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The next album from Nine Inch Nails isn't due until May, but Mac users can get a preview by downloading a track from their upcoming album for free from their website.

That sounds quite common, doesn't it? Isn't everybody making tracks available on their websites now? Usually it's a fuzzy low-res version of the same boring single that's already on the radio and MTV and that crud is somehow intended to tempt you into buying the whole album, right? Or you have to jump through hoops, signing up for a mailing list and registering for a bogus Yahoo! or Sony music promo only to find that the DRM makes it impossible to listen to it on your computer.

Well, this time it's a high quality file created from the original Digidesign ProTools tracks and exported to Apple's GarageBand. NIN fans who are also musicians can listen to the original, burn it, re-mix it themselves and record their own jams with it.

That's kind of cool.