$75: Deluxe Edition Package
Includes the two CDs and the digital downloads, plus a fancy 48-page book packed with gorgeous, washed-out photos of sand and water and bleak-looking stuff — “visual æsthetic accompaniments to the music” is how the site puts it. You’ll also get a Blu-Ray disc of ultra-high-quality audio, and a special DVD with the isolated instrument tracks for each song on the album. Pretty cool idea: you can separate the eerie piano from the eerie whooshing, or combine it with the ominous buzzing and haunting clicks to create your own Ghosts I-IV remix.
$300: Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition Package
For diehard Reznor superfans, this luxuriant set offers all the shit above plus some mind-blowing extras: an exclusive four-LP vinyl pressing and two exclusive, high-quality Giclée prints of artwork from the album. (“Giclée” is a French word meaning “inkjet.”) The set is limited to 2500 pieces, each signed by Trent Reznor. Any of you rich idiots who’re thinking of buying this thing are out of luck; all the pre-orders have been filled. Which means that Trent took in a good $750,000 in only a few days on sales of retarded deluxe packages alone. Admirable!
$5000: Mega-Deluxe Superlimited Package
All of the above, plus Trent Reznor will come to your home and give you all the master tapes and original recording media used in the process of creating Ghosts I-IV. He will comment favorably on your décor, kiss you on the mouth, and leave.
$25,000: Ultimate Final Deluxe Package
All the material in the Ultra-Deluxe package hand-delivered by Reznor, who will offer you comfort in his arms. After he leaves your house, a nationwide recall of all other copies of Ghosts I-IV will be instituted; owners of all forms of the album will have their copies revoked, unsold stock will be boxed and returned, and all downloaded copies will spontaneously delete themselves. All recalled copies of the album will be shipped to the Nevada desert and buried, along with Reznor himself.
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