maybe prince originally planned 2 put out 4 separate cd albums but severely misjudged the amount of people who would actually join up to his club. when hardly anyone at all joined up, he figured giving 4 separate LP's 2 maybe only a couple of thousand people? was just bad business. this might even mean barely covering the costs of manufacture and distribution for 4 separate releases.

if hardly any of his own loyal fanbase fail subscribe to his club 2 buy his music then he is unlikely to entice a huge amount of record stores (and more importantly the casual record buying public) wanting to take 4 LP's in one year. therefore releasing a live box set gets him out of a sticky situation with his club members (technically fullfilling an obligation 2 them) and also has a slightly wider commercial appeal after touring.

if this is the case then i am still trying 2 figure out how he could misjudge the potential projected sales figures so badly. he must have estimated potential sales based on the number of members in year 1 in order to plan for year 2. one could assume the second year membership numbers dropped so massively they left him thinking he would be wasting so much new material on so few?

"Wasting so much new material on so few."- Wow, if that is the case that is pretty messed up. I think the membership grew from year one to year two, I don't think it decreased. Seems to me there are more members on the org this year than last year.

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IstenSzek said:

You believed that shit ??

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Yea... it did sound like propaganda. I didnt like the tone of some of it, but atleast they were spot on about the marketing of current pop music. Did any1 see the documentary about EMI?
Very interesting