NIN - Year Zero

[Queen Mae]

Has anyone else been checking out this mindf*ck? Trent has created an entire storyline and webgame to promote his new album "Year Zero."

The lovely people at echoingthesound.com have created a wikipedia (http://www.ninwiki.com/Main_Page) for the game, which is the best way to start off. One of the songs, My violent heart, has been "leaked" as part of the game.

[Jakester]

I've not been clued in! Dangit! I heard the first single, "Survivalism" on the radio yesterday. Very cool. I'll need to check this out.

[edit]HOLY CRAP! This is AWESOME!

[Gentlemen Death]

NIN is one of my fav bands of all time and i just saw them last year, awesome show. I heard survivalism and violent heart and i like them both but perfer violent heart. it kinda sounds like his old stuff so i cant wait till this comes out and hopefully he will tour back here in the states again.
Also he has a DVD coming out of his current WITH TEETH tour on february27th i believe, so that should be cool too.

[Jakester]

Track 6, "Me, I'm not" was "leaked" on Monday.

[Queen Mae]

I have all of the "leaked" tracks if anyone wants them just pm me.

[Minion]

Anyone remember The Beast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_%28game%29) game when A.I. came out, or the ilovebees game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_love_bees) that advertised the release of the Halo 2 video game? They were both products of the ARG (alternate reality game) company 42 Entertainment (http://www.42entertainment.com/default.html), the same people behind this new Year Zero game.

I remember how incredibly detailed the ilovebees game was, and how involved it could become at times, so I can't wait to see how this game keeps progressing.

Minion: Loves Trent Reznor because he has openly expressed his dissatisfaction with current trends in rock music, especially...*shudder*...emo music.

[Jakester]

On The Year Zero site (http://yearzero.nin.com) is a teaser for the new album.
and here (http://yearzero.nin.com/0024) is the cover art.

[Queen Mae]

Minion: Loves Trent Reznor because he has openly expressed his dissatisfaction with current trends in rock music, especially...*shudder*...emo music.

Which is extremely stupid because Pretty Hate Machine is as emo as it gets.

Really... "you broke my heart, you won't marry me... wahhhh wahhhh wahhhh"

[Gentlemen Death]

So Pretty Hate Machine with its industrial style is EMO?? And ur justifacation for it is because he says heart or love? You just described about every song there is. So all songs are emo? im just curious and confused.

Help me out here, bands that cry about that crap are EMO bands like Fall Out Boy, Good Charlette, Matchbox Romance, Panic! At the Disco. Its just weird cause i have taken shit for listening to him and have heard countless times about how he "cries and whines" but have never heard NIN referred to as EMO, thats a first to me.

And when he says he doesnt like all the bands that are coming out nowadays, i agree with him but at the same time that is his opinoin and try not to take it to heart.

[Jakester]

Emo is the new goth, and Trent was and is loved by the goth crowd, especially back around PHM time.
I'd classify PHM as a sort of electronic, gothy industrial, but I see where my sister was going with the comparison.

[Trazalca]

FROM US WIRETAP---(via year zero)

AGENT SIKES
Good morning, Officer Slanski. My name is Claire Sikes. I’m with the Feds, and they have yanked me out of my cozy bed to wrap up this mess.


SLANSKI
Mess? I guess that’s one word for it.


AGENT SIKES
OK, let’s just step through the formalities.


SLANSKI
That’s not an FBI badge.


AGENT SIKES
No, it’s not. Officer Slanski, do you understand that this is an official inquiry into events surrounding the terrorist incident on the seventh of February?


SLANSKI
I do.


AGENT SIKES
And do you understand that what you say today is held to be under the force of oath, and any deviations from the truth will constitute perjury and be punishable as such?


SLANSKI
Do I need a lawyer here, or a union rep?


AGENT SIKES
Do you understand?


SLANSKI
I do.


AGENT SIKES
So. February seventh.


SLANSKI
I was walking my beat—


AGENT SIKES
Walking? Isn’t there a civilian patrol for that?


SLANSKI
I like to do it myself every few days. People will tell you stuff if they know you.


AGENT SIKES
Very commendable I’m sure.


