After six years, the founder of Reflecting in the Chrome, Ryan J., finally archived audio from every Nine Inch Nails show since 1988. According to Radio.com, the free torrent contains audio from 575 concerts that amounts to 527 GB. That's going to require a hefty hard drive, Ryan said, and he recommends some extra space for updates.
Because of the size of the drive, the download time is pretty long. Fans who don't want to wait can just send their hard drive to Ryan and he will load it manually and send it back. Talk about a sweet Christmas present.
"The NIN Drive began in late 2008 during the massive Lights in the Sky tour," the website reads. "The idea was to compile a single database of all available NIN live audio sources onto an external hard drive, each of the lowest generation and with the most information possible. This project exists due to the efforts of multitudes of collectors and tapers."
Fans can contribute their recordings to the project as well. Ryan plans to archive video next.
Nine Inch Nails released their eighth studio effort, Hesitation Marks, last year. It hit number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Rock Albums charts. The record was met with positive reviews.
"But Hesitation Marks is an immediate reason to light the black candles," Rolling Stone wrote. "Reznor's first NIN album in five years, it is one of his best, combining the textural exploration on the 1999 double CD The Fragile, and the tighter fury of his 1994 master blast, The Downward Spiral. There is blood here: Hesitation Marks refers to the preliminary wounds made during a suicide attempt. There is deliverance, too. You can dance to much of this terror, all the way to the brink and back."
