re: NIN - Year Zero appreciation thread

I remember the ARG they made for it. There were tons of 800 phone numbers posing as dystopian gov't agencies and they had tons of hidden URLS and such. On the back of the CD (which the disc actually changed colors from the heat while playing it from white to black, which in itself was awesome) had a 800 number on the back that when you called it said "By calling this number you are pleading guility to purchasing and supporting anti-american proaganda"

awesome

I even remember that one of the songs actually analyzed by a spectrometer had some of the fuzz and chaos trent likes to end his songs with and it showed an image of the album art hand (the presence) This would only be revealed when analyzing the sound file in a spectrometer which to me was an amazing discovery and makes me wonder what else Reznor has hidden in the data of his songs.

Year Zero Alternate Reality Game