SLANSKI
I got a 10-48 to the Star Chamber so I got there as fast as I could.


AGENT SIKES
Star Chamber?


SLANSKI
That’s what they call the building. They used to print the Star out of there, back when there were newspapers.


AGENT SIKES
But the building is empty now.


SLANSKI
Yes.


AGENT SIKES
And locals call it the Star Chamber.


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
Officer Slanski? You seem to be taking a long time to answer the question.


SLANSKI
I’m trying to guess how much you know already.


AGENT SIKES
I know.
Why don’t you assume I know everything, and go from there? It will save time.


SLANSKI
No, it’s just called the Star Building. But underground, where the printing presses used to be, there’s a big open space. That’s the Star Chamber.


AGENT SIKES
Which is a …nightclub?


SLANSKI
It’s just a place. Sometimes people get together there. Sometimes they play some music. It’s not very organized, as far as I know.


AGENT SIKES
As far as you know? I would think it would be your job to find out exactly how organized it was.


SLANSKI
I guess I’m not a very good cop.


AGENT SIKES
Actually, you know, I was looking at the stats for your districts. Over the last eight years, when you have been shift boss, districts under your supervision have consistently reported violent crime rates 15 to 20 percent below comparable districts matched by demo-profiles.


SLANSKI
There’s good people in the district.


AGENT SIKES
Curiously, your districts also consistently under-report violations of the Freedom Act.


SLANSKI
It’s pretty sleepy out here.


AGENT SIKES
Criminal speech, negligent morale, that sort of thing.


SLANSKI
People just want to watch TV.


AGENT SIKES
The difference is, citizens tend to report violent crime, whereas usually law enforcement officers are driving Freedom Act investigations. But you don’t have much of an arrest record on that score.


SLANSKI
There’s a lot of law-abiding folks in my district. Just bad luck, I guess.


AGENT SIKES
(no response)


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
Did you know any of the dead?


SLANSKI
What?


AGENT SIKES
The dead. There were 112 people locked in an underground nightclub you permitted to operate in your district. They were murdered over the course of 2 days, hunted down and torn to bloody pieces. I’m asking if you knew any of them.


SLANSKI
Yeah.


AGENT SIKES
Do you find yourself wondering if they would have been alive if you had shut that place down? I mean, if I was you, that’d be all I could think about.


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
You answered the 10-48 and went immediately to the Star Chamber.


SLANSKI
When I got there a couple of feds were already stringing quarantine tape.


AGENT SIKES
Could you hear anything?


SLANSKI
Screams. Screaming and yelling. People beating on the doors, but the feds had already padlocked all the doors.


AGENT SIKES
By Feds you mean people like me.


SLANSKI
Yes.


AGENT SIKES
What was your role?


SLANSKI
Crowd control. Some phone calls got out. We had people showing up trying to get into the Star building.


AGENT SIKES
And your job was to keep them back.


SLANSKI
People had kids in there. Brothers and sisters.


AGENT SIKES
And according to these notes, you did your job very well.


SLANSKI
It wasn’t my wife or kid dying in there.


AGENT SIKES
But you were “sick about the fucking feds and you wanted to kill someone.”


SLANSKI
The psychologist? You have a bug in the fucking office of the police psychologist?


AGENT SIKES
Don’t be paranoid, Officer Slanski. The psychologist turned over her records voluntarily.


SLANSKI
Of course she did.


AGENT SIKES
Apparently she isn’t as willing to look the other way as you are when it comes to subversive thoughts. About some things, maybe—but in the face of a terrorist incident which had just taken the lives of 112 Americans….


SLANSKI I
’m not a fucking politician. I just said it made me sick to hear those people in there. There wasn’t anything we could have done? I can’t believe there wasn’t anything.


AGENT SIKES
Try.


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
Hard.


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
Two days later you were called back to the scene. Describe what happened then.


SLANSKI
You know what happened.


AGENT SIKES
Yes, but I’m very thorough, so I’d like to hear you tell it. Tell me what happened yesterday.


SLANSKI
Crowd control again. A bunch of guys in bunny suits went into the building with some very serious equipment.


