November 3: Trent Reznor

I love this article (which Evan sent me)! Read it and weep: Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) readily admits that he downloads illegal music.

But that's not the most awesome part of the article, although it takes guts to say yeah, sure, I've stolen music. The best part to me is right here:

"...At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world’s greatest record store. Pretty much anything you could ever imagine, it was there, and it was there in the format you wanted.”

He goes on to say that he would have paid for the service, had that been an option... because there is nowhere in the current marketplace that's offering what music fans are hungrily searching for. Sites like iTunes and other legal services don't have the selection and the feel that suits a real audiophile.

I remember the same hassles about sites like Napster 6-8 years ago... it's curious to me that there still isn't a real solution to the problem, or a real option for the people who are honestly just trying to get their hands on good music.