NIN to no longer perform in the US

Trent Reznor announced during Nine Inch Nails' performance at Bonaroo '09 that his legendary industrial rock act won't be performing live in the US ever again. His reasoning behind this decision seems to be that he wants to keep the NIN image fresh. How exactly it is that keeping the image of the music fresh by not playing live shows in the largest music market in the world is beyond me.

While I respect that Reznor has really never made any serious blunders in his career as a musician; I am somewhat upset by this move. NIN has alot of fans. And many of these fans (including myself) are highly devoted to the music and to Reznor. Now an entire new generation of fans may not be able to ever see the band live. Reznor has made a point in the past to be good to his fans. Like the release of The Slip for free via the NIN website. So leaving millions of fans out in the cold as far as live shows go seems totally foolish to me. You know better Trent; don't deprive your loyal fans of what they want.