The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.
''The Slip'' sounds quite lighter then anything Nine Inch Nails has ever released before, and surpasses ''[[Year Zero]]'' on the use of raw noise. Some of its tracks are very dance-friendly.
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.