by SHANE SINNOTT

I’ve got a couple new things from older folks this week, and my Internet trawling brought back memories. The Breeders! Yeesh. It was six years ago that Title TK came out, and that was nine years after Last Splash, but Kim and Kelley Deal are still at it, picking up right were they left off on Mountain Battles, a new album due in April that leaked this week. I’m not exactly sure why they need a half-decade between records that sound similar, but hey, it works for them. You can get the album’s most poppy number, “It’s the Love,” at tinyurl.com/25yrrp.

Another oldie, Trent Reznor, has made a whole bunch of instrumental tracks, called it a Nine Inch Nails album, titled it Ghosts I-IV, and set up a little online empire for himself (tinyurl.com/2vxmzu). Eschewing a record label, he’s made the album available in a variety of formats, ranging in cost from free to insanely expensive. You can download the first nine tracks off the album as high quality MP3s for free on the Web site, and then if you pony up $5, you can get a digital version of the entire album.

Reznor’s system seems to use the money of the few and foolhardy to subsidize the cheaper record for the rest. The $300 “ultra-deluxe” limited edition package, which contains the album on vinyl, books and a DVD with digital sessions for remixing, sold out its 2,500 copies in days, grossing Mr. Reznor a cool $750,000. Good for him, I suppose, but I hope it doesn’t get held up as some attempt at a new business model. All the money still came from old-fashioned physical records, much like Radiohead’s In Rainbows giveaway was little more than a marketing ploy bankrolled by the album sales that followed.

And finally, for absolutely no reason other than it’s been in my head for the last little while, here’s TV on the Radio’s “I Was a Lover”: tinyurl.com/332vpn; and for the more legit reason that they’re playing Cabaret next Thursday, March 20, here’s the Drive By Truckers, “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife”: tinyurl.com/ys42kx.