You and your Mac Remixing Culture

Nine Inch Nails is allowing people to break down their songs by musical tracks, using Garageband. From a MacMinute story:

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has made available the band's new single, "The Hand That Feeds," as a free download for Apple's GarageBand application. The song, which weighs in at a hefty 70MB, features multiple tracks that you can easily tweak. "For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks -- to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what's there," Reznor says.

Once you start messing with an artist's song, is it still the artist's song? Does the answer even matter? In addition, this makes GarageBand (the Mac program you need to remix these songs) an avenue for pop cultural production. So let us not discount the implications this has for MacIntosh and corporatist culture.