AGENT SIKES
What kind of equipment?


SLANSKI
I don’t know. Flamethrowers and shit.


AGENT SIKES
And then?


SLANSKI
Then nothing. That’s it.


AGENT SIKES
(no response)


SLANSKI
There was an agent.


AGENT SIKES
Yes.


SLANSKI
Like you. Same badges.


AGENT SIKES
Yes.


SLANSKI
And that’s it. She ran the clean-up. Went inside, saw what she came to see I assume, pulled out the decon unit and left.


AGENT SIKES
Not quite like me.


SLANSKI
Listen, I really don’t need to know anything here. I’m not a great cop but I like the job, I like the guys, I like my family.


AGENT SIKES
Yes. I have pictures of your little girl. Would you like to see them?


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
I like this one the best. She looks adorable.


SLANSKI
(No response)


AGENT SIKES
The other agent wasn’t quite like me.


SLANSKI
Fuck.
I wasn’t trying anything. I was just being polite, I just opened the car door for christ’s sake.


AGENT SIKES
(no response)


SLANSKI
She smelled strange. Coppery. She brushed by me as she got in the car and it was like I had a penny
in my mouth just for a second.


AGENT SIKES
Anything else?


SLANSKI
(no response)


AGENT SIKES
Jeff, I can’t help you if you aren’t 100 percent—


SLANSKI
She was crying.


AGENT SIKES
But that wasn’t the strange part.


SLANSKI
And her tears were orange.


AGENT SIKES
That’s right, they were.


SLANSKI
I didn’t mean to see that!


AGENT SIKES
I know.

And, I’m sorry.

||||| END OF FILE |||||

[Jakester]

Traz, have you called (216) 333-1810 yet? That's the lead-in to this transcript.
Also, you can see video of "The Presence" at yearzero.nin.com (http://yearzero.nin.com)

[Queen Mae]

So Pretty Hate Machine with its industrial style is EMO?? And ur justifacation for it is because he says heart or love? You just described about every song there is. So all songs are emo? im just curious and confused.

Help me out here, bands that cry about that crap are EMO bands like Fall Out Boy, Good Charlette, Matchbox Romance, Panic! At the Disco. Its just weird cause i have taken shit for listening to him and have heard countless times about how he "cries and whines" but have never heard NIN referred to as EMO, thats a first to me.

And when he says he doesnt like all the bands that are coming out nowadays, i agree with him but at the same time that is his opinoin and try not to take it to heart.

oh dear, sensitive much?

Whenever I ask people what defines "EMO" I hear that it's guys who whine about their relationships. So... that would put PHM right up there. it's not because he references love or "heart." It's because of lines like "you're the one who taught me how to kiss."

I am not in any way trying to bash Trent. But, while I do not like any of the bands you listed above, I do not like the labeling of bands as "whiny guy music" (EMO). Because if EMO is qualified as music that guys listen to when they need to cut themselves then PHM qualifies in a MAJOR way.

I mean seriously... Ringfinger??

Obviously I like NIN, I started this thread didn't I? And I don't think that all NIN is EMO - for instance, the Downward Spiral is really novel in album form. It tells a specific story about human darkness etc... But, like Jake said EMO is the new Goth and whether Trent likes it or not (he has said in interviews that he does not), he helped usher in the Goth- era. Plus, Trent's look at the time of PHM was perfect EMO - skinny as a rail rocker in tight leather pants.

[Gentlemen Death]

You know what, i agree 100% with you. I loved PHM and i can def see what u are saying about it. From when it came out, if EMO was assaciated with music terminology back then, then i can see people calling this EMO. Of all his albums PHM, if i were to say it at all, would be the closest to EMO then his others, hands down

See to me i dont consider NIN goth at all. I went to see them in 2000 with The Fragility tour and last year With Teeth, and i saw alot of gothic peeps, i mean alot. And when i listen to his cds, like Broken, i get confused when people confuse that with gothic music i mean i can see HOW they could, but just not computing with me. Why just because its dark and deep does that mean its gothic? No, but i believe thats what its interpeted as. Goth music in my opinion is Cradle of Filth or even H.I.M. And u know what, even then i dont know if i would lable those as goth. H.I.M would be Love Metal and as for Cradle Of Filth, maybe speed metal.

