cool: Nine Inch Nails fans have already raised $645,000 for someone's heart transplant

Explanation: http://store.nin.com/helperic/

Fund raiser VIP details: http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?18,699361

$645,000: http://twitter.com/trent_reznor/status/1896551375

The original letter was posted three days ago and TR's previous update ($450,000) was 11 hours before that $645,000 one, just to give an idea of the speed of this all.

is the dude a big NIN fan or something? if not it just seems sorta...arbitrary?

(it's a cool thing to do regardless)

Good question, I'm not sure about the link either.

Trent just got moved by the story, I guess.

http://weloveeric.com/index.php
http://www.veronicadelacruzonline.com/

I like that donors get to "hang out" with the bands. A lot of bands like Aerosmith and Poison are doing "meet-and-greets" for VIPs which is really clinical and unfriendly imo.

Oh, his updates are via Mariqueen, his fiancee. Maybe she knows the DeLaCruz family?

bump for great justice

This is great.

The most active activism (and a kind of twitter interview with his sister) is/was going on here: http://twitter.com/VeronicaDLCruz

super cool of him.

Very cool.

If there is some money left over maybe they can use it to repay the police car some NIN fan stole this weekend :).

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12442483

Eric's been transferred to a hospital in LA ( http://twitter.com/VeronicaDLCruz )

and someone reviewing the backstage VIP treatment he got:
http://www.sfbayareaconcerts.com/2009/05/nine-inch-nails-nin-shoreline.html

but they're not at the required amount of $ yet, it seems: http://weloveeric.com/donate.php

one more reason to love trent, am i right?

I'm ok with his testing how far the community will go along with him as long as it doesn't turn into a "We're In This Together" music video type personal army. ("Newspaper x didn't like our show, wouldn't it be terrible if their offices burned down?") :-)

i'm sure that was the next step

Sorry if this is considered spam (or nearly) - but I still think it's pretty cool.

(the following is on the frontpage of http://www.nin.com at the moment )

6.2.09: Help NIN, Tony Hawk, & Jane's Addiction support a great cause

We have become involved with raising money to help save the life of Eric de la Cruz, a young man who's in dire need of a heart transplant but has been consistently rejected by our country's broken, uncaring health care system. Thanks to an overwhelming outpouring of support from the NIN fanbase, we have raised an utterly incredible sum of over $850,000 in just two weeks' time to help fund Eric's transplant operation, and hopefully shine some light on a health care crisis that's affecting millions of other people in similar situations every day.

We're continuing our efforts to raise money for this important cause, and our friends Tony Hawk and Jane's Addiction are now also getting involved. Here are the donation packages we're currently offering:

- VIP packages for all NIN shows outside of the United States. These include meet & greets, photos, soundcheck, backstage access, and more. Click here for info.

- Signed, limited edition complete Tony Hawk skateboards with signed, limited edition Nine Inch Nails albums (Ghosts, Still, and The Slip). Click here for info.

- A rare opportunity to hang out with Jane's Addiction while they jam in their dressing room backstage at one of the upcoming NIN/JA shows. Click here for info.

Thanks for your continuing support and for showing the power of a strong, compassionate community.

Trent

We're continuing our efforts to raise money for this important cause

We're not stopping until this guy has FOUR hearts, people.

one for each stomach

Imagine how much he could raise if he put Google Ads on his website

^^ irl lol

me too

:(

http://www.spinner.com/2009/07/06/nin-fan-eric-de-la-cruz-dies-at-27/?icid=main|main|dl2|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spinner.com%2F2009%2F07%2F06%2Fnin-fan-eric-de-la-cruz-dies-at-27%2F

http://www.hedrichcreative.com/Eric.html

sorry but when i saw this in the link above i completely lost my shit laffin:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2009/07/reznor.jpg

so do the ppl who donated get their money back?