NINtastic Journey.

In honor of the last Wave Goodbye show, I put this together:

It was late June 2009.
Must’ve been around the 18th or 19th, right after I came back from Washington, DC. I was sitting on my bed, legs crossed, listening to my iPod.
It was a month or so too late, but I scrolled through the artists. L…M…N…N! I quickly rolled down until the artist “Nine Inch Nails” was selected.
I opened the album Further Down the Spiral, having been recommended The Downward Spiral but thinking that it would be good enough. I put it on shuffle.
The first song that came on was “The Art of Self Destruction, Pt. 1” a remix of the song “Mr. Self Destruct.”
Quiet beats.
“I control you…I control you…”
Honestly, the song scared me at first. On the chatroom that I was logged into, I typed something along the lines of: “god, does this song scare me. All it basically is is Trent whispering “I control you”! but I love it.”
Soon afterwards, I logged on to the Nine Inch Nails MySpace page. I listened to The Downward Spiral.
“Mr. Self Destruct” was immediately my favorite NIN song.
A bit later, I burned With Teeth to a disc and put it in my CD player. I loved “All the Love in the World,” “The Collector,” “Getting Smaller,” and “Right Where It Belongs.”
Then came The Slip. I got my free download. I loved it.
Skip ahead to the last day of summer -- August 9th, 2009 -- and I was sitting on my bed, drinking a smoothie and finally listening to The Fragile. I loved it instantly, too.
Then I listened to the Broken EP. Didn’t regret it one bit.
My friend, Kera, emailed me her rip of Pretty Hate Machine which I absolutely adored.

And since then, I haven’t looked back.