Ghosts I-IV

It was quite a to do getting my download of NIN - Ghosts I-IV. Purchasing the CD came with a one time download of the album for while you wait for the actual thing to arrive. The link came to my email that Sunday and I followed it right away. I chose my format and clicked download and then… it didn’t work. I tried again. Nothing. And again. Finally, it started to download at a snail’s pace and it failed three minutes in. According to the NIN site, my link had connected and my one download had been used. Now my link was a dead end. Many emails were sent over the next two days. Finally, a post came up on the NIN homepage apologizing to those who had a hard time downloading. Apparently, there was more internet traffic than they were prepared to deal with. It claimed that they unlocked our one time download links so that we can follow it again.
So I tried again. I opened the email, follow the link to the download link and click it. Now, instead of downloading the album I get a message asking me to follow the original link from my email. Well, that is what got me here.
Again, with the emails of complaints to the NIN site. On Thursday I received a reply from them that linked me to a complaint account that had my complaint nicely posted. There was neat little area for their response to my complaint, empty of course. Now I had a place to go to see that no progress was being made.
Finally, a new link came on Saturday. I have to admit, it was worth the wait. The music files were lossless and thus huge. It also came with an elaborate pdf of an extensive 41 page booklet. The album is quite experimental. Each song is instrumental and composed as a soundtrack to different photographs. Very cool.

Acquiring the music was a pain, but it made for kind of a fun ongoing saga for the week.
Furthermore, Trent is continuing to push the limits of convention. He has launched a video contest for fans to create visuals to accompany the music that was originally composed to accompany visuals. It is a pretty cool move to further connect artist and fan. Especially, when it is considered that he hosts a fan remix site and freely makes available multi-track files of his recent music.