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DeePee posted:I received an e-mail that said "Ticket Sales Resume Thursday, May 24, at 10AM PST" It was 10am local time. I actually managed to get seats. I got two seats, not even close to being together and they both are terrible seats, but I got them.
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glam rock hamhock posted:It was 10am local time. gently caress. My local time is EST. No idea why my e-mail said PST.
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May 24, 2018 15:39
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glam rock hamhock posted:It was 10am local time. How much you selling them for
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May 24, 2018 15:40
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I keep looking because I'm dumb (so dumb I almost grabbed a seat that was better than the one I had knowing I could just sell the other one) but at least in boston there are still sporadic seats left.
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May 24, 2018 15:59
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I was trying to buy tickets. The clock went to zero. A screen came up saying "Tickets are about to become available...sit tight". Then when I could finally click Get Tickets, they were sold out. gently caress all this. Isn't there a way they can prevent bots from buying up tickets?
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May 24, 2018 16:03
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Keep trying. Tickets keep going in and out of being on sale. I now feel bad because not only could I have picked a better seat for me, I certainly could have picked a better seat for my friend who is gonna be stuck in the nosebleeds.
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May 24, 2018 16:11
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I couldn't get one for either Boston show myself. My wife not only got one, accidentally backed out and lost it, and then got another one. So i'll at least be at the Friday show.
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May 24, 2018 16:27
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DeePee posted:gently caress. My local time is EST. No idea why my e-mail said PST. Because Trent is dumb sometimes. Despite what I said last page, I went ahead and tried to buy tickets because I'm a dumb consumer baby who's afraid this is the last time I'll ever be able to see him. But because the email said loving PST, I didn't get any tickets (I had the Thursday show, the last available Chicago show, in my cart but when I tried it failed and now whelp they're gone). Oh well. Riot Fest goes on presale tonight so maybe I'll just see a ton of bands for the same price. The cynic in me is wondering if Trent purposely put PST on all the emails so he could be like "see what a shitshow that was?!" Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 24, 2018 |
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May 24, 2018 17:01
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I was able to check for NIN tickets for both Detroit shows at 11:30 EST and there were plenty of tickets still available. Back of the upper balcony is $92. No thanks. For the same price, I had APC seats at the middle of the floor and there was no pretension about "bringing people together" or 4+ hour lines.
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STONE COLD 64 posted:its weird to see how old man yells at cloud hes being considering the buildup to year zero had all sorts of cool poo poo like finding usb drives in seedy concert hall bathrooms that had secret tracks on them to the arg that led to a secret meetup in a parking lot in la where people who figured out the arg and made it there in time got munition crates full of nin swag and a nin burner phone that would ring about a week later and just tell the holder of the phone an address, where they would be collected via bus and brought to a secret concert that was ended by a swat team raid juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust when they were going to play the perfect drug. yep basically the year zero stuff was certainly a lot more interesting than the album ended up being that fake FBI raid or whatever was legit cool
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May 24, 2018 23:47
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Year Zero is still legit the best ARG that's ever been attempted.
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May 25, 2018 00:26
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Year zero is a top tier album
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Year zero is a top tier album
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May 25, 2018 01:47
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Year Zero remixed is also an extremely good album the Great Destroyer remix 
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May 25, 2018 02:18
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Agreed, YZ really holds up, both musically and thematically. It was kind of a movie score and NIN album rolled into one.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah, I've heard a lot of people write NIN off as not being good anymore after a certain point (post-Fragile I guess?), but almost all of those people haven't even listened to Year Zero. It's seriously one of their best albums and it's so loving shortsighted to write them off entirely without hearing that album. nin as great since year zero, an album i'd argue is better than THTF. the slip was okay, i think people were higher on it because it was free, ghosts was amazing, even beyond the marketing for the price and im kinda surprised we haven't gotten another instrumental album, hes marks was alright not a killer, i kinda dig the last couple EPs but in a way similar to the slip and not as much as Year Zero or even hesitation marks.
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I didn't like Year Zero much and for the record here are the rest of my thoughts on 9" Nails PHM - stone classic, one of the best pop albums of the 80s, like a white industrial Prince Broken - stone classic Fixed - even better than Broken TDS - good, was great when i was an angry 19 year old, is less great now The Fragile - boring, bad, and boring. can't even remember most of the songs on it. With Teeth - boring and terrible but i did like the first and last songs alright Year Zero - eh, 'sallright. "Capital G" is really good. Ghosts - totally awesome The Slip - it's bad Hesitation Marks - it's REALLY bad sidenote, hey remember around 2003 when Pretty Hate Machine was actually out of print and hard to find?
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May 25, 2018 03:10
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precision posted:I didn't like Year Zero much and for the record here are the rest of my thoughts on 9" Nails I don't even really count Ghosts. There's a lot of great material on there, don't get me wrong, but I'd sooner lump it in with Trent and Atticus' soundtrack work than call it a proper Nine Inch Nails album.
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May 25, 2018 03:16
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hughesta posted:Hesitation Marks is really great i liked the instrumental track at the end a lot. it was an album that grew on me but it still is further in the back for my NIN queue
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hughesta posted:Hesitation Marks is really great
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I think Hesitation Marks is about as good of a NIN album as can be reasonably expected at this point in Trent's life. It's good that it's not the nihilistic angry angst of his earlier stuff but instead is an album about his struggle to stay relevant, his insecurities, the happiness he's managed to find and what he's been through to get there and the fear that it could all fall apart at any second.