As for EMO being the new goth, i could believe that. Alot of that music is pretty suggestive to wanting to hurt themselves or tear it apart. What throws me of about EMO being the new Goth, is that statement alone, EMO=Goth. I dont understand it and dont know if i ever will. When i was younger goth was the music like cradle of filth, nin, skinny puppy, marylin manson and now its being compared to taking back sunday, fall out boy, my chemical romance and so on.

Im curious to know what u think of what Goth music is, marylin manson, skinny puppy, cannibal corpse? I dont know.

[Jakester]

Isn't cannibal corpse more death metal?

No. Goth is Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Cure, His Name is Alive, This Mortal Coil. Then you toss in NIN, and Curve (Yeah, weird but I knew a lot of goths who were into them, but that may have more to do with Toni in black leather than anything else) and you start to have Goth fuse with industrial. Since, after PHM, Trent was the new Prince of Goth, and it's just a title he hasn't really shaken, because so many goth (and now emo) kids can identify with the lyrics.

[Gentlemen Death]

Damn Emo kids!!!! FIND UR OWN MUSIC AND DONT TAKE MINE!!!!!

[Jakester]

But they want to be individuals...just like everybody else!

[Gentlemen Death]

Ill crap in there breakfast, that'll give them something to cry about.

[Jakester]

new website: here ( http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/).
Click on the archive section at the bottom and prepare to be depressed. I almost cried.
Also, a new song is out. Find it and listen to it whilst reading the archive. Try not to kill yourself.

[Queen Mae]

I'm insanely over tired right now and i've been spending the past 40 minutes at these Year Zero websites and I think I need to go hide in my closet now.

[Gentlemen Death]

I keep on hearing u guys talk about these Year Zero stuff, what are u guys doin and what does it mean?

[Jakester]

Maybe if YOU would write in complete words, you would also learn to fucking READ entire posts. A link to everything you need to know is at the top of the thread.

[Minion]

Which is extremely stupid because Pretty Hate Machine is as emo as it gets.

Really... "you broke my heart, you won't marry me... wahhhh wahhhh wahhhh"

Oh...no, I didn't make myself clear...as always. It's not that I don't think Trent has his emo tendencies....but come on, you can listen to that stuff. The lyrics may sound Emo, but Trent can make it sound awesome. I simply hate the 'sound' of emo music these days, and the sound of the singers, and...well, the lack of originality it has generated. I'm suspecting that is where Trent is coming from, especially considering the experimental sound of the new album....not neccessarily the subject matter (if being emo is simply whining about forlorn love...well, everyone is emo) but the sound of it.

Minion: Does not recommend listening to the song "Right Where It Belongs" when drunk....you'll start questioning WAY too much.

[Jakester]

Try listening to it in 5.1 while drunk. Gaaah!

[Gentlemen Death]

Jakester, i dont know if you have a stick up youre ass but last time I checked I was just asking a simple question. Yeah, maybe i could have looked at the other pages but i did not, so whats the big deal with the CAPITALIZE words? Would you like to talk about it, does Something I Can Never Have make you cry? Have a nice day!:)

[Jakester]

I have a stick up "you are" ass? Dude, if English isn't your first language, I'll give it a pass, but if English is your first language, then learn to write it.

So...you want us to answer a question that has already been answered earlier in a thread that is ONE PAGE?! (It's a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering.)

I always have a stick up my ass. It's there for fun.

[Gentlemen Death]

i nevra notic thest i spalled thangs rong...ure maen.

[Cncrman]

Don't let him ruffle your feathers Swansong. Jake is our lovable yet impish rogue who likes to knock the new kids around for abuses to the English language or login in general.

As for Year Zero, I just heard about this and am way behind. Mae, mind sending some selections my way or helping me find them online. I love me some NIN and was actually listening to all that I have on my iPod when I checked the web and noticed Y.Z.

Looks like Trent has a thing for dystopian literature.

