ARock said:

This is just an open discussion. I personally would love it if he went the route that Jack White's record label Third Man Records does his Vault subscriptions. Charge $60 quarterly this gets you: Vault Package with unreleased vault material sent to you quarterly. usually includes: 12" record 7" record A bonus item (photo book, DVD, poster, shirt) Live-streamed concerts Exclusive Pre Sale concert tix Access to exclusive merchandise I have gotten a few vault packages from JW and they are awesome. I would love to see Prince do something similar. I missed out on the NPGMC seeing as I was a teenager when it was out. It would almost be the same thing but with continuous packages. What would you want? Do you want the NPGMC back, the Third Man Records/Jack White model, or something else? Let's discuss!!!

I think, no matter the specifics, that Prince will have problems with a subscription set up... I think it will hard to get people to sign up initially (because of past disappointments) and that an initial poor turnout will lead to an early lack of interest from his side.

I'm not sure what would work--I know that many people would get material from other sources than the man himself if he begins selling online (my preference, honestly).

Simply release it on cds...no 40 minute Crystal Ball cds, put 75-80 min of music on each disc

and FLAC and 320 Mp3.

Problem is, this project is not likely. Whatever extras we get on the remasters will likely be it

Prince just doesn't care about old songs unless he decides to remake them like Extra Lovable, Large Room, etc.

It would be best both for prince and the fans if he did a bootleg series like Dylan. Nice multi disk sets with outstanding packaging. We would all love the downloads but we all know how easy that is to get for free. A nice package will make it collectable and prince will get paid and we the fans can finally have pristine copies of all the great out takes and of course a nice live show series as well.

I just read Prince and release in the same sentence, that.s some comedy gold right there.

I don't care what or how, I just would like something.

TrevorAyer said:

It would be best both for prince and the fans if he did a bootleg series like Dylan. Nice multi disk sets with outstanding packaging. We would all love the downloads but we all know how easy that is to get for free. A nice package will make it collectable and prince will get paid and we the fans can finally have pristine copies of all the great out takes and of course a nice live show series as well.

this would be a win-win situation for Prince and the fans.

I think the subscription isn't a good idea because of many people's negative past xperiences with this system (lifetime NPGMC membership, lotusflow3r.com).

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A huge online store on a pay per purchase system would be much better. One that gets a monthly update with loads of new material added (at least a full show or an album or an album's worth of content) and every official album made available as well.

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THAT would b my dream

Whoever's in charge would want to maximize profit, so I could see some actualy full albums of "A" material (Empty Room, Glamorous Life, Wedding Feast 12"), then have a subscription service for us lunatics who want it all.

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He could go full Tupac and have an album every year for the rest of most of our lives, and still have a subscription service that released stuff for the diehards.

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It's really astonishing when you think of how much quality stuff is floating around, and how much isn't!

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Hell, "The Work" is up to like 30 discs, and even if you said half of that was garbage ("My Little Pill sung by Julie Kavner Funk Version Take 4"), you still have 15 discs, of which only half are Gangster Glam remixes.

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billymeade said:

Whoever's in charge would want to maximize profit, so I could see some actualy full albums of "A" material (Empty Room, Glamorous Life, Wedding Feast 12"), then have a subscription service for us lunatics who want it all.

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He could go full Tupac and have an album every year for the rest of most of our lives, and still have a subscription service that released stuff for the diehards.

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It's really astonishing when you think of how much quality stuff is floating around, and how much isn't!

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Hell, "The Work" is up to like 30 discs, and even if you said half of that was garbage ("My Little Pill sung by Julie Kavner Funk Version Take 4"), you still have 15 discs, of which only half are Gangster Glam remixes.

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Us lunatics is the target audience here. The internet have modified the cultural market in a major way in the sense that due to universal access of virtually everything, a much bigger share of the market is now accessible to niche audiences and niche audiences are going to become a more and more important part of the general audience. Back in the days when u had to roam in 10 record stores in the capital city of your european country where you didn't live in the first place to maybe be lucky enough to find one of the 50 imported copies of an American CD or LP by André Cymone, in the end the sales suffered from this lack of availability because for one thing people were not so easily exposed to the product and the happy fews who knew about it couldn't find it so easily. Now anyone in the world can discover an obscure artist through their Bandcamp or Facebook account and any of those people who like it can order the CD on Amazon or download it on iTunes in a few minutes. This is also true for books, movies, etc. So basically there is a major shift of paradigm where all of a sudden niche works of art are universally available to niche audiences all over the world.

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tab32792 said:

As much as I hate to admit it, questlove is one of us so I think if he and Alan Leeds had control over vault material, I think it would be in good hands lol. Live, video, etc.

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I've experienced Prince's questionable online business ventures. No thanks. Just sell me some CDs and I'm good.

S3V3N said:

I've experienced Prince's questionable online business ventures. No thanks. Just sell me some CDs and I'm good.

CD's are sooooo 90's

Can't see Prince in his lifetime seriously and steadily releasing archive material. More worrying is to think about WHO will inherit his legacy and what they'd do with it.

a paisley extravaganza...whoreds of people to listen at infinite listening parties....

a series albums like Vault:OFFS, no messing 12 songs, 1 every 6 months

I think he should release them through FBG, & act like he's pissed about it. I mean, would Prince release his outtakes uncut any other way???