EMANCIPATION is available for £2.99 HMV UK

That's 1 pound per CD

I calculated that all alone

i saw this the other day and bought it just for the sake of it now i have a sealed copy ) couldnt believe they are selling it for £2.99! thats outragous!

PANDURITO said:

Well done! at least your maths is beeter than mine! lol

That's about £2.50 too much.

They should be paying you take it off their hands.

haha i was waiting for these comments 2 come in lol

How much is that in 2.5 pounds in American Dollars?

i bought for a fiver on amazon a week ago - man, i clda saved 2 squires if i hadnt been as lazy.

i like it... however those who don't think musicology is that great should listen to this.

from 1996 onwards, with the exception of rave and musicology, it just seems like each track is a product of prince just.. jammin'

i still think emancipation is well worth my fiver, even if just for the artwork alone.

one question (just been reading through the booklet in detail) under in this bed eye scream.. it says backwards "2 wendy and lisa and susannah" - how come its the only thing written backwards? as if 2 disguise it?
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musicologyphd said:

You could argue it draws attention away from Prince trying to make nice with erstwhile colleagues, as if he's slightly embarrassed to be putting something personal on the booklet.

Or it could be a nod to the background writing which was often used during the Revolution years when they were with him.

Or it could be that backward writing is Prince's way of highlighting the comment, after all, he often wrote 'Slave' backwards on his cheek.

Or it could be drawing attention to the comment, since you are forced to expend effort in translating it.

Any of these, really. Only Prince knows.

For that money, every Prince fan should buy the album. There's so many tracks on there, you're bound to like a few even if you don't like the whole album.

In This Bed I Scream is worth £2.99 alone to me , thats a great price for an excellent triple album , and if you buy it and hate it youve not wasted much money either

HMV periodically put this album on sale, and every time they must shift a couple dozen more copies, i'd love to know just how many. does it ever re-chart on like the rnb chart or something

I definately think its worth £3, as people say, 36 songs, there's bound to be at least 6 you like, at least.

i wonder how much emancipation has sold in the UK now, and also, how many copies HMV have in their wherehouses!

HMV Australia had it for $10... they can't get rid of them fast enough

softandwet said:

I work in a HMV store. and I have to say the album has been in most of there sales for 3.99 for the past 4 yrs or so, I will out of interest check out how many we have sold when Im back in work 2morow.

To my upset I bought it when it first came out on tape/cassette, had my car stolen, and the only thing they nicked after i found the car dumped was tape 2 from the set, boo hoo, anyway needless to say I have a spare cd set now!!

p.s they got the 3 dvd box set of the films on at 20.00 and other cd's from Prince in the sale..check them out.

I'm from Italy...can I buy from this site or does it sell only into UK ? if I can buy from it how much is the shipping cost?

It's a fucking awesome album
Stupuid haters.....

Marco81 said:

why not just check the website!! www.hmv.co.uk might it not be cheaper for you just to buy it in italy? there must be a site or shop that has it cheap?

wow i always thought this album was well out of print, I've only ever seen it in used record stores usually priced at around 4 or 5 euros which it warrants for The Holy River alone, one of the best Prince songs ever imo

kinaldo said:

Dreamin' About U is my personal favorite from that album. It has that spring night vibe in it.

THANKS FOR THAT MATTI IM OFF TO HMV TOMORROW

This has to be Prince's most ill-advised LP ever; more so than any other career moves, to my mind any.

While there are some good songs (good, certainly not great - In This Bed I Scream springs immediatly to mind) the wealth of over-produced stodgy shite on here is at an all-time high.

Prince had a real opportunity at this point in his career to banish any unwarranted criticism - especially with regard to the age old adage 'he puts out to much stuff'/'he has no quality control button' - but instead he released this triple and let all the Prince critics take easy shots.

Having said that - in an age when LPs are becoming depressingly disposable (thanks to the Ipod/mp3 players) you can probably make a pretty solid 10-track LP.

That's if you can be arsed.

damnedifido05 - any news on the sales of it?

its funny i bet it shifts another half dozen copies every time just cos someone posts its on sale again on the org!

softandwet said:

keep forgetting 2 check, but the hits/b sides has done v well, so gives me an excuse to play instore, just have to run and skip tracks on the ones with swearing in...promise will check out sales, i will stick a postit note to my forhead..latas..xx

As an album of songs, this CD set is quite astonishing. It's got 36 songs which is remarkable in itself, each with crisp production and great songwriting and there's a large amount of commercial sounding songs that, if promoted correctly, could have made the album huge. If anybody else had released it, it would have been rated a lot higher.

I always think that Kirky J's production is fine... It just doesn't suit Prince's music. I think that it's just too slick and succeeded only in turning Prince's raw sound into a typical 1990s sound and ultimately created Prince's most 'plastic' sounding album ever.

As a Prince album, it's average. I like it and when I'm in the right mood, I love it, but it's still average.

Still, at £2.99 you'd be a fool to yourself daft not to. It's still a Prince album and if you're a fan then you have to have it and you're guaranteed to find at least 10 songs that you'll love.

so which HMV did you see it for £2.99, i don't have the album yet, so it would be a bargain if i got it.

cheers

thanks MATTI i got the triple cd at HMV for £2,99 its great and a steal at this price and all HMV stores un UK have them in their stores cos i asked as i have a friend who live in another part of the UK and i told her it was on sale for this price and she went and got it too so thanks again from both of us

to mancabdriver itS avalible at all HMV stores across the UK cos i asked that question at my store where i got mine and thats what they told me