saul Williams (as a featured artist) with his album ‘NiggyTardust‘, also a very good album; very much what you could concider being African-Punk as it looks at the history and oppression that is felt by Saul Williams.

Click on the links and get the album!

Laters.