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=====DVD=====
#"1,000,000" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:12#"Letting You" (Live Rehearsal)- 3:57#"Discipline" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:12#"Echoplex" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:51#"Head Down" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:04
====12" Vinyl====
''The Slip'' is available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak is limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and includes a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. It was released on July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and on July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units , with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21in the UK, 2008Europe, and Australia with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reducedto 250,000 overall.
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It was released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.
====Third Disc & 11th Track====
*Mixed by Alan Moulder
*Programmed by Atticus Ross
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
*Hair: Cori Bardo
*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson
*Management: Rebel Waltz
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:
<blockquote>as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album '''one hundred percent free''', exclusively via nin.com.</blockquote>
<blockquote>we encourage you to [http://remix.nin.com/ remix] it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your [[podcasts|podcast]], give it to strangers, etc.</blockquote> [[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.
In a nin.com update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order.
==Artwork==
Of the artwork, Rob Sheridan went on to state: "For Nine Inch Nails' album, we created logos representing each song, and embedded them in the MP3s to give each song its own visual identity when played digitally. Each logo played upon the meaning or title of the song, sometimes overtly, sometimes very abstractly. A scribbled red line crossed into most of the images, struggling to find harmony with the shapes, but ultimately failing."
The cover of the booklet is a new piece of artwork that depicts several light gray lines on a dark background (the same color as the one for 1,000,000). Five lines, two on the ends and three in the middle, all travel straight downward from the top edge to the bottom. Two more lines, in between the three middle and two outside, on each side, start straight downward, then slant inward, then travel straight downward parallel to the other lines before they would intersect the ones in the middle. These lines combined form the usual NIN logo (second "N" being backwards).
==Multitracks==
The [[Multitracks|multitracks]] for the single "Discipline" were made available on [[remix.nin.com]] at the same time it was released as a free download. Multitracks for the remaining songs on ''The Slip'' were made available on May 5, 2008 as a free download from remix.nin.com.
==Touring==
''For more information, see [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]''
The album (as well as ''Ghosts I-IV'', which was released the same year) was supported by a tour that visited North and South America. This tour was notable for having the most ambitious production of any NIN tour before or sinceup to that point, using groundbreaking lighting and video technology. The middle portion of the set, referred to as the "Ghosts" portion, utilized some of that album's unorthodox (for NIN) instrumentation such as marimba, banjo and small percussion.
== Relation to ''Year Zero'' ==
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.
On July 16, 2008, Reznor posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.
==External Links==
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]
*[http://wwwportraitofdecay.net/theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com] archived at Portrait of Decay*[http://nincatalog.com/index.asp?halo=27 the-slip/ ''The Slip'' at nincatalog.com]
*[http://theslip.apocalyptech.com Un-official The Slip owners database]
*[http://dl.nin.com/kml/slip_dls.kml Google Earth KML file] to show worldwide download stats