Nine Inch Nails--Wish

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has some advice for musicians--drop your labels.

This is Trent's spot on analysis of the situation young musicians find themselves in when they sign with a label:

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the f**k made that rule? Oh! The record labels made it because artists are dumb and they'll sign anything' - like I did. When we found out we'd been released (from their recording contract) it was like, 'Thank God!'. But 20 minutes later it was, 'Uh-oh, now what are we going to do?' It was incredibly liberating, and it was terrifying.

Here's Trent and company playing "Wish" at Woodstock '94.