Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

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Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com: "If I think of it a month later walking through Amoeba (record store), hmm...do I want to just buy a piece of plastic and give most of the money to the record labels, who have to be thieves because my experience with them has always been that? And you have a lot of reasons why you didn't do it. So I thought if you take all those away and here's the record in as great a quality as you could ever want, it's available now and it's offered for an insulting low price, which I consider $5 to be, I thought that it would appeal to more people than it did. That's where my sense of disappointment is in general, that the idea was wrong in my head and for once I've given people too much credit.

Saul and I went at this thing with the right intentions. We wanted to put out the music that we believe in. We want to do it as unencumbered and as un-revenue-ad-generated and un-corporate-affiliated as possible. We wanted it without a string attached, without the hassle, without the bait and switch, or the 'Now you can buy the s**** version if you buy...' No, no, we said: 'Here it is. At the same time, it'd be nice if we can cover the costs and perhaps make a living doing it.'"


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