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Nine Inch Nails’ The Slip: A free album heading to a store near you

11:36 a.m. · June 18, 2008 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Remember back in May when Trent Reznor put out NIN's The Slip for free on his website? Well, it seems that Trent isn’t completely over CD’s as a medium, because on July 22, it will be available in stores as either a CD (with a DVD, and big booklet) or as a limited edition vinyl.

So this is the full arc of “Pulling a Radiohead”: releasing the album online for free, then putting out a physical copy a few months later in hopes that the truly devoted will actually buy it. At some point, this has to backfire, right?