[Jakester]

CSM, like I told the English impaired, Mae has a link to everything you want to know. http://www.ninwiki.com is your one stop shop.

For up-to-the-minute news and info, check http://www.echoingthesound.org and go to the forums. Both sites will give links to all of the songs, websites, and other mp3s that have been discovered to date. It's a freaky ride.

Swanny, yes, I am mean. I tried being nice in early December, and the users rebelled.

[Cncrman]

But...but...she offered them freely:

I have all of the "leaked" tracks if anyone wants them just pm me.

And I'm lazy. I want songs downloaded to my iPod for me. Where can a lazy, lazy man like me turn in this world of RTFM?

[Queen Mae]

I think we need a board wide rule that you are required to read the first post of each thread, at least.

[Gentlemen Death]

I disagree.:Tongue:

[Cncrman]

This Year Zero stuff seems very interesting.

Little frustrating because I was writing a story revolving around a totalitarian US government in the near future. Dammit Trent, get outta my head!

Currently listening to the Mp3's while I work.

[Jakester]

New website cropped up last night. It would seem that some guys working on quantum theory sent these websites back in time in hopes of changing their present, our future.

Apparently, there's some scientific possibility for this as Hawking said the most likely thing that could be sent back in time would be a data stream. Hit the wiki or echoingthesound.org for the links. No new song yet...

[Queen Mae]

Damn, I was hoping for a new song on my birthday - all I get is another website.

[Jakester]

We've been getting a song a week, right? We'll see if we get any more. We've gotten 4 so far. That's 1/4 of the album!

[Cncrman]

You think NIN would go so far as to release the whole album one song at a time?

[Gentlemen Death]

I personally, like waiting untill the album comes out to even hear one of the songs. But with NIN i listened to 'Survivalism' and 'Violent Heart' which were both decent. I never got into the free downloading or the 'slips' of the song that the Artist never let 'slip'.

I always enjoyed the waiting, like waiting for christmas or even your birthday. I am not saying that NIN has done any of this and i am not saying is doing it.

I checked out the YearZero stuff and honestly, i do not really care for the whole conspiracy or whatever it is. Just give me the album and i will determine what the songs mean for me. Although, the yearzero stuff is pretty crazy.

[Minion]

You think NIN would go so far as to release the whole album one song at a time?

Doubtful the whole album, but you never know...it's definitely experimental and releasing the album like some sort of leaked information to go along with the game would be cool.

Didn't Trent say that he's been working on another album that'll be released a year later as well? I swore I heard that on the radio the other day...

Minion: We have a saying in the radio business: "We're in the radio business and if you saying something on the radio, people will listen!"

[Jakester]

GD, the "leaks" aren't really leaks. The songs are being legitimately released as part of the game. At this point, I'd say that the understanding of the world of the game is integral to the understanding and real appreciation of the album. I expect that it will be able to stand on its own merits, but when you know the story behind it, you will be able to better appreciate it.

Travis, yeah...Part one is Year Zero, and I believe the next album will be a thematic continuation of YZ. And when that's out, apparently With Teeth willl make sense, too.

[Gentlemen Death]

I remember when I went to see them last year, after one of his songs he sayed that he was done touring and writing stuff for awhile but he would be back at some point.....what a 'terrible lie'.

And when i said leaks, i did not necesarily mean him but alot of other bands that do that.

[Jakester]

Weird. I remember him saying that there would be much less time between With Teeth and the next album (now Year Zero).

KROQ played a new song, "The Beginning of the End," yesterday. Don't know when/if it'll turn up on a USB drive, though.

[Queen Mae]

Travis, yeah...Part one is Year Zero, and I believe the next album will be a thematic continuation of YZ. And when that's out, apparently With Teeth willl make sense, too.

I've been wondering this.... "The Hand that Feeds" sound like it would fit in really well with the Year Zero concept... and I always figured that "Only" was about God, which also ties in.

[creamygnome]

He has a new album? Is it as crappy as the last one?

[Jakester]

Uh...if by "crappy," you mean "really damn good," then I expect it'll be even better based on what I've heard so far.

BTW, there's an mp3 of the kroq broadcast of "The Beginning of the End" out on the net. It's really good.

