NEWS: Trent Reznor Urges Fans Not To Buy New Nine Inch Nails Release

The 'Head Like a Hole' hit maker - who scooped an Academy Award earlier this year for his work on The Social Network – has slammed the "bulls**t" repackaging of his band's 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine which has just come out in the US.

He tweeted: "NIN fans, don't waste your money on this version of PHM that was just released...a record label bullshit move repackaging the old version. Ignore please."

Reznor – who last year released his own repackaged version of the album, remastering the record and adding a cover of Queen's 'Get Down, Make Love' – has previously had an up and down relationship with his record company. During a tour of Australia in 2007, he noticed the group's album Year Zero was priced unusually high and persuaded Interscope records to lower the cost of the records.

Last year, Reznor announced Nine Inch Nails would be going on indefinite hiatus but later revealed in March plans to resurrect the band, as well as recording with his current group How To Destroy Angels.

He said: "The three columns of things I'm currently funnelling music into – HTDA, NIN and film work - I believe will start to make more sense to you (and me) as everything unfolds. By having a few different outlets for my work I'm finding more inspiration within each one. No, Nine Inch Nails is not dead and I plan to focus on that next."