SexyBeautifulOne said:

At the time you bought them from NPGMC, you should have been given an option to backup the licensing on your system which would allow you to play them anytime. I know a lot of people didn't do that, and it would be nice for those who didn't to have access to the license.

ToraToraDreams said:

It's just the love4oneanother hand.

adavislv2cdwn said:

Uhh...I know I didn't make Prince nor give him his talent.
But we have given him success. Who buys those cds, God? Who goes to those concerts, God? Who gets their friends into him, God?
God may have made Prince Rogers Nelson the person. But we the fans made Prince the superstar.

adavislv2cdwn said:

I may be wrong but weren't people advised to backup their licenses?

ToraToraDreams said:

I love you all very much.

ToraToraDreams said:

So Prince owes us?

Lothan said:

That's the thing, though. I've always said that I *really* DO NOT want to meet Prince. At all. Ever. Not because he would disappoint me. But because I know for a fact that if he and I were ever to have a conversation, we would be having probably the only real argument he's had with a person in 25 years, and his jack-booted thugs would be hauling my ass out of whatever room we were in for daring to call him on a lot of asshole shit that he's done over the years.

darrenj said:

Everyone just needs to chill and watch this video.






(Please watch all 5 minutes...This girl can dance!)

Lothan said:

All he owes us is to not threaten to sue us or websites devoted to him because we/they want to talk about him and put up pictures of him to HELP PROMOTE HIM.

I mean, seriously, this has got to be the single dumbest thing any artist has ever done.

Of course I understand not wanting people pirating music releases. Fine. Perfectly acceptable. I'll even conced to the limited value of getting people to stop posting videos or bootlegs, which he may try to gain profit on in the future. BUT FUCKING PHOTOS?! Which is really all this site and the others do that would violate copyright law..... that's just fucking insane.

Lothan said:

He ain't gotta kiss me on the cheek or gimme money or even say thank you, as nice as all that'd be. I'm not saying he owes us anything beyond some respect to his fans. That'd would be nice.

ToraToraDreams said:

Nobody forced you to buy the music, the movies, the books, see the concerts. Something in Prince's music spoke to you, moved you. So you spent money cause you enjoyed him. If you're like me, you were buying it before most people ever knew who he was. You didn't spend this money so you could say "I made him who he is." You spent the money cause it made you feel good.

Just cause you buy 20 Snickers bars a year doesn't mean you "made" the Mars Company. Again, it's the ego. We did this, we did that. He owes us. It's not about let's enjoy the music and each other. It's me, me, me. The total antipathy of what his music's been about! I don't understand how the very people attracted to his music have this attitude.

ToraToraDreams said:

I dont' even need for him to show respect to his fans. All I want is for him to keep his DISrespect for us to himself. Until he does that, he's going to continue to get a tongue-lashing.

adavislv2cdwn said:

Lothan said:

Yeah, L4OA. Charity for out of control ROCK STARS who ripz down two mansions and builds outhouses style schools for kids in Vietnam and brags on his website about plans to build gardens for poor people in MPLS in November!!! Ever try to plant a garden in November in MPLS??? Even God knows better Prince.

I hope Prince feels great about the guy he has became and takes great pride in bringing down the fan sites. Take great pride P in your next POC album moving less than 100thousand copies because your fans fucking had it with your bullshit.

adavislv2cdwn said:

When i say "I" and "We" I mean ALL fans/supporters. I ain't trying to have no ego. I ain't saying "Hey, you know that Prince guy, that's all me right there"
I'm sayin' where the hell would he be without anyone supporting his work? Nowhere. Where would anyone like him be? Can you fathom this equation?

ToraToraDreams said:

yeah....just like the respect shown him.

realm said:

He won't miss you. He has a new fan base.

This is the kind of fucked up mentality Prince wants rid of.

Lothan said:

The racial and gay shit is over the top.

Lothan said:

He had plenty of respect, honey, for YEARS. But it gets hard when he got some vigilante sherrif with a cracker jack badge and a law degree he bought on ebay knocking down your door with guns ablazin'

Lothan said:

Dearest, you and I have come an awful long way.

But rest assured that I would damn well say anything I've said to his face. Promise. Of course, I'd have to look down on him, literally.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Okay, now that IS wrong, whoever is saying that needs to be handled. Who wasdoing that?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I agree, it is awful! I guess I am pretty naive for it to shock me, but it does.

Too late, I saw it!

gemini13 said:

And rest assured, you know I am not talking about you.

I am speaking mostly to the folks on PFU who didn't leave a name but left a lot o' vitrol.

ToraToraDreams said:

I don't know but I saw some faggot/nigger crap

ToraToraDreams said:

I know you didn't mean you personally and that you meant "we" as fans. I have always felt so "together" with Prince fans, and now it seems the essence of the music doesn't matter any more. Now it's all about what we should have, are entitled to, can't have, etc. I know there are no innocent parties to this disagreement. I know both sides must feel betrayed or used or mishandled, and I don't discount anyone's feelings. I just feel this is a rift that will never be mended.

In the end, who is going to win, and what is the real prize? Fans aren't going to get Prince's love and respect, and Prince isn't going to control the world. We all lose.

Lothan said:

RESPECT???

Prince is all about whatever is good for Prince. NPGMC advertizes cds and doesn't come thru with those cds, NPG makes a magazine and terminatez the magazine and doesn't refund money, NPG sells "aftershow" tickets and they become "afterparty" tickets..on and on.

NPG makes a charity called L4OA and when do you hear about it?..WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FANS!!!!! But the fans in the end give money to the charity that Prince uses to make his ass look good.

So you say RESPECT?? I don't think Prince is the type of artist that is trying to gain the fans respect but he loves the fans $$$$$.

Lothan said:

I randomly read maybe 15 things spread out over different pages, and glanced over 50 more. But there's like a 1000 messages on there. I just saw a wide mix of responses, from people in different agegroups and nationalities, with some people being quite elaborate while others were jotting down a brainfart... like I would expect on the internet and especially in the Prince community.

I believe in moderation when there is a mechanism for back-and-forth discussion, like on a forum.
I also believe there is room for pages that are snapshots of the Prince community's psyche at a given moment in time. It's real and raw, and can be painfull. But I don't like pretending it doesn't exist.

Lothan said:

I know, I did just see what you were talking about, and I have to agree that is pretty disgusting.