[vomder]

when is this album coming out I can't wait, and I like the album cover.

[Queen Mae]

For f*ck's sakes people!!! Read the thread before you post in it!!

[Minion]

http://yearzero.nin.com/listen/

Check it yo! Listening parties for the new album!
Oh what's this...
Salt Lake City is the first one on the list?
This Sunday!!
At the god damned Avalon Community Church (http://www.theavalontheater.com/) too!

I'll let you know how it is on Monday...

Minion: For once, the Mormons can't stop my fun!

[Queen Mae]

It's at a Church???

ohhh, I don't have to work on March 13th or 14th... Knitting Factory here I come!

[Cncrman]

Once again, no love for Portland. People always skip over us. The bastard step child of the Pacific Northwest.

[Minion]

Ughh....getting into this thing is going to be a bitch. Except for standing outside the place for, at the very least, 4-5 hours in advance, it's going to be luck alone. The local radio station (X96 (http://www.x96.com)) is giving away wristbands to get into the show, so hopefully I can score one...if not, well hell...I might be screwed. The Avalon doesn't hold that many folks, and it's first come first serve.

Perhaps I can just stalk the morning show folks (Radio From Hell (http://www.x96.com/12605TIME/djs/rfh.asp)) and get one off of them....


As for the album itself...hell, I'm damn impressed. So far I'm addicted to "Me, I'm Not". It never leaves the playlist...something about that chorus and the "Hey, can we stop.....me, I'm not" that just freaks me the hell out.

Minion: And come on...."Me, I'm Not" has a noise solo at end...how wicked is that?

[Gentlemen Death]

Once again, no love for Portland. People always skip over us. The bastard step child of the Pacific Northwest.

I just had to say that the post made me laugh my ass off.

[Trazalca]

This just about creeped me out.

Screaming Phone Call (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Ju9RApVLc)

[Minion]

Jee
Zuss
Christ!

No, I didn't make it...but not for lack of trying. There are a LOT of NIN fans in SLC and everyone knew about this listening party. Why? Because the damned radio stations (like three of them...one of which I didn't even realize played NIN) announced it ahead of time and were giving out wristbands to get in. You basically had to win a wristband from the station to get in.

You know it's bad news when you arrive 3 hours early and there is already a line around the building, people screaming to get in, and absolute mayhem.

Not cool man...

Minion: Has heard good things about the album though.

[Jakester]

new sites....the Survivalism video (check my profile on the main site)....for all the latest, check out http://www.echoinghtesound.org and tell them Jake sent you. I haven't registered there and no one knows me, but tell 'em anyway.

[Gentlemen Death]

I recently went to the listening party in San Francisco on 11th st.( weird st. by the way, can not explain it, just had to have been there at night) and i do not know if it was the fact that everyone was there for NIN, but this CD kicked major ass and all the people there enjoyed it and i did not hear one mixed review about it.

I cant believe all the rare shit that they had when i walked in through the doors. They had NIN stuff i havent seen before and stuff from there Downward Spiral tour and more. I can not wait to see him on tour this year and hopefully he grew some hair back...that was weird to see him like that; was not used to it.

[Jakester]

He's been all ripped and had short hair for a while. I think he looks great.

[Minion]

Just because I'm sucked into this now...
You can listen to the whole album now on:
http://yearzero.nin.com/

Minion: Check out "Capital G"....god damn brilliant.

[colmatrix]

Listening to it at their site...NIN wails, as always. :D hyperpower!

[Jakester]

Read the blog (http://gracetheteacher.net). It's fucking sad.

[Cncrman]

So...Year Zero was leaked for like a day or two??

I was able to download Hyperpower but had to wait 8 mins to get the next song and never made it back. I check today, and it's all gone.

Damn...Missed out.

[Jakester]

Dude...it's there. http://yearzero.nin.com and then click on 'listen to Year Zero" at the top of the page. It's da shiznit, especially "Capital g." Okay...especially the entire frigging album. Wow.

