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Title: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1989, Industrial, Industrial Rock, Cleveland, Ohio 5/26
Matrix #: B0015099-01
Condition: EX (VZ) | Members: Trent R (65' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Trent R was raised mostly by his grandparents after his parents divorced, a family break that fed the isolation and control themes around early NIN.
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Studio Lore: Reznor worked at Right Track Studio in Cleveland and used off-hours access to build the demos that became Pretty Hate Machine.
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Legal Trouble: The album’s success led into a brutal label fight with TVT, pushing Reznor to hide recording under fake band names before Interscope got involved
