I am upset. It's ALWAYS the same thing: America builds a BIG STAR (usualy a poor kid born in a little town) and a few years later, throws it away like a kleenex…
---> After the full ADORATION, fans feel betrayed, bored… This typicaly LOVE/HATE syndrom is just A SHAME to me! In Europe, we always have our "longtime" stars, despite the killing "consumers' society" that creates such things as ENRON or plastic surgery madness. So get the point in ya face:
1 / Prince STILL and WILL always sell millions of records, not in 3 weeks as new Pop lolitas but each years, as any other GREAT artist in the world: some + 60 years old artists can still make golden ar platinium records. Some dead stars too!
1 / Prince is a real artist and DON'T OW YOU ANYTHING. He can create musical miracles, but you, what can you create for millions of people? He gives JOY and HOPES for only a few dollars!

2 / You are actualy talking too much MONEY. NPGMC is designed to websurfers. And websurfers are certainly richer than any palestinian worker! So if you can pay taxes and junk food, why couldn't you spend the membership access to great music and personality? I am not an NPGMC member, as I can EASILY download bootlegs and other material or buy second-hand CD's! Nobody FORCES you to be an MPGMC member or buy each Prince song! I personaly had 4 years without buying any Prince CD, and only discovered the Diamond & Pearls , Emancipation, Come and the Symbolic LP very later and enjoyed it! Because :
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GOOD MUSIC HAS NO AGE
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3 / Americans are known to be VERY POOR about not-american CULTURE. You can not say where Belgium is on a map! Normal, as you don't give a damn! SHAME! That's why Prince made the DIRTY MIND LP, "AMERICA", and many other songs and speeches about the cruel America… ART is HISTORY and HISTORY is ART. PRINCE is AMERICA'S PART OF ART, so he is is part of his history too, and for centuries.
4 - AND FINAL / If AMericans don't want Prince, here is the list of countries which WANT him:
France, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK, Holland, Spain…
I could also mention the YOUNG (not USA)GENERATION inspired by or loving PRINCE, from techno to pop / Jazz artists… and I am sure that after the stupid easy 80's pop retro come back the masses will re-discover the mid 80's Electro Funck of Prince, Morris Day, André Cymone, Jesse Jhonson… Because this still sounds amazing (play "Dance Electric" loud in front of a techno record-store, and be proud!

BE PLEASED 2 BE A GOOD MUSIC SIMPLE LOVER AND NEVER DENY THE PLEASURE LIKE ONE WOULD DO AFTER MASTU***TION. GOD SEND IT TO US 5MUSIC AND SEXUA***) TO ADORE AND RESPECT…ONEANOTHER.
GET PURE.

yep,and i'm ready 2 cash in
[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 19:54:45 PDT 2002 by theC]

no were are not ARE 'old friends for sale'. Glad i could help you.
[This message was edited Thu Jul 11 20:34:57 PDT 2002 by mrchristian]