Prince Primes Pirates For Huge Download Fest With 20Ten

This week will see the release of Prince’s new album. The ten-song offering which kicks off with a track called ‘Compassion’ will not be available in bricks and mortar record stores.

In an interview with the UK’s Daily Mirror tabloid – which will be giving the album away for free in a covermount promotion this week – Prince explains why the likes of iTunes and other digital music stores won’t be getting the track either.

“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it,” he explained.

“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you,” he added.

While the album is also set to be given away with other newspapers, such as Het Nieuwsblad and De Gentenaar in Belgium and Rolling Stone magazine in Germany, contrary to claims by Prince, 20Ten will also be available for free via thousands of Internet outlets.

Sometime soon, probably before the planned release date of July 10th, 20Ten will be all over BitTorrent, Gnutella, dozens of one-click hosters, Usenet and file-sharing blogs worldwide and not one of them will have paid Prince the kind of advance he expects but didn’t receive from iTunes and other digital stores. With nowhere else but from a newspaper in limited numbers to get the album, Prince fans will turn to the web in their millions.

At this point in the final paragraphs one would normally sum up the news. “Prince is crazy for slamming the Internet and digital devices” or maybe “Prince is a hero for giving his music away” but in this case it’s quite difficult.

“I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music,” he told The Mirror and strangely, by completely shunning the Internet with the release of 20Ten, what Prince has done is given this “outdated” network a golden opportunity to distribute his music on a scale worthy of an artist of his stature.

So where can people download this album right now? Well, it seems, absolutely nowhere. Despite the fact that almost 100% of albums leak weeks before their planned release date, 20Ten remains stubbornly offline with just 4 days to go.

Article from: TorrentFreak.

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i swear to god, every second thread in this forum has been a duplicate for

at least two weeks now. doesn't anybody bother to read the stickies at all

having said that, i don't mind multiple posts. it gives you a chance to see

some bits of news you might have missed in those blizzard stickies. just

gets funny when you see the same article pop up more than two times in

a single day.

^I was just about to say, wasn't this a thread already? Plus, how many threads to do we need to have to talk about Prince's comments about the internet? This is ridiculous.

purplecam said:

^I was just about to say, wasn't this a thread already? Plus, how many threads to do we need to have to talk about Prince's comments about the internet? This is ridiculous.

nope

Jakeasaurus said:

There are way too many stickies in Music and More for 20Ten. It is a disorganized jumbled mess and people are posting so many dupe threads because there are too many stickies to look in to see if a post has been made. I suggest that someone consolidate the threads into one, two, or three 20TEN threads covering various topics, such as one for the release methods( all of them in one thread ) , one for magazine covers/interviews, and one for reviews of the album. As it currently stands, it is sloppy and poorly thought out.

indeed. but i think the mods are waiting until saturday and then they will just open up a new

sticky for the album discussion and de-stickify the other ones.

dupe....

lezama said:

dupe....

Nope..

Please use a sticky. Thanks.