A lot of you will remember my post TWO MONTHS ago:
http://prince.org/msg/7/243055

An open letter to Prince
Dear Prince,

I have been a fan since 1982. But I must say that after 25 years of listening to your music and following your every move, I am officially done. One person can take only so much crap from an artist that likes to think he is different than the Recording Industry that he fights so often.

What do I mean by this? Well you have said that you are a "slave" to the evil record company and that you were not born to do their bidding. A lot of people were on your side and understood and still understood what you were fighting for. And I commend you for attempting to change the industry.

But by you attacking INDEPENDENT fan sites, that are there to build and drive communities where the sole subject is you, is ludicrous! And it makes you no better than the companies that you "slave" to. Prince wants to control everything that has his image, nay his name on it. What is next? Are you going to attempt to trademark the word Prince, so no one can use it in a sentence? This sounds ridiculous, but so are you for demanding these sites to take down images of you as well.

If I ran sites like Housequake.com or Prince.org, I would simply shut them down. These sites generate tons more traffic than your 3121.com does. (By the way, everyone knows it is horrible design sense to use only flash for one's website.)

Shut them down I say, and let's see who's talking about Prince this time next year.

Start listening to your fans, and stop treating them like criminals. The Prince I grew to love and follow was a maverick, not a dictator.

You have become our Warner Brothers Records, and your fans your "slaves". But not me, not anymore.

Now this posting pissed a lot of people off, and a lot of you said I was wrong for writing it.

Well I hate to tell you "I told you so.", so I won't

Too bad it took this for Prince to write a GOOD song.

Why are all the Housequake rejects suddenly popping up over here?

wlcm2thdwn said:

Ah, I've been a member of Prince.org way before Housequake.

And what does that have to do with anything?

but yet....here you still are....
hmmm....interesting.

and it's not like if all the sites were shut down all those folx would just cease being fans....they'd go to 3121 ...even you...if it were the only thing to go to. I don't want that to happen and I don't think it will, what will really happen is many will go to 3121, and then new underground sites would pop up again...might be a good thing. I love the org but even it has grown into something else in recent years.

probably was enuff 2 push him over the edge AGAIN...now look wot u did!

Shorty said:

There it is right there! They can't leave no matter how hard they try

We have several threads already posted which deal with this subject. Please take this discussion to one of those threads. Thanks.