[Cncrman]

Dude...it's there. http://yearzero.nin.com and then click on 'listen to Year Zero" at the top of the page. It's da shiznit, especially "Capital g." Okay...especially the entire frigging album. Wow.

Sweetcheeks, get the c0ck out of your ears and listen. I said "download" as in to keep, to cherish, to burn on CD and rub over my body. I've listened to the streaming version online already several times. Which I might add was freaking awesome.

It just happens that there was a day I checked ninwiki and each song had a link to allow for download. I'm sure it wasn't official (who knows, maybe it was) but the links and any comments regarding it have disappeared.

[Queen Mae]

Rub all over your body? Will you have an Oompah perform this service for you?

[Jakester]

OIC. Yeah, sorry about the dick in ear thing. It's a fetish.

There were links to...er..4 songs. While you'll never hear that they were officially leaked, the fact that USB drives would miraculously appear in restrooms during concerts with various songs (and in one case, the "Survivalism" video) encoded at 320kbps, one would think they had to come from someone with connections. In fact, they were part of the ARG, and the USB drives also had other info hidden by various means on them to help move the game along.

BTW, one more week and we'll have the shibby thermachromed CD in our grubby little hands.

[Minion]

Holy....okay, NIN is now just...yeah, they are above all artists. I'm sorry, but anyone who puts on an underground concert for ~60 people and stages it being raided by SWAT.

Yeah, they kick ass.

Don't trust me? Watch it here:
http://www.opensourceresistance.net/

Minion: Starts around 30 minutes or so.

[Jakester]

Yeah, that's just amazingly cool.
What do you think of the CD, the package, and all of the snazzy hidden stuff?
The CD trick is AWESOME!

[Gentlemen Death]

What hidden stuff??

[Gentlemen Death]

Gonna Make It Go Faster, Faster
Countdown To The End

[Minion]

Yeah, that's just amazingly cool.
What do you think of the CD, the package, and all of the snazzy hidden stuff?
The CD trick is AWESOME!
I loved that I bought the CD between classes one day, and as I was reading the liner notes this girl next to me pick it up, opened it and must have touched the CD itself. The thermochrome activated and she freaked the hell out!

I'm scanning the big mural of the desolate future into my computer, doing a little fixing up, and turning it into a poster for my apartment.

Minon: Can't believe all the crazy crap...he also wishes he lived in L.A. and got to see the secret concert.

[Jakester]

Godamn, that whole experience sounded AWESOME! At least we can relive it through AIR!

Uh...GD...touch the CD. Play it for a while and look at it. The binary actually means something. Decode it.

Oh, you could also read from the beginning of the thread!

[Gentlemen Death]

HEHE, thanks jakester.
I noticed what happens when you touch the cd, which is fucking awesome. As for all the little decoding, i am not to sure about that.

I know that in each song that is written down in the booklet, that there is a letter that is highlighted in red, is that what you mean? Also that each page has hidden #s that i have not quite figuered out yet, any insight to that?

[Jakester]

anotherversionofthetruth.com

[Gentlemen Death]

Man, that is some deep shit! Listened to all the audio files they had on there(gameover,inahurry, etc.) some really weird shit, kinda creepy.

Now i also got the link to bethehammer.net. That one was a little more weird. Talking about going out and killng people, and blowing up military gyms and communications arays.

The funny thing is, is that Trent better be careful of what he puts up on the web here, the government is going to get ahold of it and try and shut him down, and say he was avacating violence.

What is your take on this???

[Jakester]

That's all old stuff, too. There's the audio (also old) of a government led massacre at an underground club, and what they're putting in the water...there's lots of freaky shit. It's very well done, and some of the stories are really moving.

Go to http://www.freerebelart.com and follow the directions.

[Minion]

Just for people who want to catch up, there is now a site that acts as a sort of compilation site: http://www.exhibit24.net/

Minion: Is branded on the lists. He is now part of the problem.

[Gentlemen Death]

This is some really deep shit. So what are your guys take on all of this. I mean i know it is all fake, but it certainly makes you think.

As for the new cd, freaking awesome. Everytime i listen to a different song i find new stuff in it, and that just makes the whole experience better. Trent really outdid himself this time. Crazy shit!