Anxiety said:

therat said:

why throw away?

gubbins4ever said:

come on..... be happy..... 3 cd´s cheap price!

CHRISLUV92 said:

prince makes us Aries , happy

myloveis4ever said:

actually, the albums are reported to be available on prince's site as well as at target, so you'll have that option as well.

Who the hell ISN'T near a Target these days???

robertes71 said:

Eh, how about those of us in London and the rest of the world.

blacksweat said:

Especially Austria!

Dave1992 said:

i think that's why it's being offered on his web site as well.

Anxiety said:

I can't see it being limited to his website.

RodeoSchro said:

Lily Allen sold her new CD for $3.99.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music...11-ap.html
[Edited 3/3/09 6:20am]

myloveis4ever said:

Yes he does!

Dave1992 said:

I thought this was some sort of gathering spot for tennis equipment snobs.

YES, finally and what a great price!
Come on March 29th.

ToraToraDreams said:

What?! You mean, this is not the "LMOP" (Lonely Men's Obsession for Pigeons) meeting? Shit.. and I though I'd finally be able to talk about my little Cindy..

Anxiety said:

But we want hard stuff over here too!!

Time magazine article:

Prince and Target: Match Made in Discount Heaven

http://www.time.com/time/...topstories

Tuesday, Mar. 03, 2009
By Josh Tyrangiel

When you think of Prince, do you expect to get more and pay less? Probably not, but that hasn't prevented Target, the 1,677 store discount chain, from striking a deal with his royal funkiness to be the exclusive retail outlet for Prince's new three-disc set. The Prince collection features two predictably tough to spell-check original studio albums, LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND, and a third record, Elixer, which will introduce the world to Bria Valente, the next in the long line of purple protégés.

Target will bundle all three albums together for $11.98, available starting March 29. (See the best 100 albums of all time.)

Other than the fact that both hail from Minneapolis, what brings this odd couple together is one thing: money. Linking up with an exclusive retailer is not a new idea, but of late it's proven to be quite a profitable one, at least for well-established musicians. The Eagles and AC/DC released their most recent original albums exclusively through Wal-Mart — in January, Bruce Springsteen gave the chain an exclusive greatest hits set — and each benefited from massive in-store promotion and stop-the-cart placement; AC/DC's Black Ice sold 1.92 million copies to rank as the fifth best-selling album of 2008. Paul McCartney also saw some of the best sales of his solo career when he struck a less exclusive deal with Starbucks and its record arm Hear Music. (See the best and worst grammy performances of 2009.)

While no one on the music or retailing sides is desperate to reveal the price tag of an exclusive rights deal, several sources indicate that bands have received in the mid-six figures to fork over their music and participate in promotion.

As interesting as Prince's new music is likely to be — and through all of his experiments and career meandering, he's never made a dull album — the marriage of musician and retailer is just as intriguing. The upside for Prince is obvious: in an era when record sales continue to slide, there's nothing quite as sweet as cash up-front, even if it does mean your face on a big cardboard display right next to the Swiffer. For Target, there's a small element of brand burnishing — Prince likes us! — but the music is primarily just one more product to seduce shoppers into stores.

Whether Target sees an uptick in sales of purple linens remains to be seen, but each of these rock and retail experiments brings the future of the record industry into slightly sharper relief. And for mature acts who can bring an upscale fan base into stores, that future appears to be brightening.

I see this as his way of doing a Radiohead. While not exactly letting the consumer choose the price they will pay for the releases, 3 cds at 11.98 or so is the same as payng about 4 per cd. Which is what Radiohead's In Rainbows received upon average wasn't it?

He gave away one release, now this. And the material is good quality as well form all acounts heard. Just like In Rainbows. So he kind of one ups that scenario by releasing more material in almost the same way.

Fuckin Prince. Always one step ahead of the game

Wow, FANTASTIC news!!! I really didn't expect a release date that early after the hype dying down recently!

I'm also surprised about him releasing all 3 albums at the same time!

March 29th, the Sunday?? Does that make sense?

DigMeNow said:

Cinnie said:

Why wouldn't it?

Where is target in Europe?
In other words: what deal does P have for us, non-US inhabitants?
We don't get any love?

CarrieMpls said:

Cuz most releases come out on a Tuesday and sometimes a Friday I thought, just due to distribution schedules.

udo said:

It's easy, Udo. Get a hundred European Orgers to chip in 30 Euro each.
CarrieMPLS fills a suitcase with our CDs and flies over, posting them from somewhere in Europe.
We get our hardcopy music and she gets a free European vacation.

Everyone's a winner!

udo said:

Was you in Europe in 2007? We got loads of love.

PopeLeo said:

I'm IN!

Cinnie said:

ah, yeah, this is totally outside normal distribution channels. It's all Target. So it would fall under their schedules.

vinx98 said:

that's just wrong

eaglebear4839 said:

same here in fact that's the 1st album i'm popping in when i get it