Industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails has wasted no time releasing its first album since becoming a free agent last October.

The Trent Reznor-led combo started selling an instrumental album, "Ghosts I-IV," on its Web site, link [www.nin.com,] Sunday. Fans can receive the first nine songs from the 36-track project for free, or can pay $5 for the entire digital album.

There are several other ordering options, each of which comes with immediate access to the album in digital form.

The standard doubl-CD set is retailing for $10, and will reach stores on April 8. A $70 deluxe edition and a $300 autographed version with ship May 1.

After Nine Inch Mails' contract with Interscope expired, the label released a remix album, "Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D." The band's last studio release, "Year Zero," debuted at No. 2 on the U.S. album charts last April.

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I've been listening to Ghosts I. It's good, but I'd say it's strictly for NIN fans. It's not very accessible.


"TUFF! EVOLVE FASTER NEXT TIME AND YOU WILL BE THE ONE WITH THE SPEAR!" -doubtingthomas

I haven't had the chance to get near my home computer yet
Hopefully tomorrow night I can go straight home after work and it won't be occupied so I can download this baby

I'm a big NIN fan
Seen him lives 3 times, was even at the show here at Madison Sq Garden where Manson had come on stage for the last two songs.

I quite like it...
It's good for background music of course, it's not the sort of thing I can listen to and really enjoy, cos it is just a bunch of instrumentals without track names.