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Dunno... I was high when I started this thread and I can't remember half the shit I was on about [Edited 7/12/10 13:08pm] Wake up children, dance the dance electric... there isn't much time.... who farted?  ...was it u?  | |
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No. "So strange that no one stayed at the end of the Parade..." - Wendy & Lisa's "Song About" on their 1987 self-titled album.
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You mistake "status quo" with "sane opinion". Claiming the sky is purple with yellow dots also goes against the status quo, still doesn't mean it's a worthwhile opinion.
Prince only copies what Sly Stone had been doing 10+ years earlier.
Oh please. Plenty of artists had residencies in concert halls before Prince.
Was done before Prince thought about it.
Metallica and REM has already negociated deals which included this before Prince negociated his $100 million deal. Negociations in which he didn't give a fuck about ownership but did care tremendously about the big bucks and the title of "biggest recording contract ever". © Bart Van Hemelen
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Hilarious. The music biz had this opinion years ago. Guess what happened this year? THE CONCERT BUSINESS IMPLODED.
Hey, how's Prince's European tour going? Oh yeah, IT'S A FLOP. © Bart Van Hemelen
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FYI: Clinton was at least as popular after as before that ridiculous impeachment crap. Because the public knew it was bullshit. You however seem to have fallen for the Republican nonsense hook, line and sinker. Just like you believe the lies, bullshit and hype Prince spews. © Bart Van Hemelen
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Bart, if you didn't like the album you may lose my double teaming..lol All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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Interesting read on Forbes.com:
http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/07/09/prince-is-right-the-internet-is-over/?boxes=businesschanneltopstories
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Prince Is Right. The Internet Is Over.
When Prince says "the Internet is completely over," he has a point.
The artist formerly known as a weird symbol said this in a British newspaper interview earlier this week. The newspaper, The Mirror, is going to distribute several million copies of his latest record inside their paper this week, so he granted them a rare interview. Presumably they are paying him a great deal of money for his music. There will be no Internet downloads, though his CD will probably be distributed via other newspapers in Europe – and, who knows, even in those record store things.
Denizens of the Web seemed to arise in millions to comment on Prince's stupidity. How could the Internet be dead? If you think that, they seem to say, then just send me an email about it – Oh, that's right, you can't, because you think the Internet is dead. But the critics didn't look hard at what he said, which had solely to do with his own professional relationship to the medium.
"The Internet is completely over," said Prince. "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 [the public] gets angry when they can't get [the music]."
New music. For free. With a sense of entitlement. Sorry, you music-pirating websites, but I see his point. Why should people feel like that is an inalienable right? (He also said a few things about harmful addiction to digital devices, but let's stick to his disdain for the free distribution model.) We should cheer Prince. He said outright what others are just acting on. Wired Magazine, which not long ago had a cover story on how great it is that everything is free, just came out with an iPad app that costs $4.99. Time Magazine this week gave up some of its free print content in favor of a pay-based system. It may not work, but Time seems to be gambling that it will make more than nothing.
Moreover, Prince (who has sold over 100 million records in a 30-year career) may know what a lot of people are still learning: In any market, it is important to either deliver abundant commodities cheaply and efficiently, or cater to high-value scarcity. He has done a good job of focusing on the latter.
In that sense, he has the Internet completely figured out. In the digital world, where music is free and we're inundated with easily-duplicated information, what is scarce? Human contact. Things that vanish in time. Things that are handcrafted, or have to be sought out. Things that identify your personal connection to a passion.
That's why, though music is free, U2 can sell concert tickets for $300 or more (a Paris show currently has seats for $930). Concerts are human contact with the band, with other fans, and they disappear after a few hours. Replaying recordings is not the same. That's why Trent Reznor, the lead singer of the band Nine Inch Nails, sells deluxe editions of the band's CDs for hundreds of dollars.
Prince made a lot of money a few years ago by playing expensive, up-close dinner concerts at the Rio in Las Vegas for months on end, and people paid between $120 and $312.10 (for dinner, priced for personal affiliation with Prince's "3121" album.) This week he's at a huge venue in France, where some 22,000 tickets will sell for $106 apiece, and another 3,000 premium tickets go for $157 each.
That's more than tickets for either The Black Eyed Peas or Pearl Jam cost earlier in the week. From Prince's point of view, there's something to be said for making yourself scarce.
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Everyone can try to correct me all they want but I'm still the most well endowed man on the org Wake up children, dance the dance electric... there isn't much time.... who farted? ...was it u? | |
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I agree....
People are getting their panties into a bunch over the literal words and not reading into what he meant...
Of course, the internet will continue to be a viable source of information...that's not what he was talking about.
What he meant was....as a way to distribute music, there are better ways, and I see his point. He just got paid millions...the internet is great for distributing the music, but not for making $$$ while doing it.
Thanks for the laughs, arguments and overall enjoyment for the last umpteen years. It's time for me to retire from Prince.org and engage in the real world...lol. Above all, I appreciated the talent Prince. You were one of a kind. | |
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now that my friend is a 100% pure class response!. | |
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