Jamie Starr's a thief.

squirrelgrease said:

Yeah, but Vanity 6 is so sweet
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squirrelgrease said:

Now it's time to fix u'r clock

TheChief said:

Mostly, it's time 2 fix dat goddamn websight!!!

i used to think that he had a falling out with the website people
and they were in some stalemate where prince couldn't access his
own site and the website people refused to do anything with it at
this point until their demands were being seen to or something like
that.

but after they added those 3 short live mp3s and that bit of weird
news about a film we'd have to go see, i know better.

operations still seem to be functioning and their obviousl is no
beef between prince and his team.

with about 40 days to go until year 1 comes to a close, it could go
either way.

sure it will be very nice if he does decide to put something more
up on there. and please, no more videos, just wav files of NEW and
original music.

more likely though, imo, they will simply start promoting year 2,
with a lower entrance fee for those who are already members.

perhaps the current content will be taken off and replaced with a
bunch of 'new' (old) videos and another 3 album package much in
the same vein as the lotusflower release.

i'm thinking 2 new prince albums and the debut album of shelby J.

is it what we want or expected? no. but i'll be glad for some new
music, at least. if the entrance fee is like 30 dollars or such,
i'll probably fork it over, regardless of how shitty year 1 was.

still pissed though that the unreleased material that was at some
point mentioned, never materialised.

it's like the eternal carrot that they keep dangling. so prince
knows how bad people want it yet refuses to hand it over. must be
because the site as far too few members. but it seems absurd to
'blame' that on the people who did sign up. they're the ones who
have stuck around and still support him. it's not our fault that
the site has only, what, 50,000 members or something, at best.

that's up to him, decent promotion, a clear bussiness plan and
not a muddled, weird, obscurely titled website, no webpresence
outside of it and a steep sign up fee. besides which he always
ends up shooting himself in the foot by releasing his stuff in
multiple formats through the web and through retail.

formerly, the record labels were the ones to suffer from that,
since prince would sign with them and still be online, dishing
out product left right and center.

these days, we're the ones at the receiving end of his cane,
signing up, hanging on and finding the same product at a lot
less $ in our local retail stores.

it's gonna be interesting, at least, to see what happens with
this website. i can't imagine it going on the way it is with
this name anyway. who's gonna remember lotusflow3r? should've
had prince.com years ago.

ah, should have, would have, could have.

at the end of the day, i bitch and complain, but i'm also still
curious to see what will happen. the way he runs his online
shit is atrocious but hey, it's not like he comes into our house
and shits on our furniture.

i'd love to be strong enough to just refuse to sign up to any
of his future ventures, but i know i'm not. i'll get caught up
in the drama of it all right at the last minute and sign over
my cc details again. only to bitch and moan for another year.

IstenSzek said:

WHICH weird news about a film???

databank said:

Because he doesn't care?

databank said:

i can't remember, it was just them saying check out this film
or documentary. something completely unrelated to prince tho.

IstenSzek said:

It was Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story.

IstenSzek said:

Though, let's not forget the generous offer to Lotusflow3r members in the form of discounted $1,000.00 inkjet copies.

squirrelgrease said:

"i'm rick james bitch fck yo couch darkness"



that's when i started thinking relations between prince and that
designer might have gone sour. i thought "once again prince has
'forgotten' to pay someone for their work and now this 'artist'
is cashing in on his work by selling those prints".

sadly though, it seemed a mutual agreement, thus further lowering
the value and any authenticity the website might have had to start
out with.

'forget about the 10 albums worth of unreleased material that we
sorted through, look at these amazing HD watchtower drawings that
my child i did in windows paint.

squirrelgrease said:

He can come and do that to my couch in year 2 if he puts up more ticket offers. I know there were some but none for the shows I attended in Montreux and Paris.

More tix please and some new music. I'll hand over my money in hopes of these two things.
I don't see the video content being developed much more.
And I don't think anyone else will get a t-shirt (I did receive mine).

squirrelgrease said:

If relations have gone sour he can use our email addresses to deliver music. I think that would be a better idea anyway.

Or an external USB hard-drive with most of the content pre-delivered.