Trent Reznor doesn't feel anything at all. He makes that painfully clear on "1,000,000," the second track (it immediately follows an instrumental called "999,999") on The Slip, the new Nine Inch Nails album that became available online yesterday. And Reznor so wants you to share his undying emptiness that he's making the hard-rocking Slip available for absolutely no money on his website, Nin.com. No pay as you wish. No cover charge of $5 - which is what it cost to get the instrumental album Ghosts, I-IV, which Reznor released online in March, and was the suggested price tag when Saul Williams' Reznor-produced The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust came out last year. Just "thank you to our fans for your continued support," and "this one's on me," as Reznor put it on Nin.com, as if he were buying you a musical beer, filling up your glass with metal-edged guitars and synthesized rage. Well thanks, Trent, you're a swell guy. NIN is out on tour this summer, playing the Wachovia Center on Aug. 29. The Slip will come out on CD and vinyl in July. We'll see if it sells.
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