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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====
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." In a Patreon Q&A session[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427], Sheridan was asked about the art for "Demon Seed" and he explained that it was "the end of the journey of the red line that moved through the artwork of that record, trying to make sense of the rigid forms, sometimes fighting them, before finally overtaking them. It was Trent's idea to have the line take over 'Demon Seed' so completely/aggressively. It tied in to the meaning behind the music, which isn't my place to discuss as TR tends to keep that stuff close to his chest."
According to a [http://sound.jp/hardlistening/interviews/modwheelmood2_1.html Japanese interview] with [[modwheelmood]], the hand on the cover of ''The Slip'' is that of Alessandro Cortini, while the shoulder is Reznor's. 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 a variation on the [[Logo History|NIN logo]] (second "N" being backwards).
==Multitracks==
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 up 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.
==Live==
All songs from ''The Slip'' have been played live except "The Four Of Us Are Dying" and "Demon Seed", though the latter has been rehearsed.
== Relation to ''Year Zero'' ==
==Miscellanea==
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached. According to a [http://sound.jp/hardlistening/interviews/modwheelmood2_1.html Japanese interview] with [[modwheelmood]], the hand on the cover of ''The Slip'' is that final page of Alessandro Cortini, while the shoulder is Reznor'sPDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin. Cortini also states that he did not actually play anything on the studio album, though his performances are included on the rehearsal DVD" This appears to be a typographical error. There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa. The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''
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://portraitofdecay.net/theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com] archived at Portrait of Decay
*[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails-TheSlipMulti-trackStems ''The Slip'' Multitracks at archive.org]
*[http://nincatalog.com/the-slip/ ''The Slip'' at nincatalog.com]
*[http://theslip.apocalyptech.com Un-official The Slip owners database]