ROB ZOMBIE: 'Nobody Wants To Actually Purchase Music Anymore'

Rob Zombie has told AOL's Noisecreep that the full-album format has become impractical, forcing him and other artists to think of new ways to get their music out to the masses.

"I like the thought of the band writing, say, one song a month and putting it up there," Zombie said. "Say we've been on tour for six or eight months and we don't have time to stop and make a whole album. It would be cool to put out two or three songs we've written and then keep going just to keep it energized. And truthfully, when you make a new album ... you go, 'OK here's 11 new songs, five of which we'll never play live. And here's the two or three singles that will always be in the set.' So it could just be a different way to do business that's really sort of like the old way of doing things.

"Back in the '50s and '60s people weren't making albums, they were pressing singles and then an album was basically a collection of all the singles."

Rob Zombie's new album, "Hellbilly Deluxe 2", sold 49,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart. This was less than 50 percent of the opening tally of Zombie's previous CD, "Educated Horses", which landed at No. 5 on the Billboard chart after premiering with 107,000 units back in April 2006.

"Hellbilly Deluxe 2" hit stores on February 2 via Roadrunner Records' Loud & Proud imprint, and independent retail stores in the U.S. were offering a bonus free Rob Zombie digital EP download with purchase of the album. The EP featured remixes of the tracks "Jesus Frankenstein", "What?" and "Sick Bubblegum".

"The record industry is dying," Zombie told Noisecreep. "I think they dropped the ball a long time ago and they're never going to recover from it. Everybody loves music, everybody's always gonna want to make music and listen to it, but nobody wants to actually purchase music anymore. That's the trick. So for me, it's a weird time because the music scene is alive and well. It's just the music buying public is not. A year from now, I don't even know if they'll be pressing CDs anymore. Or if they do, stores won't even bother carrying 'em."

Zombie has recorded three brand new songs for the upcoming CD/DVD re-release of "Hellbilly Deluxe 2", which is due out on September 28. The tracks will be the first recorded with Zombie's current touring band, which includes Jordison. A bonus DVD featuring live footage and a 30-minute touring documentary, titled "Transylvanian Transmissions", will also be included.

The three new songs are "Devil's Hole Girls And The Big Revolution", "Everything Is Boring" and "Michael". Also included will be a reworked version of the track "The Man Who Laughs".

ROB ZOMBIE, ALICE COOPER and MURDERDOLLS will join forces for the "Halloween Hootenanny" tour in September and October.