![]() ![]() He eventually recorded 1992's "Broken" EP in secret and worked out a deal with a second label, Interscope, to release it in 1992 with TVT under a partnership. Reznor wasn't interested, however, and balked, but TVT wouldn't relent, according to She Knows. ![]() "Pretty Hate Machine" was their first really big success, and with the band's second album, they wanted more of the same. Nine Inch Nail's first label, TVT Records, mostly released compilations of TV theme songs and novelty albums. ![]() It surely wasn't the easiest or most exciting way to break into the industry, but it paid off when the demos started attracting record labels. "When that guy waxed the floor, it looked great." Waxing floors by day and recording demos by night, Reznor soon had a set of demos for his new project, which he called Nine Inch Nails (so-named because it abbreviated nicely to NIN and Reznor just liked the sound of it, contrary to numerous urban legends about how he came up with the band's name). ![]() "He is so focused in everything he does," Koster once told People. The pay was presumably not fantastic, but Reznor and owner Bart Koster had a deal: Reznor could use the studio to record demos whenever no other bands had booked it, according to AllMusic. Reznor got a job as a maintenance man at Cleveland's own Right Track Studio. So he took a pretty weird and risky path to get there. But in the late '80s, Reznor wasn't happy. It had a respectable number of bands, though, and Reznor had played keyboard in a few of them, such as Exotic Birds. ![]()
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