What Was The Rollout For Pretty Hate Machine???

[paul_guyet]

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?...search_section

According to the RIAA site, Pretty Hate Machine (10/3/1989) was certified:

Gold on 3/3/1992
Platinum on 3/2/1995
2x Platinum on 9/20/1995
3x Platinum on 5/12/2003

So yeah, the bulk of those sales absolutely did not take place until well after the album had already been released for many years.

Woodstock '94 much?

[Krazy]

Woodstock '94 much?

It probably helped, but it was more TDS (and the Closer single/video) IMHO. NIN fucking grew into a monster after that album. I know Trent is on record as saying he didn’t wanna do Woodstock, but they would’ve been an arena act regardless. I think Woodstock was a PPV event anyways, correct?

[paul_guyet]

It probably helped, but it was more TDS (and the Closer single/video) IMHO. NIN fucking grew into a monster after that album. I know Trent is on record as saying he didn’t wanna do Woodstock, but they would’ve been an arena act regardless. I think Woodstock was a PPV event anyways, correct?

I think the whole NIN performance was, but I know some of it showed on MTV all summer long that year. Plus, the live performance of "Happiness In Slavery" won a Grammy.