The Slip (2008)
Yours to keep
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- Download size
- 249.96 MB
- Included
- 10 files
- Added to the stash
Our current edition. First verified copy: the band's 10-track FLAC set, item total byte-verified on the box. Read the transfer report.
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The Record
Two months after Ghosts, and this time with songs. The Slip went up on nin.com on 5 May 2008 with a one-line note — "this one's on me" — free to everyone, no tiers, no pre-order, a Creative Commons license attached, and it is the more conventional record for it: ten tracks, forty-three minutes, verses and choruses, Discipline as the single. It is a proper Nine Inch Nails album that happens to have been given away, which is a different thing from an experiment.
It is also a leaner, angrier record than its reputation as the "free one" suggests. 1,000,000 and Letting You are as fast as anything since Broken; Lights in the Sky is a piano ballad Reznor has played at nearly every show since; Corona Radiata is seven minutes of drone that points straight at the film-score career to come. The lossless files are the band's own.
Release details
- Release
- Album
- Genre
- Industrial rock
- Released
- 2008-05-05
- Source license
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0/US
- Running time
- 43:51
Recording source: theslip.nin.com
Tracklist
- 999,999
- 1,000,000
- Letting You
- Descipline
- Echoplex
- Head Down
- Lights in the Sky
- Corona Radiata
- The Four of us are Dying
- Demon Seed
The copy we chose
Transfer Report
Chosen copy: the band's release on the Internet Archive, item nine_inch_nails_the_slip, uploaded 2008-05-09, four days after release — 10 FLAC files, one per track, contiguously numbered (01_999999.flac … 10_demon_seed.flac), 262 MB, 43 min, with two cover images and the PDF booklet alongside.
Checked against the ten-track listing before staging: no gaps, no duplicates, running order correct once sorted. The collection also holds an M4A set and the multitrack stems (a different product, not a copy of the album).
Creative Commons
Why It's Free
One layer, the artist's own license:
- The license. The Slip was released 2008-05-05 under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States; the Archive.org item carries the license URL and its description states it. Yours to download, keep, seed, share and rework under the same license; not for sale or commercial use — the band's term, passed through unchanged.
- Provenance. Uploaded the week of release from the band's own files. The physical CD/DVD edition that followed in July 2008 is a separate, commercial release and is not what this torrent carries.
Nine Inch Nails, The Slip (2008), released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 US
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