Only 18.3% have chosen to pay the $5 for Saul Williams’s Niggy Tardust so far, a disheartened Trent Reznor reveals on his blog. Williams, on the other hand, is more optimistic in this CNET interview, explaining the reason they released the numbers:

But really [Reznor’s] whole purpose of releasing that statement was that we could avoid some of the pretentiousness of some of the other groups that have perhaps done something similar, like Radiohead keeping numbers to themselves and us wanting to say, ‘Hey, look this is an open experiment that all artists should know.’ I think that this information is essential for all artists trying to do what we’re doing and figuring out whether this is something that will work.