GothamCity



Joined: 18 Apr 2003
Posts: 128

Posted: 22 Mar 2004 18:30 Post subject: OK, It's time to raise the membership back to $100

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It seems like everyone is joining just to get a good seat, and in turn, defeats the purpose of the presale, to get good seats. It also defeats the purpose of the music club (to establish a home for like minded serious admirers of Prince, in a place built by Prince.) Let's raise the membership fee (donate the money to Prince's charity or something) back up to $100 so we thin the herd. That way only serious club members get the seats, not the standard concert goer looking for an easy way to get some good seats or scalping seats.Just a thought.

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EDIT: This is a post from GothamCity in the U Smell Us forums that I thought the Banished Ones would enjoy.
[This message was edited Sat Mar 27 19:19:40 2004 by theblueangel]

RDHull goes on to put his snooty snout up in the air and pout:



Dude....that place has got to you. That's really sad.

GothamCity says:

But there's an EXTREMELY simple solution. The club simply has to use some organizational skills and a couple hours manpower after each presale to make sure that the members who have been in the club for the longest get the best seats over someone who joined a few days ago. If they don't do that, then you should be complaining to their lazy, uncaring asses rather than begging them to quadruple the membership fee so that people earing minimum wage jobs and raising families don't get to participate.

GothamCity, you make me sick to the ulcerated bottom of my churning stomach. I find your attitude repulsive - not in the slightest bit compassionate, or humane, or (this goes without saying) intelligent. All you dolts over there (not EVERYONE over there, just the dolts...y'all know who I mean) are among the dumbest group of mental ward rejects I've ever encountered...and trust me, I've been the bottom boy in a group gang bang in the psych ward oof the County Correctional Facility, so I know what I'm talking about.

Quite being so goddamned disgusting, exhibiting all the traits of Americans (which I KNOW you are) that make much of the rest of the world rightly see as as ignorant, stupendously stupid, and just fucking selfish as hell in the most disgracefully, CLASSLESS way.

Carry on, GothamCity and the rest o' y'all fucking psychopaths...

PrinceOfFunkyPop

sagely said:

HALLELUJAH man!!! Always great to see humanity pop up its gorgeous head in that cess pool of negativity.

very selfish way of thinking there. what's this "just anybody can join now" crap....prince is out there for everyone, he ain't just here to please those of us who follow him the closest. i think that it was a nice gesture on p's part to start up the $25 fee, y'know, so that anyone (well, damn near--not everyone has a credit card) can join up. good lawd--the whole 'positivity' trip they try so hard to push over there is a trip sometimes, because some people don't latch on to it.

extreme exclusivity? there's no sunshine and purple gumdrops in that, man.

If the club had actually GIVEN us anything of worth for our $25 last year, and if they do seating based on seniority which they should but probably won't do because it would involve a little effort on their part, then these whingers (ha!) would have nothing to moan about. But now, because we got absolutely nothing for last year, and because they don't even THINK to just pester the moderators to make sure the seats are allotted based on seniority in the club (which is the ONLY fair way to do it...people have been saying that PeePee9 said it was random?) - HELLO people, THAT'S when you have to get aggressive and say "Excuse me? Is that the best deal for the members or just the easist option for you?"

And then RD, it's cool that you're apparently kidding, but how could you expect anyone to KNOW that based on yer attitude on the thread and the fact that the poster is dead serious?

Oh, but Shorty got it !!!!! The SWEET member of the club whom I made copies of the Testament bootleg for (basically the entire unreleased canon) because she didn't have any and we had started chatting back before The Banishment...so I mail them to her, and she doesn't even say thank you, and then posts about how she made copies of them and then passed them along to Vermillion to be tossed in the bonfire along with the rest of the contraband CDs.

Real fucking nice people they got over there. Disgusting, appalling values. And you know it too, don't you? You know inside that you're a hollow shell and that's all you'll ever be.

Tra-la-la...
[This message was edited Sat Mar 27 21:03:14 2004 by theblueangel]

tmo

1965 said:

FINALLY SOMEONE COMES UP WITH THE SOLUTION!!!

RainbowChil7 said:

Damn, girl, you're RIGHT ON!!!! I know I'm usually harsh on you, but that's a great little breakdown of the major issues.

theblueangel said:

Except, as I posted elsewhere, I have been a member since the first day but found it difficult to renew my username and had to come up with a different one each time. My record would therefore show that I have only been a member for just over a year, not the 3 years plus that is the reality.

Whatever the solution, they will never please everyone, it is impossible. I am more than happy with allocated seats, I really hate having to wake up early and queue all day just to get a decent view for a show that starts at 8pm. I have seen Prince up close and am quite happy for newer members to have an opportunity for the front row seats. It really doesn't make me any less of a fan, the music is the most important thing.

