Music News & Notes

AC/DC Get Trading Cards

With profits made from selling CD's down drastically, new revenue sources like T-shirts, totes, belts and shorts and other merchandise, it should shock no one that Aussie legends AC/DC will enter the trading card market. The 'High Voltage' card set is due out in November, and the 100-card base set covers everything from the band's humble beginning in 1973 all the way up through their current tour in support of the best-selling 'Black Ice' album.

The product features:

* 100-card base set (24 packs per box, 5 cards per pack) takes you on a journey from AC/DC's Austalian beginnings through the recent "Black Ice Tour."

* Subsets based on some of AC/DC's best-known songs, including "It's A Long Way To The Top", "Back In Black", "Thunderstruck" and "Rock 'N Roll Train".

* Foil inserts: "We Salute You" and "On The Highway to..."

* Autographed memorabilia
 
Didn't another band with lots of makeup do this is the 70's?

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Nine Inch Nails To Reissue 'Pretty Hate Machine'

Nine Inch Nails are scheduled to re-issue their debut album, 'Pretty Hate Machine' on November 22 (originally released in 1989). Frontman Trent Reznor said he had remastered the album's original mixes in order to off a “greatly improved sonic experience” for listeners.

He added: “It’s been an interesting trip watching the fate of this record float from one set of hands to another (a long and depressing story) but it’s finally wound up in friendly territory, allowing us to polish it up a bit and present it to you now.