In addition to checking out a handful of songs from the eagerly anticipated "Facebook Movie," you can also pre-order the entire record, which drops on September 28. Reznor also informs us via e-mail that he's partnered with Amazon to make the full album $2.99 on the retail site. You can get the sampler and put in your pre-order from Null Co's website tomorrow when the link goes live.
"This has been an interesting new discipline for me to work in and I'm pleased with the process and the result," Reznor says in an e-mail.
As we noted back when we found out that Reznor would be scoring David Fincher's already-controversial film, the rocker is known for being democratic with his music via the web -- he put up the first volume of Nine Inch Nails's album Ghosts on torrent sites under a creative commons license a couple of years ago, and threatened to sell the Nine Inch Nails iPhone app on the black market after Apple blocked it from the App Store for profanity.
It will be interesting to see what kind of buzz the giveaway, as well as the Amazon price cut, builds for the sound track. Democratization + Lots of Pre-Hype can be the formula for success, as we saw when the Arcade Fire's new disc, The Suburbs, was given the Amazon discount treatment last month. The move helped the band sell 156,000 copies in the U.S. by August 11, and score the number-one spot on Billboard’s album chart.
Now, I'm guessing the question on everyone's mind is: How's the music? Well judging by the eerie tones and ominous feel of the five tracks I just listened to (you can tell that Reznor leant his talents to David Lynch's Lost Highway), The Social Network ain't gonna be all friends and FarmVille.