All I would ask of the club is that they make sure that the pre-sales can cope with demand. I couldn't get club tickets for the Saturday ONA show in London because they sold out. Just so long as they pre-sell as many as they can and let the balance go to general sale I will be happy. There really is no point in a pre-sale if tickets are limited, that is what makes the pre-sale a mockery. They might as well sell members tickets concurrently with the rest.

Someone started a thread suggesting membership be raised to $250.

I added a comment saying that we should donate our limbs to science as membership payment, because a true fam would amputate for Prince and to say otherwise would be whining.

The thread was deleted.

Anxiety said:

1) two hunnid fitty?!!!!

2)

How about we all sell one of our kidneys on Ebay, and graciously mail the money off to Paisley Park, to show how much we love them. And whoever's money arrives first, gets first dibs at the best seats at his shows...

Tom said:

women would be donatin their own eggs n'stuff...folks fresh out the hospital, fightin over seats...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

you said: 2 HUNNID FITTY! Ever seen, "I'm gonna git u sucka!?"

TheBluePrince said:

it's been forever since i seen it, but yeah...

theblueangel said:

I miss RDHull...Where he be??

TheBluePrince said:

he's alive n'well over at the npgmc forums, last i heard...i miss him, too.

Im on the fence on this one. I feel your pain though, I too have been down since the love4oneanother and the clubs first download, the one song. In a perfect world our seniority would be rewarded, no such luck at the club.

I say raise the membership to 10% of your annual wages, like a tithe back in the good ol' days.

The only way you would be able to prove your annual wage though would be to turn up at PP with your current wage slip and cash for the subscription. There would be no receipt obviously and you would have to have good faith that you are on the membership.

That way you are all paying the same so you don't need to worry about minimum wage earners not being able to afford because it is still the same percentage as some rich dude would pay.

if y'all look at www.princetix.com that is why people shouldn't be allowed to join at $25 and then try selling tickets at $1000+ EACH

TheBluePrince said:

How much for JUST ONE RIB???

theblueangel said:

I have been saying this since they syarted the $100 fee. I was all for it and now look what you have when it is discount priced. Wait until tonight and see the complaints from devoted LA members that get crappy seats behind people that joined a few weeks ago
[This message was edited Mon Mar 29 6:10:42 2004 by newwave]

newwave said:

So? A member is a member right?
If the longtime members got lousier seats than the people who just joined last week than they should've gotten their ass sooner over at the club when the presales started just like the newer members did...
It's their own fault if they got lousier seats not of the newer members...

Neversin.

The only problem I'm going to have with this whole "random seating" thing is if I hear about the same damn people getting prime seats for every show they attend. When I hear some of the more zealous NPGMC stalwarts complaining about not being front and center (or whatever is considered "plum" in this in-the-round set-up), then I'll know seating is truly random. Till then, you'll have to pardon my skepticism...

Anxiety said:

Well, I agree but dont you think the random seating concept - if there is one in place - would alleviate the same freaks getting down front and saving places for their tardy friends to dominate the best seats. I was at the last celebration and it was like this all 7 nights - the same handful of maniacs bullied themselves into the front and let their friends cut the line in front of us. There was one chick that showed up with 3 kids - one in a stroller - to get down front since security let people with kids go to the front row. It pissed me off because I knew they had not paid membership dues or the $250 ticket price for those kids that were taking up 3 front row seats and not even paying attention. That is the kind of inequity and bullshit that I hope the random seating will stop. Even though it menas I am not guaranteed front row as a result of my camping out in the line. I did that andI just dont want to anymore. Like Anxiety, I will take my chances with this system until I see it break down.

That's what I'm sayin'. If the same faces are sitting in the same places, it ain't random. Hopefully part of this whole concept is that when Prince hits the stage, he can see fresh faces up front at every show, and not the same ol' hangers-on. Some folks have seen the guy a kajillion times, and it's time for them to give it up to someone who hasn't had the up-close-and-personal experience. Hopefully the whole random seating concept was decided upon in something close to this spirit.

Anxiety said:

"You got change for ah hunnid!" "Fuck the cup, pour it in my hand for dime"

theblueangel said:

I fuggin love u dawg! *drops 2 knees*

Who cares i dont because i'm glad his popularity is growing again ive been a member all 3 years so what dude quit cryin and be real im sure he wanted this 2 happen he's gettin paid

theblueangel said:

Seriously. I can understand how it is so frustrating... But.. like I mentioned before, I could never afford the fee before and there was no way that my parents would have dished out the money when I was younger... we just didn't have money like that. Now that I am out on my own and have some money to spend, 25 is reasonable. I'm sure that there are other fans out there in my situation... who love prince, but are just poor! LOL. However, I also agree that there should be some sort of limitations/ requirements for handing out the tickets to the npg members... maybe doing something based on how long the people have been members or their activity in the community.. Maybe initiate a grace period, where they have to be members so long before they can take advantage of the priveleges.