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glam rock hamhock posted:I think Hesitation Marks is about as good of a NIN album as can be reasonably expected at this point in Trent's life. It's good that it's not the nihilistic angry angst of his earlier stuff but instead is an album about his struggle to stay relevant, his insecurities, the happiness he's managed to find and what he's been through to get there and the fear that it could all fall apart at any second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWe_4AaH8Y Also, I don't think they've played that song once live. I'm not sure why. Seems like one that would be fairly easy for them to pull off live (except for some of the high notes Trent would have to hit, though I imagine he could just sing them in a different octave or get Robin to sing them or something) and it looks like they've played everything else from that album live: 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:lmao would you even still consider yourself a fan of theirs if the last album you really liked came out 20+ years ago? i said Year Zero was "alright", meaning "not bad". it's not great but it's totally listenable. but i mean, i don't really want to take this thread down the "no true NIN fan" route
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Saying an album is "alright" and "not great but it's listenable" doesn't make me think you enjoyed it. I'm just saying, would you still consider yourself a Nine Inch Nails fan if you only really enjoyed the first few years of their career and everything from the mid-90s to the present has felt middling at best to you (except for an instrumental album that much more closely resembles a film score than a Nine Inch Nails album)?
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May 25, 2018 05:12
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Everything was sound checked and you could hear it be played live in the background in a YouTube video/documentary thing they did for the beginning of that tour
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Trent said he got tired of Everything, something to the effect of "it's become an irritant to me", which is why they ended up not playing it.
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extradite THIS! posted:Trent said he got tired of Everything, something to the effect of "it's become an irritant to me", which is why they ended up not playing it. "There were a few moments of this album where I expected eyebrows to raise," Reznor says. "But that actually was not one of them. To me, 'Everything' is a descendant of Fear and Joy Division and New Order. Somehow, that song has become representative of this as my 'happy album,' although I don't hear it as such. It's certainly not meant to make you feel like, 'Look at how great everything is!' But it seems to be the shocking moment of the record. We've not played it onstage, only in rehearsals. It's become an irritant to me."[4]
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Am I remembering incorrectly or didn't Trent write Everything as a song that was supposed to appear on a greatest hits compilation that ended up never coming out?
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Honestly the actual YZ ARG was not that far off in terms of how elaborate it was. Nah, the songs were in fact right on the flash drives. I remember being a member of ETS during the ARG and there were frantic riots of "JUST USE MEDIAFIRE HOLY gently caress" every time someone posted "guys i think i found the usb drive but idk how internet works" There was a spectrograph image of the Presence at the end of My Violent Heart when it got found, which was moved to the end of The Warning on the actual album. I think the craziest moment of that ARG was when a website went up offering Capital G as a free download, which confused everybody because the album was already out - but that version on the website turned out to be one with an inverted waveform, and stacking it against the audio file for the song from the actual album eliminated all the noise except a creepy voice saying the name of a new website. I wanna say it was... Red Horse Vector?
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Am I remembering incorrectly or didn't Trent write Everything as a song that was supposed to appear on a greatest hits compilation that ended up never coming out? Yes as well as Satellite, in the process of composing/recording those songs, he started work on a whole new album and it became Hesitation Marks.
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Pirate Jet posted:I think the craziest moment of that ARG was when a website went up offering Capital G as a free download, which confused everybody because the album was already out - but that version on the website turned out to be one with an inverted waveform, and stacking it against the audio file for the song from the actual album eliminated all the noise except a creepy voice saying the name of a new website. I wanna say it was... Red Horse Vector? That might be true, but it is 100% true that if you convert the album version of The Great Destroyer at about 2:23 from stereo to mono, you can hear someone say Red Horse Vector.
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RIP the Year Zero HBO show that never was  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzbuef_lLa0
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Saying an album is "alright" and "not great but it's listenable" doesn't make me think you enjoyed it. i guess i just don't understand how it matters, like am i not allowed to post or what like it literally doesn't matter if i'm "officially" a NIN fan, i have liked many things the man has done, and so i continue to be interested in his career. like i would definitely not say someone isn't a smashing pumpkins fan if all they like is the first 3 or 4 records
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Year Zero was the last thing NIN did that I /really/ liked as a whole project, at least before Add Violence came out. In terms of Post-Fragile, I now love With Teeth and Year Zero fully, everything else has good moments but I don't rate them too highly overall. Add Violence is really great though, first one in a while where I go back to it regularly because I want to listen to it, not because I'm hoping "this time I might like it more".
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precision posted:i guess i just don't understand how it matters, like am i not allowed to post or what But yeah, I don't know. There are several bands who used to release material that I loved but I fell off with them ages ago and wouldn't really consider myself a fan of theirs now because I'm either completely unfamiliar with the newer material they've been releasing or I've heard it and don't like it. Maybe I'm just cranky. That's quite possible, actually haha
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May 25, 2018 10:28
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I will say With Teeth is a lot better in retrospect now that we've also gotten several dark, brooding, electronic-ish albums to scratch that itch. It's still lower-tier but I can appreciate it more knowing that it was a one-off. TR is one of the best producers around and it's interesting hearing him do a rock record -- sounds amazing for what it is.STONE COLD 64 posted:ghosts was amazing, even beyond the marketing for the price and im kinda surprised we haven't gotten another instrumental album Well he's done like a hundred movie soundtracks since then, which are pretty much the same thing. It's just classier to call it "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross" although maybe now that Atticus is an official member they'll actually file the soundtracks under NIN.
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I like all the albums but I think With Teeth needs more respect, it’s better than The Slip imo.
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I honestly like ALL of his albums in different ways. I can't really say I think one is the worst of the bunch because they all scratch a slightly different itch. That being said, Year Zero is amazing and I'm surprised there are NIN fans that disagree. I think The Slip is pretty great too. It just lags a little in the second half. Demon Seed is one of my favorites.
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