I doubt the NPGMC will make money from the download of the new song since it's already been everywhere else. And, since Universal probably don't give a hoot about the NPGMC and it's members, are we to assume the club will be the last place for us to find "official" news and information on upcoming Prince music?
I am wondering if this signing will also have an effect on the future sales of concert tickets.

Of course the PPs might say, "NO" it won't have an affect, but you know how that goes?!

The PPs are full of Poopoo?

It's difficult to know without knowing the details of the contract. Despite the wording of it being a 'recording contract' I still reckon it will be just a distribution deal, like with Musicology and Sony, where they make money off units sold in stores and the like, but the rest belongs to Prince. I do not think it is not like the Warners days, where they paid him an advance to create albums for them they could then sell, I think Prince created this album first and then decided on a record company he could work with after.

The NPGMC will not make money from, say, Itunes sales, but of course Prince will, whether Universal get a piece of that action, I do not know.

Concerts are usually under the sole control of the artist. Sony's involvement last year did not prevent club members getting good seats on the Musicology tour, did it? So I can't imagine it will have an impact this time either.

i think the new relationship prince has with universal is having an effect on NPGMC (and it's probably an effect we've been experiencing for quite some time now, if we knew the whole story), though i'm at the very least HOPING that the club will find some kind of balance once he's able to stretch his legs in the new record deal - i'm sure universal will work with prince to throw some crumbs at the music club at the very least...that is, if NPGMC is still a priority to prince...

the NPG fanpimping and JW's recruitment center Music Club is a Failed experment.

I think prince and the buisness world is begining to reconize it. Please shut the doors before they crash and are left with no place to go but here.

MickG said:

So, do you like my sig line?

Anxiety said:

I was banned from the keven smith messageboard because I called Jay and Bob strikes back a boxoffice flop. And I am unclear about the meaning of specious and myopic. I assume it like general wide reaching and basic bland. It's a intresting and fitting enough quote, but I am uninpressed by wisdom comming from puddgy, Kevin Smith.

MickG said:

ok

Anxiety said:

Okay? that's it? Ain't you at least going to tell me what you ment or what it means or something?

MickG said:

well, i figured you were able to find the definitions at your leisure since i didn't make up the words or anything.

specious
One entry found for specious.


Main Entry: spe·cious
Pronunciation: 'spE-sh&s
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, visually pleasing, from Latin speciosus beautiful, plausible, from species
1 obsolete : SHOWY
2 : having deceptive attraction or allure
3 : having a false look of truth or genuineness : SOPHISTIC
- spe·cious·ly adverb
- spe·cious·ness noun

myopia
One entry found for myopia.


Main Entry: my·o·pia
Pronunciation: mI-'O-pE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek myOpia, from myOp-, myOps
1 : a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects
2 : a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something
- my·o·pic /-'O-pik, -'ä-/ adjective
- my·o·pi·cal·ly /-pi-k(&-)lE/ adverb

Anxiety said:

I agree with you Anxiety, totally hear what your sayin

Anxiety said:

Maybe we'll see a similar boom like the one that followed Musicology's release. It's possible that he just wants to release stuff whenever an album drops, just to generate excitement for the disc and tour.

Personally, I think he should be taking full advantage of the club's capabilities and dropping vault tracks, live recordings and what-not every month, but he has chosen to bypass this. Of course, if he did, there would still be major bitching every month, so perhaps that is why he doesn't bother.