daPrettyman said:

he is not only determined to have his image removed from youtube but
the past decade's packaging has also been a sneaky campagn to get us
to remove his image from our shelves completely. his discography was
looking very nice up to 1998 and then all of a sudden it's nothing
but digipacks, rave white plastic, download albums and cardboardish
coasters. i gave up. i just put my entire cd collection in a box and
ripped everything to my harddrive. with all the different formats or
special edition cardboard shitties a record collection these days is
more like a landfill than a tidy, easy on the eyes library.

r lyric sheets included?probably not.wish they were.

joelmarable said:

Did u actually see the pic? I'm for $12 we won't.

joelmarable said:

supposidly they will b on the website

squirrelgrease said:

And a copy of Watchtower.

joelmarable said:

Crystal Ball came without lyrics too. P had this site to remedy the situation.

http://www.crystalballcd....rames.html

It's been reported that Lotusflow3r.com will also have the lyrics up and perhaps downloadable.

I like it

i dont think its that bad!
and honestly in the days of IPODS and MP3's, he would be foolish to spend $$ on expensive pkging.

i just wish there was a beautiful pic of P.....

planet earth had a pdf file booklet on the 3121 site as well

alexandernevermind1999 said:

no it'll be free in the Newspaper

squirrelgrease said:

Cool, thank you! So, all the "info" and comments on the lyrics on there were given by Prince? Some sound "too earthy" and straight for me to believe that!

daPrettyman said:

My Planet Earth and 3121 discs are still in almost mint condition...

It's kinda sad though that he doesn't give very much attention to his CDs, both to packaging and mastering.

I've got some great HiFi stuff over here, and it doesn't really love those cheap looking packagings, with mastered-for-really-small-speakers-so-we-put-bass-on-max CDs in it. Now I have to say that most recent CDs (Led Zeppelin Mothership for example) are victims of the loudness war (wikipedia that), but Prince CDs seem to be even worse sometimes (luckily there's some perfect sounding soundboard bootlegs around).

Dave1992 said:

This is the actual Crystal Ball lyric site. Believe it or not.

unkleg said:

Can I complain for for $59.98AUD? .....more than a week later!

squirrelgrease said:

Now that wouldn't require the $77 subscription now would it? ....surely not?

Oh that looks terrible, really cheap.

Hope we get Jewel cases over here.

Would it be possible to see the backside of that tri-fold?

I don't mind the packaging, as long as I can get original high-resolution versions for iTunes art.

Jewel cases are bad for the environment and add cost to the product and shipping. Maybe LotusFlow3r.com will have downloadable CD inserts?

what's cheap about it? looks like most of the cds i buy.

Not that I don't love the jewel cases with CD booklets and all, but right now I don't care if it's on CD-Rs with the the title written in magic marker, just bring on the music!

sexxydancer said:

I know!

I miss the days of vinyl with liner notes that I could read/study while the turntable spun a new record.

But come'on folks... besides being more environmentally friendly to produce (as opposed to plastic cd cases) and cheap of course, this kind of packaging acknowledges that more and more people are buying and storing media digitally.

That's especially appreciated as someone who lives in an apt in the city where real estate & room is too scarce to be occupied with stacks of cds.

squirrelgrease said:

Thanks for reminding me of that site! Best "booklet" he has ever made..
PS: Check out the warning before opening Interactive. The page is so big (180 kb!!!), so you have the option of opening a smaller version...

put that shit in my hand, son!

geez.. that is cheap as fuck looking

Sdldawn said:

Cost.....

Graycap23 said:

yeah i know.. but damn.

Sdldawn said:

The important thing is the MUSIC.

LondonStyle said:

What the f%&k?

Screw me thats nasty packaging.

Sounds like a really good deal with Target have done for Prince.

Just pray that Target doesn't put on a nasty sticker that rips the cover.