I don't think P would be so clueless as to not put up a splash page on the CD for NON-MEMBERS to purchase. That would be just plain BAD marketing.

and...I think the $25US+shipping is STIFF (thought we were weeding out the middle men so that music could come down to a FAIR price). Little bit of greed goin' down, no?.

I have no reason to join the club either, BUT I would BUY the CD. Oh-Kaaay NPGMC!

"If you want to know more about Prince and his music join the club. if you want to get advanced news and tickets bfore anyone else, join the club"


HA! I'm not joining his club. Sorry, no thanks. Been robbed to many times.

I've never learned much about Prince and his music from his club or website. Advanced news??? LOL! Really now. Last year Best Buy had ONA..Live listed with a release date online (among other websites) while NPGMC was saying "We have no information at this time." When I emailed them to ask why we were getting all this info on the releases from everyone BUT them, they sent me a nasty email back saying that they were too busy trying to get the ONALive sets ready to ship to answer peoples silly questions and would I prefer they spend the time updating the news section or shipping out my CDs? [and yes, I do have the email saved on my hard drive.]

I'm not trying to be a complainer, I'm just saying that you all should be carefull who you give your money to until they give you some real info... and follow thru on it. NPG has a bad track record. Too many lies and broken promises for this die hard fan. Nothing is real till its in my hand as far as prince is concerned. That may sound mean, but he earned it.

Second of all has anybody considered (and I am just MAKING this up by the way) that there might be a slightly discounted price for members because they are members?

I'm just sooo surprised by the leather couches in the N.E.W.S. room ??

Fhunkin said:

must be pleather...

Oh, I know where, all right. I take it you don't frequent the forums very often.

My comment about lying was overly harsh in that I didn't mean to attack you personally...just the idea you were presenting.

purplefrank said:

He's making it too difficult for people to get his music. Somebody needs to tap him on the shoulder and remind him that all of his fans do NOT own computers.

Therefore, if they have no computer, they can't join his club in order to pay for his new music. How many copies of his live album were shipped to stores? Prince, who is regarded as one of the best live acts, for the first time released a live album and it sank without making a trace on the Billboard charts.

I'm just sooo surprised by the leather couches in the N.E.W.S. room ??

All i can say is sit tight, the club is evolving. As for lying well, whereelse will you be able to hear about his first albumn NEWS from? Whereelse will you be able to buy tickets for any future gig/tours from?

The $25 is for a whole year so we need to judge its value at the end of the year. it does work out to be $2/month or $0.06/day if you take it at 365days etc.

purplefrank said:

Bzzzt, wrong. The club didn't start on Jan 1, but months later.

Plus, what is the $25 for? At the end of the year, what did you get for $25? Here's the answer: NOTHING. "Opportunities" (to buy CDs and tickets etc.) MAYBE. But that's insane!

The retail section of the site should be open to the general public and should not demand ridiculous shipping & handling fees. MAYBE regsitered members could have access to exclusive merchandise, but that shouldn't be CDs (certainly the music should be available to everyone who wants to buy it). Perhaps they should get a discount, or a store credit for part of the amount?

I've NEVER seen something run as badly as NPGMC -- and then you realsie that this has been going on for nearly TEN YEARS (1-800-New-Funk started in 1994, IIRC). All that time plenty of people have offered numerous better solutions and pointed at other artists' ways of treating their fans, and things just get WORSE!

I really wonder: does Samnation look at Amazon and then think "what would improve this site is: people had to pay to access it"? I mean: how hard is it to look around online and check out other e-shops and other artist websites and notice what works and what doesn't?

Of course, the real question is: why is some lame Flash-animator like Samnation running Prince's online presence after years of proving that he isn't capable? Because he's cheap?

Here is what Prince could be doing:

http://livephish.com/
http://www.pearljambootlegs.com/
http://bobdylan.com/

http://www.livephish.com/...ng2003.asp :
$110 for ALL ten concerts as SHN files (look it up what they are if you don't know what they are).

Don't want to download, want real CDs + artwork?
http://www.phish.com/dryg...html?cid=4

THAT is how you treat fans. Now compare to the 3 CD lamefest called "ONA Live".


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[This message was edited Mon Jun 16 5:11:11 PDT 2003 by BartVanHemelen]

irresistibleb1tch said:

Hmmm, so he prob. eats vega burgers too !!

Plus, what is the $25 for? At the end of the year, what did you get for $25? Here's the answer: NOTHING.

prrtybby said:

That's NEVER happened (unless you count the Rave DVD for $ 10 which was only announced AFTER it had been in shops and just about everybody had bought it already).

And it still cracks me up to see someone call Prince a "genious". Just by the way it is misspelled you already know the validity of that statement.

I think some of the criticism is justified, but I don't think that Prince should release every concert like Pearl Jam does.
Soem surprise mp3s would be nice, though.

Why do you think he shouldn't release concerts? He doesn't have to release every one, but how about one from each of his major tours?

calldapplwondery83 said:

purplefrank said:

Bzzzt, wrong. The club didn't start on Jan 1, but months later.

Plus, what is the $25 for? At the end of the year, what did you get for $25? Here's the answer: NOTHING. "Opportunities" (to buy CDs and tickets etc.) MAYBE. But that's insane!

The retail section of the site should be open to the general public and should not demand ridiculous shipping & handling fees. MAYBE regsitered members could have access to exclusive merchandise, but that shouldn't be CDs (certainly the music should be available to everyone who wants to buy it). Perhaps they should get a discount, or a store credit for part of the amount?

I've NEVER seen something run as badly as NPGMC -- and then you realsie that this has been going on for nearly TEN YEARS (1-800-New-Funk started in 1994, IIRC). All that time plenty of people have offered numerous better solutions and pointed at other artists' ways of treating their fans, and things just get WORSE!

I really wonder: does Samnation look at Amazon and then think "what would improve this site is: people had to pay to access it"? I mean: how hard is it to look around online and check out other e-shops and other artist websites and notice what works and what doesn't?

Of course, the real question is: why is some lame Flash-animator like Samnation running Prince's online presence after years of proving that he isn't capable? Because he's cheap?

Here is what Prince could be doing:

http://livephish.com/
http://www.pearljambootlegs.com/
http://bobdylan.com/

http://www.livephish.com/...ng2003.asp :
$110 for ALL ten concerts as SHN files (look it up what they are if you don't know what they are).

Don't want to download, want real CDs + artwork?
http://www.phish.com/dryg...html?cid=4

THAT is how you treat fans. Now compare to the 3 CD lamefest called "ONA Live".


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[This message was edited Mon Jun 16 5:11:11 PDT 2003 by BartVanHemelen]

And it still cracks me up to see someone call Prince a "genious". Just by the way it is misspelled you already know the validity of that statement.