DJ Rupture thinks the music business is overlooking many benefits when they shut down OiNK:

Think about that… a free website, which gives fast downloads of music at equivalent or higher quality than the paid music sites. And this free site has an incredibly deep collection of both new and old releases, usually in a variety of file formats and bit-rates. It’s overwhelming! First thought: wow, Oink is an amazing library. Second thought: wow, I really need to start selling DJ Rupture t-shirts, CD sales will only continue to drop & I gotta make money somehow!

[link, Catbirdseat]

Trent Reznor is following in Radiohead’s footsteps, distributing rapper/slam poet Saul Williams’ new album online:

Trent Reznor announced today that he’d be distributing an album via the Internet–not a new Nine Inch Nails record, but the next album by Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust!, which Reznor says is the “most involved I’ve been with any project outside NIN since Antichrist Superstar.”

Scary Kids Scaring Kids’ song Snake Devil, from their recently-released self-titled album, is the free single of the week on iTunes. [link, AbsolutePunk]

Illegal music-sharing site OiNK has been shut down by the British and Dutch police:

The site provided access to more than 60 albums before their release this year, according to industry experts.

“OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online,” said Jeremy Banks, head of the anti-piracy unit at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which helped in the investigation.

[link, Idolator]

Listen to two new tracks from The Pink Spiders latest album, Sweat It Out, which is out early 2008.

CT’s Ambitions posted Rapid Succession from their upcoming November release, Stranger.

[link: Lambgoat]

The Cobra Starship posted The City Is At War, from their new album ¡Viva La Corba! which comes out Oct. 23.

“If you’re one of the first 500 to preorder through the webstore, you’ll get a one-of-a-kind signed Polaroid photo taken by the band themselves…”

You can listen to a Seven Days of Lonely from I Nine’s upcoming album, Heavy Weighs the King in either Windows Media or Quicktime format.

The entire album from Dethlkok, The Dethalbum, can be streamed in its entirety online, courtesy of AOL Music.

Four new tracks from the AP Comp, Press Play Volume 1; Every Time I Die, Paramore, As Tall As Lions and Head Automatica. The comp will be out Sept. 25 at Target.