I continue to be more and more impressed with BitTorrent…it’s the Napster of the 21st century; the guy who wrote it is a friggin’ genius IMO.

It took more than a week to finally finish downloading, but I now have the entire NIN discography (Halo 1–18, Halo 18+, and all non-Halos).  The cool thing is that they were all linked to from a single torrent file...one click, a ton of patience, and I was done.  It’s worth mentioning that Halo 18+ has all the Halo 18 songs as .ac3 files (which neither WinAmp nor WMP support natively, but the crappy Creative Music Player that came with my soundcard does…unfortunately it locks up my system from time to time playing ac3 files.  What a piece of shit).  For those of you not familiar with the ac3 format, it’s basically a 5.1 format for music…and it sounds unbelievable if you’ve got the hardware to play it.  I had never heard an ac3 file until yesterday, and I was completely blown away…mp3’s just aren’t gonna cut it anymore for me.  I also had forgotten how much I really enjoy NIN’s music…brought back a ton of memories.

I’m a huge Trent Reznor fan…have been since the days of Pretty Hate Machine (aka Halo 1).  He continues to be a frontrunner and a pioneer in his musical realm…for Halo 18 he released all the files so that fans could make their own remixes (too bad it was Macintosh only), which is pretty incredible.  He’s about as talented as they come, and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.

Sidenote:  I had Halo 1–8 in high school, but during a financial drought around age 19 I sold them all (along with a shedload of other CD’s), which is why I felt the need to “reobtain” them.  To be honest, I don’t think Trent would mind too much (unlike these assholes whom I’ve lost all respect for).  On another sidenote, what’s wrong with this picture (well, besides the fact that it’s erroring out right now)?  Also, has anyone seen the video for “The Hand That Feeds?”  It’s available for download from the NIN website, but again it’s Mac only (it’s pretty apparent where Trent’s computer loyalties are)…which is unfortunate because the video is amazing and I want to see it again (can’t find a torrent for a Windows version).