Nine Inch Nails Tracks Angst via Google Earth

For those of you who don't know, Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails never had his mother tell him the whole "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free" adage, and he's started giving away his milk for free (and by "milk," of course, we mean Nine Inch Nails songs, not something else entirely...get your mind out of the gutter). He fired his record company, sold some instrumental CDs for cheap, and now he's giving away the new Nine Inch Nails album.

Today, Wired.com ran an article about how Reznor has posted an interactive Google Earth file on the website showing where people have downloaded the album.



Now, as you can see from this geographic data tracking Nine Inch Nails downloads, there's apparently a whole lot of angst east of the Mississippi River. There's a little bit of angst along the West Coast, but not so much in Northern California, where everyone's drunk on vineyard tours all the time. There's a little bit of angst in the Mojave desert, but that's apparently just from people who have air conditioning. The others living there are too damn hot to have time to worry about being angsty. And then, unsurprisingly, there's almost no angst at all in Middle America. Too busy eating mom and apple pie, we assume.


There is that one big spike there in Montana or somewhere, which we assume is maybe the Unabomber's old place.


Remember the Unabomber? That was kind of a long time ago. We feel old.

Vince out.