Nine Inch Nails depresses with a big Blue Screen of Death

by Matt Asay
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Trent Reznor, brainchild behind Nine Inch Nails, sure knows how to bring an audience down. In a recent concert Reznor, apparently trying to capture the pain of modern life, let the Blue Screen of Death flash across the screen:

NIN rocks out to Windows...or not

(Credit: LtRandazzo)

Somehow, that image leaves me much more depressed than NIN's classic song, "Terrible Lie":

seems like salvation come only in our dreams.
i feel my hatred grow all the more extreme....
can this world really be as sad as it seems?

Apparently, the answer from Microsoft is "Yes." :-)

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