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![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, the listener becomes an active participant in shaping the music-listening experience, in which the value of the music is clearly associated with the amount of effort the listener puts forth in understanding, recontextualizing, and rearranging it. Instead, the entire first volume of the release is offered for free on the website established to distribute Ghosts, giving the listener a fair chance to determine whether or not the music is in fact worth their hard-earned cash.įurthering Trent's proposed new industry format is the availability of high quality multitracks for each song. To begin with, in Trent Reznor's new vision for the industry (or at least for his own work), the listener is no longer required to make a blind purchase based on a promising radio single or a glowing review, a strategy labels large and small have exploited since the beginning of the music industry to hawk sub par product to the otherwise uninformed. This has perhaps led to a stunning lack of actual criticism in the music press regarding the album, even though the circumstances surrounding the release are so forward-thinking that they could be considered just as key to appreciating the album as the music itself. Ghosts I-IV operates on so many different levels beyond those of the traditional record that critically evaluating the record can be troubling. ![]()
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