went out and bought it yesterday, sounds good. Still listening trying to wrap my brain around the new mixes, takes a bit to get used to it. I'm glad you were careful with the new master, I've been disappointed by some remasters in the past, the new Pantera - Cowboys From Hell remaster sucks (the hi-hats and cybals are super loud now), they screwed up some of the ozzy remasters a few years back. They need to be more careful and realize that people only want slight good enhancements to there favorate albums, approach like a surgeon not a construction worker. Good job trent & Tom. I don't think any of your other albums need remastering, am looking forward to the Fragile Reissue, But I assume your just going to put it in surround sound like spiral (I'm glad you didn't change the actual stereo mix or master of that one). Mostly I'd like to get the bonus tracks, extra stuff that didn't make it to the album. I was hoping for some of that stuff on PHM, that's the only dissapointment, wish you could have put a live version of Now I'm Nothing/Terrible Lie as a bonus track or something, glad you put Get down make love onto the end though, I always thought that was a great one.

got it yesterday at borders. sounds great. crisp and clear, but still has warmth. the funny thing is I had been listening to my old tvt cassette in my car on sunday because the old cd release sounded so tinny. so again thanks for taking the time to reproduce the warmth. is there any chance you are going to release multitracks? and is there any chance that broken will get this kind of treatment?

I finally got mine!!!! I went to a Best Buy in Orlando and I saw two empty rows meant for PHM. I asked Mr. Best Buy dude if it already sold out or something and he said the computer shows they still had 20. He went to look for it and came back saying he can't find it. That was it. WTF? I went to the closest Target and they didn't know what I was talking about. I finally went to the Best Buy in Melbourne and they had all of them front row centered. There is a difference. The sound is amazing. Nostalgic. Epic. As it was back in the day. It is so funny to see the two PHM cd's I have owned through the years. All scraped up and sun worn and beaten. This will be be spared the torcher because I am a little less drunk and more mature than them daze. Awesome Mr. Reznor. Worth the quest I went through today.

Miles traveled in search of PHM RDX - 80+

Stores traveled to in search of PHM RDX - 4

Money spent on said cd - $7.99

Enjoying the cd that started my downward spiral into NIN in luscious remastered sound - priceless

votiVe posted:
"Are we going to call it PHMR? or PHM2? MASTER PHM --or something else? PHM Jr? hehehe"

Sheepdean replied:
Halo 2-DE
Halo 2-V - or Halo 2-VDE

The CD version has this as a halo number: it's Halo-02R

I went to Best Buy on lunchbreak yesterday just to touch it! It was a beautiful moment. Also they had like 20 of them for the correct price of $7.99.

(Why didn't I get it, you ask? I'm checking my local music store tonight for it like Trent instructed). I just want Something I can almost have.



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Will be looking for a copy tomorrow, have still got some birthday money left over. Thanks, Mr. Reznor, for the lovely birthday present!!

I tried to download the mp3's from Amazon.co.uk today (I live in Greece, which makes ordering from anywhere else difficult) - Geographical restrictions prevent me from downloading them (buying anything from amazon.com can lead to wait times of over 17 weeks for stuff to reach Greece, so this is a no-go). This means that I have only three options:

1 - To pre-order the CD (for 14 UKP / 16.5 Euro / $22 USD - seriously guys, a 3x markup for foreign buyers? It's only $7 on amazon.com!!) and wait for the music (as amazon.co.uk don't yet have the CD for sale).
2 - To pre-order the CD and download the digital versions via torrent (or somesuch)
3 - To not spend any money and download the music via torrent only

I find this sort of digital restrictions management deplorable. It's one of the things which drives fans into visiting torrent sites. What happened to Trent offering downloads & other stuff directly from his site?


/rant

AN AWESOME AMOUNT OF AWESOME AWESOMENESS AWE

martinb99 posted:

I tried to download the mp3's from Amazon.co.uk today (I live in Greece, which makes ordering from anywhere else difficult) - Geographical restrictions prevent me from downloading them (buying anything from amazon.com can lead to wait times of over 17 weeks for stuff to reach Greece, so this is a no-go). This means that I have only three options:

1 - To pre-order the CD (for 14 UKP / 16.5 Euro / $22 USD - seriously guys, a 3x markup for foreign buyers? It's only $7 on amazon.com!!) and wait for the music (as amazon.co.uk don't yet have the CD for sale).
2 - To pre-order the CD and download the digital versions via torrent (or somesuch)
3 - To not spend any money and download the music via torrent only

I find this sort of digital restrictions management deplorable. It's one of the things which drives fans into visiting torrent sites. What happened to Trent offering downloads & other stuff directly from his site?


/rant

Trent is not allowed to sell it himself as Null doesn't own it. Null was allowed to help out, but Trent's deal with TVT was awful and left him with little rights, and though Bicycle are an awesome company, they spent a lot of money on getting this, so they're not just going to give it up.
Have you tried a proxy server? I have some friends in Greece who hide their IP as british when they want to buy from Amazon, and it works fine.

Oh, and buy physical from Amazon.com. They ship to Greece ($2.49 shipping costs) and it's much cheaper.

Shark__ posted:

So I popped the CD into my PC's drive and the first track was labeled as "?A??ht.?\Z??" rather than "Head Like A Hole". Any explanation?

Have you ever put a copy of the Broken EP into your computer drive? It comes up with some seriously weird shit!

I didn't think that it was possible to love NIN any more than i do now, i was wrong. Thank you for this. Love you MR Reznor.

paranoiapanoramic posted:

i just went on prettyhatemachine.com and grabbed all the wallpapers, (even the hidden one) ...

Wait, what hidden one??? Please help me out!!

+1 on everything everyone is saying about this album. It sounds great. I'm a total nerd so I set up a play list to listen to each track in order; first the original and then the new. The difference is amazing.

One question: why did you lose the audio sample from 'Midnight Express' from 'Sanctified'? IP issues??

seasonsinthesky posted:

^ the "hidden" one is the second iPhone wallpaper. Rob Sheridan didn't like how it looked on his phone, so he left it as an "easter egg."

worst.
hidden thing.
ever.

but seriously, thanks.

i got my physical copy of this today thinking how could PHM get any better but oh my god this is awesome. i noticed the difference about 30s into head like a hole (i have listened to this album about 37 million times since i got it in 92 so i know it inside out).

i'm especially digging the background vocals at the end of terrible lie being pushed a bit further forward "i need someone to hold on to" and something i can never have is truly sublime.

well done trent, this release just further proves what passion and amount of detail you have for music.

i'd like to ask one question (if anyone is listening, and this is not a critisiscm in anyway i'd just like to know) with this amount of time and care being spent on such a great piece of music why no flac release?



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This is my first time hearing Get Down, Make Love. I'm loving it.

This remaster turns me on.