Persian said:

I think you're confusing people who buy/share/trade bootlegs with the ones who actually record/press/sell the sets.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 14:09:57 PST 2002 by joeycoco]

I'm not confused

I have every studio album Prince has released, 90% of associated artist albums, i've seen every tour since '88.Who are you to tell me that i can't trade/download what will never be released anyway? (and if they were, yes i'd buy them!)

bootlegs help Prince if anything, so kindly don't preach to me.

thanks.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 8:25:36 PST 2002 by Thecherryloon]

Persian said:

Oh please! Prince has said that,when he was a kid,he collected every James Brown bootleg he could find!! Prince understands a fan's need to hear this stuff.And frankly,I think he himself is at least partly responsible for so much of this stuff "leaking out".Face it,bootlegs are here to stay.

Thecherryloon said:

So what?

I didn't say u can't... I don't want u 2...
but as u can see this bootleg this has really touched a nerve with u bootleggers...R U trying to justify it by this?
My original point was can bootleggers please stop posting bootlegged songs / lyrics posts...

Look at the whingers moaning against what I have said. And u reply with:
Thecherryloon said:[quote]I have every studio album Prince has released, 90% of associated artist albums, i've seen every tour since '88.Who are you to tell me that i can't trade/download what will never be released anyway?

bootlegs help Prince if anything, so kindly don't preach to me.
insinuating if that gives u some legitimacy to do.
What is it with Prince geeks, they wear their fan-dom like its some sort of credential... I've been to blahblahblah since blahblahblah... and I have got blah blah blah

When I started coming to this web site I read some posts slagging off prince fans and as I only ever knew one real prince nut it couldnt really comment, but now after seeing some of the ridiculous stuff that is posted here i think that post slagging off prince fans is being fulfilled.
There are some genuinely interesting and / or funny people on this site is but mostly everyone is excessively vitriolic.

Its a shame cuz this is a great site, well layed out and nciely maintained.

So,you're telling a bunch of Prince fans to NOT discuss his unreleased songs and concerts? What have you been smoking?

Persian said:

Look, this is a Prince site.. People can talk about whatever they want associated with him, and that includes boots.. if u dont like it, simply leave, or if u see a post regarding boots, dont click on it.. u are simply getting yourself in2 everything u ask for, and if that is hearing about people having bootlegs, thats just sad.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 8:59:28 PST 2002 by Sdldawn]

Persian said:

That was the first part of your original post. targeted at bootleggers. That's fine. But with the bootleggers quiet, that still leaves those people who have never bootlegged material in their lives, and have no intention of ever doing so, free to comment on the bootlegged material they own that Prince has yet to release.

And the second part of your original post (about owning bootlegs being illegal) was clearly something you are unable to substantiate.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 12:01:38 PST 2002 by langebleu]

What do u mean "with the bootleggers quiet"
u r all whinging like little babies till...
I suggest a separate forum be started called bootlegs... so u can all chat with each other about them and leave the non-bootleggers alone...

Persian said:

I don't think we need a separate forum to discuss bootlegs.If you don't wanna read about it,then simply DON'T CLICK ON THOSE THREADS! When you see a thread called something like "What are your favorite boots from the 80s?",then steer clear away from it.It is beyond absurd for you to suggest that we refrain from discussing his unreleased work!
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 13:52:26 PST 2002 by DavidEye]

Persian said:

ROFL. As far as I can recall, I have never knowingly chatted to a bootlegger in my life - and I do talk to myself occasionally.

No-one is whinging except yourself.

Everyone else who has contributed is labelled as either a bootlegger and / or a whinger by you because no one agrees with you.

By all means, suggest a separate forum to discuss bootlegs, but if this thread is anything to go on, others see no need for it.

(BTW - you keep misquoting Bahá'u'lláh in your sig - there's no apostrophe in the possessive pronoun 'its'.)
[This message was edited Thu Nov 28 13:53:31 PST 2002 by langebleu]

if you don't think prince has a stack of James brown pfunk, and joni mitchel boots laying around his paisley crib you are triiipin...remember he put movie star on crystal ball cuz d'angelo told him it was his favorite boot...He took that as a compliment..he didn't call the cops on D for having heard it already. If you think there is a serious moral problem with owning boots, then you need to see a doctor to have whatever is up your ass romoved