Everyone's buzzing about the new Nine Inch Nails release, Ghosts. Trent Reznor has been in the habit of breaking with the conventional methods of the record industry, and Ghosts is no different.

As he did when he produced Saul Williams' Niggy Tardust, Ghosts will have different levels of pricing, ranging from free to $75 $300. The album itself (all 36 tracks of it!) is entirely instrumental and will likely appeal largely to hardcore NIN fans and digital media-watchers.

So what do you get at the various pricing levels?

• Free: The first 9 tracks in high-quality MP3, plus a 40-page PDF booklet and some other digital wing-dings like wallpapers and icons.
• $5: All 36 tracks and digital-fun-items.
• $10: All digital items, plus the physical CDs.
• $75: "Ghosts I-IV in a hardcover fabric slipcase containing: two audio CDs, one data DVD with all 36 tracks in multi-track format, and a Blu-ray disc with Ghosts I-IV in high-definition 96/24 stereo and accompanying slideshow."

And the pricing model is not even the most adventurous part of the release, Reznor also decided to license his work under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. This means that anyone can share it with other people and remix it, as long as they attribute NIN, don't use it for commercial purposes, and license any derivative work under the same conditions.