Genesia said:

Haven't received mine yet.

japanrocks said:

You are wrong. The email doesn't say anything about what size you chose while signing up.

u can't always tell from a photo...but that t-shirt looks pretty damn cheap... just as well we only pay for the 'delivery'....

so what else do we get for our $77 (that's almost $140 in my currency BTW!!)

lets do the math...

$77 minus $12 for the cds we could download rather than buy (how many didn't buy the cds anyway though?)

so that makes $65 of content to be upped over the 12 months...

1 extra song not on any album previously...singles on I-Tunes are $2 or so... that makes $63....

maybe 6 video clips that we haven't seen before or can't get anywhere else - but strictly speaking we can't download those so does that still count?

hmmm, maybe...so ok, all the video content would fit onto a dvd easily (the bitrate is no where near DVD quality)...so maybe if a 'packaged DVD is $15 - bearing in mind its not on a dvd, its not packaged, it isn't DVD quality - and we can't watch it any old time unless we r hooked up to the internet...so I'll be generous and give the videos so far a value of $8.....

tally so far $55

I shouldn't count the t-shirt - its 'free'...but once again I'm feeling generous...it can't be easy being Prince, a month's rent alone for him is probably more than I earn in a year.... I've seen better quality t-shirts for $5.00...but lets say we pay $5 for that t-shirt (hell its costing me more for shipping LOL)

so that makes $50 left over.....

in 2001 that would have been 6 months of ahdio shows
in 2002, that would be about 2.5 cds (5 cds cost us $100)...
in 2003 $25 got us a packaged CD (NEWS) a full cd to download (Expectation) and an EP to download(C-NOTE)

6 months can be a long time in 'Prince-time' though...we'll see what happens....

but so far, so not pleased....
[Edited 6/30/09 2:59am]

Efan said:

I was just about to ask the same thing.

So, one T-shirt per month.

I guess '2045' may mean something to me after all.

I FINALLY got mine yesterday.
The cotton is pretty soft, but I'm not pleased with the "decal" or iron-on quality of the design. The front design is the cover of the Lotusflow3r cd and it's not that big in size.
The founding member lettering on the back is comprised of the same cheap iron-on material and it's hig-up neck the neck of the shirt.
For $77.00 per year, he could have done better than this.
I won't be renewing my membership next year. It hasn't proven worthy thus far.

utopia7 said:

Now I have a mental pic of Prince & staff pressing and ironing on decals in his basement.

From the picture it looks like the stitching is quite neat, not the thrown together look. If Genesia is around maybe she could comment!

Have any women received theirs yet? Will be interesting to see what the cut is like .. maybe I'm hoping for too much but I would have thought they'd be more fitted but maybe they're just smaller sizes ...

SugarnSpice said:

I can't really comment until I get the shirt!

Genesia said:

Well I'll patiently wait for your opinion (and my shirt) in the meantime

That's cool, thanks for posting! There may be hope for that place yet.
[Edited 6/30/09 14:30pm]

PANDURITO said:

I'll be waiting 4 mine.....but why does the picture look so.....ugh?

it should read:


Founding Member...

I'm going with "floundering member".

got mine. i can buy the "boutique quality" claim for the t-shirt, but.... the design and print quality are another matter


surprised to see a "lotusflow3r" tag inside, though. not to mention "made in USA"

So us UK people should hopefully get it before christmas then.

catpark said:

ooops... happy new year...

errant said:

...bah, humbug!

Efan said:

Upper one shot with a flashlight ?

power said:

Can you post the packaging that it came in? This might help folks believe it to be on the real.

squirrelgrease said:

you know what mine came in? in a taped, dark gray plastic back that looked like a wadded up garbage sack. SERIOUSLY.

errant said:

The people who run that site could fuck up a wet dream.

Efan said:

Just about to make a new topic, glad people are getting it, I hope mine comes soon.

Efan said:

You realize they dealt with a third-party vendor for the shirts, right? I mean...Prince didn't stack the tees up in the Paisley soundstage and send Bria out there with polybags, labels and a tape gun.

Genesia said:

he didn't?...but I thought

Genesia said:

Personally, I like to think of Prince ironing on all the decals for the shirts first (in my fantasy, he's wearing the same doo-rag that Morris wore while vacuuming in Purple Rain). Only then does he hand the goods off to Bria to mail, thus explaining why one random person a month gets a T-shirt, apparently.

Efan said:

do rag style from UTCM....

Efan said:

[Edited 7/2/09 0:00am]

errant said:

WTF