Actually, Trent was doing this same thing with NIN music since long before The Slip. He started doing this back in 2005 with With Teeth, continued it with Year Zero (even starting a website devoted to allowing fans to post their remixes of his music). Its always been given to the fans for free also. Radiohead took a page out of the NIN playbook when they did this with In Rainbows, only they charged the fans 99 cents for it. Get with the program, Rolling Stone!

It’s because Radiohead is the ultimate overrated college-alt-rock band. Even though The Slip wasn’t the best NIN work I have heard, I was grateful that I had the access that I did. And to all the Kanye haters out there, at least this guy has been pushing the envelope of hip-hop ever since he broke on the scene. His arrogance can be a little grating, but I like my rock stars pompous when they can back it up. The more interactive that fans feel they can be with their artists, the more money they will willingly give to those artists.

Umm… Trent Reznor did the same thing with his tracks from The Slip, and he did it for free. And he then let users upload and download those remixes for free as well.

Its bothersome that Radiohead gets all this publicity for doing great things in a mediocre fashion, where as other artists do those same things and take them to levels above and beyond what Radiohead did, yet they don’t get half the credit.