Spookymuffin said:

yeah, we're completely fucked up for wanting to spend our money supporting smaller bands that actually need it.

Justin1972UK said:

Well, I guess I read it wrong. By the looks of there comments I thought they couldn't be anything other than Teenagers.

Well, I just checked the site again and it appears that my post did go through. It didn't look like it had gone through and I typed another one right behind it. As it turned out, both of them went through and I even got a reply from someone named Mary Mary, which I had to turn around and set straight. They think they're some mean motherfuckers, they just don't know me. I enjoy telling them about themselves.

You know that for a fact do you?

I'd say the majority are ages 16-30 of both genders and any sexuality.

purplesweat said:

lets have sex. NOW

InsatiableCream said:

Prince might sue us...

AW WHAT THE HELL?!

vainandy said:

A few things things strike me upon reading these comments.

Most folks are resorting to name-calling and insults instead of discussing the issue at hand.

If you think Prince sucks and wonder why anyone would download his videos anyway, why would you care if they're pulled from YouTube?

It's clear that most people nowadays have no respect for artists and copyright law. Notice the complaints about Metallica yanking their songs from Napster? That's the root of the problem here. The Internet has made file sharing so commonplace that people now think that they're somehow entitled to songs and other copyrighted material for free. So when someone pulls the plug on material that people didn't legally have access to begin with there's a backlash against the artist.

I downloaded quite a bit of material from Napster when it was free. When it was shut down, I was bummed out, but I wasn't angry because, in all fairness, I knew that songs weren't meant to be shared for free. I mean, I wouldn't rig my house to get free cable and then boycott the cable company years later when they cut me off.

Having said that, I can understand Prince wanting to rid YouTube of bootleg material, but I think having all those old videos up there does him more good than harm. MTV doesn't play videos anymore--much less Prince's videos. For example, I've only ever seen "Black Sweat" on TV once. I watched the video on YouTube hundreds of times and even forwarded the link to friends who didn't even know Prince had a new album out, and some of them ended up loving the song and buying 3121. Music videos, after all, were meant to be promotional, and they can serve Prince well, in that respect, on YouTube.

But the bottom line is that music videos are copyrighted, and it’s ultimately Prince's right to pull the videos if he so chooses.
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Bishop31 said:

Hmmm, I wonder who's career you've been watching. The end has been here commercially for awhile now.

Oh come on... On any given subject these kids leaves the most obscene and racists comments on Perez Hilton's blog

#247 - MaryMary says – reply to this
to #143 Vainandy
DO NOT assume anything about me! I do not listen to hip-hop.But I also do not listen to some midget,queeny,prissy,scrawny,control freak,has-been bastard who thinks the world revolves around him.Prince has an ego the size of Texas and yes,his music is old and outdated.People don’t buy his music anymore.You are one of the few idiots who still listen to him.Bend over and continue to let him fuck you over,with no lube.He treats his fans like shit


#248 - vainandy says – reply to this
Re: MaryMary –
And as I said before, yes his music is outdated because he makes actual music which is something this new generation knows nothing about. Now, if you don’t listen to shit hop, but the music you listen to is not outdated, then what exactly are you listening to. The only other thing I hear all over the radio is all that slow ass dull shit. I mean has everyone lost all their sense of rhythm these days. What’s the problem with them. Speed the fucking tempo up and start throwing down.
I like funk honey. Hard, uptempo, jamming funk and Prince is the ONLY one that still delivers that these days. Yeah, it’s outdated, it’s actual music.
As for Prince mistreating his fans, well, I’ve never met him. How can you mistreat someone you’ve never met? Yeah, he’s a control freak. He’s a star. Real stars always want special treatment.
As for the homophobic remarks, as I said before, if you are tired of homosexuality being shoved down your throat, then bend over and let us shove it up your ass. Homosexuality is a compliment, not an insult.


Vainandy... you let that lil bitch have it

banks said:

Is MaryMary's space bar broken or something?

So lots of folks think Prince is a "has-been" eh? Let's see: An artist who's released a somewhat prolific stream of music in the past 10 years, had the best-selling tour of 2004, an album that debuted at #1 in 2006, an impressive Superbowl performance that was hailed as the "best halftime show ever" by scores of people on the Web, an album giveaway that boosted The Daily Mail's sales significantly, and a 20-night run in London that broke sales records.

If that's being a "has-been", then I want to be a "has-been" too.

Let's see if MaryMary's favorite artists of today are around in 5, 10, or better yet 30 years after their debut album. There was a time when the likes of Vanilla Ice and Color Me Badd were outselling Prince. Where are they now?

And if Prince's sound is so "outdated", why is it that Justin Timberlake has managed to sell 3 million copies of an album that blatatly copies (and at times even plagiarizes) Prince's sound of 20+ years ago? I'll bet MaryMary has "FutureSex/LoveSounds" and thinks JT is the shit.

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Hell yeah. That was some kind of fun.

banks said:

He sure did

banks said:

vainandy said:

Yeah, man. I thought it WAS you at first. Then I noticed the name was different.