Back in 2005, Rykodisc re-released Nine Inch Nails’ debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, which had been effectively out of print for 8 years while in the hands of TVT, the first record label to sign Trent Reznor. Now the record is still unavailable via legal digital outlets (it may even be out of print again), but all that is about to change…
Billboard.biz reports that L.A. publishing firm Bicycle Music has acquired 700 masters (about 80 albums) from the Prudential Securities Credit Corp, which had previously bought the collection from TVT. Included in the deal are the Pretty Hate Machine master tapes, as well as “co-publishing rights to Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails catalog includ[ing] the songs from… Pretty Hate Machine.” What’s more, Bicycle Music VP of business development and acquisitions Steve Salm told Billboard that the company are now plotting another re-release of NIN’s first record.
Here’s hoping they decide to collaborate with Reznor this time around, as he once expressed interest in helping out with the ‘05 reissue: “I would like to have a 5.1 version,” he told Toronto Sun (via NIN Hotline). “I’ll do extra songs. I’ll redo the packaging. Everything. But I’m not doing it for free.”