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It was announced that Reznor and Ross were taking part in the soundtrack on [[nin.com]] on July 1st, 2010:
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I was planning on taking some time off after the continual waves of touring that ended last fall and spend this year experimenting around with what would become [[How To Destroy Angels ]] and some new [[NIN]]. Well, that plan didn't work out so well. David Fincher started inquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming film, ''The Social Network''. Yeah, the movie about the founding of Facebook. I've always loved David's work but quite honestly I wondered what would draw him to tell that story. When I actually read the script and realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned. Atticus Ross and I have been on a creative roll so I asked him if he wanted to work on this with me and we signed on.
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=== Multitracks and Remix Contest ===
On the album's official [http://www.facebook.com/TSNsoundtrack?v=wall&ref=mf Facebook page], <!-- Irony noted -->a promotion for the movie was created on September 22, 2010, where fans could remix the multitrack stems for "On We March" and "In Motion" for a contest to be judged by Reznor and Ross. The Grand Prize was a flight to LA to see the movie at a theater on opening night and meet up with Reznor and Ross, as well as an Akai APC40 and copies of Ableton Suite and Sound Toys' Native Effects. The winner was "In Motion " (A Few Enemies Rmx V2)" by Estevancarlos [https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-22010]. The runner-up prize, a one-of-a-kind signed art proof and copies of Ableton Suite and Sound Toys' Native Effects, was won by "On We March " (Incept/Except)" by jcworsley [https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-22102]. Although they said they would try to find other opportunities for people's remixes down the road, nothing further was announced for them. [https://www.facebook.com/TSNsoundtrack/posts/156017844421221] The [[multitracks]] can be downloaded at archive.org.[https://archive.org/download/NineInchNailsRelatedMultitracks]
===Download Sampler===
The album's art is by [[Rob Sheridan]], based upon the designs used to promote the film, mixed with Sheridan's style of image distortion.[http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798132834][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798241432][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798316024][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798383840] The glitch art that was used for the sampler was originally intended for the proper cover, and was restored for the 2020 vinyl Definitive Edition.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200916183042/https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1306299282228572165] Sheridan wrote on his website about the process of creating the artwork:
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For ''The Social Network '' soundtrack art, my goal was to walk the line between representing the film and creating something that stood as a piece of art on its own, much as the soundtrack itself does.
For the cover, I needed to represent the branding of the film, but neither Trent nor I wanted the photo of Jesse Eisenberg to be the cover as directly as it was in the film's poster. By blurring out the photo and placing the title text over Eisenberg's eyes, I was able to create a cover that evoked the film's branding while distancing itself from it at the same time. The style of fonts used in the film and its marketing were something Trent and I both really liked, so we preserved that for the soundtrack.
An early idea I had was to digitally corrupt the images we had from the film, combining a "glitch art" visual aesthetic I've always been interested in with a metaphor for digital images shared on Facebook, the corruption they're susceptible to, and the corruption portrayed in the film. This idea resonated with Trent, so I began experimenting with different ways to destroy the publicity stills Sony had sent me.
Whereas in previous projects (especially ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' and ''[[Year Zero]]'') I'd used careful manual processes to create digital glitches, this time I actually destroyed images by opening them up in a text editor and adding/removing text to their raw code.
It was a very experimental, trial-and-error process - I tried different file types, different rendering methods (for example, damaged Photoshop files render much more interestingly in OSX's Preview than in Photoshop itself), and different types of text injected into the image files (I grabbed random paragraphs of text from around the web - ridiculous fan-fiction sites were a fun source). The results are what you see below - these images were distorted through manual editing of the image files in a text editor, not through intricate Photoshop work. [http://rob-sheridan.com/TSN/]