I still haven't bought Prince's New Album, ... I remember back in the day ain't no way I would let this many weeks past without buyin a New Prince Album. Now I have, I guess its old age and the thrill is gone, hee hee

Anybody else use to do the same, be quick to buy his releases but now when ever I get around to it. hee hee

Astasheiks said:

I still haven't bought Prince's New Album, ...

you're an idiot,

Art Official Age is a strong album, Prince's best in many years...

Now go out and buy it and support the artist.

Yes I can relate. I used to buy the new albums the first few minutes they were released. I would be there with the wrecka stow opened, if necessary.

But I haven't even listened to the Plectrum album yet and listed to Art Official Age about a week after it was released, and only one time. Just not very good.

So yes we have gotten older and changed a great deal, but also Prince's music is nothing like it used to be, quality wise.

I remember a time when,I would have trouble sleeping on the night before a new Prince album was released.So much excitement and anticipation! I like a few tracks on AOL but I haven't bought the album yet.Maybe I still will,but I'm in no hurry.

thedance said:

you're an idiot,

Please explain how this makes Astasheiks an idiot?

It's just music, not a life or death situation.

bigd74 said:

I wish I had never bought AOA or PlectrumElectrumjaculation............so, I wish I were you.

3rdeyedude said:

I wish I had never bought AOA or PlectrumElectrumjaculation............so, I wish I were you.

I second that. Buying these albums were a fucking non-sense, AOA have not even a booklet in it. Had I listened to them before I wouldn't have done that. The bad or good news of the thing is that nobody will ever release a Prince album anymore.

paisley3121 said:

I only like one song off of the entire project and thankfully I was able to purchase that one song from iTunes. Long gone are the days of my supporting his every ill-conceived whim with my hard earned cash...just because. I'll pay ONLY for what I actually like and want, not a thing more.

SuperSoulFighter said:

I've got AOA, but not PE. €45, that was too much. (although I happily spent €120 on Dylan's Basement Tapes. If only P would do something like that, but even a PR remaster in the right year seems to be 2 much 2 ask ) So yeah, the excitement isn't really what it used to be. That said, AOA is an okay album, not a waste of your hard earned cash at all.

Have you ever saw a physical album, besides Prince with no booklet ? That's a fucking thievery.

MIRvmn said:

It's amazing how Prince can release two so different records at the same time, Plec his most awful album ever and AOA his best in years

True, AOA is his best album in 4 years

thedance said:

Astasheiks said:

I still haven't bought Prince's New Album, ...

you're an idiot,

Art Official Age is a strong album, Prince's best in many years...

Now go out and buy it and support the artist.

The album is shit, except for 3 tracks. It's the first album I haven't bought, and I'm a hardcore fan since 1988. Don't support shit music.

[Edited 11/24/14 11:12am]

RODSERLING said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

I've got AOA, but not PE. €45, that was too much. (although I happily spent €120 on Dylan's Basement Tapes. If only P would do something like that, but even a PR remaster in the right year seems to be 2 much 2 ask ) So yeah, the excitement isn't really what it used to be. That said, AOA is an okay album, not a waste of your hard earned cash at all.

Have you ever saw a physical album, besides Prince with no booklet ? That's a fucking thievery.

Yes, plenty of them!

TwiliteKid said:

RODSERLING said:

Have you ever saw a physical album, besides Prince with no booklet ? That's a fucking thievery.

Yes, plenty of them!

Oh yes, which one please for instance ? Was it sold in a cheap digipack too ?

SuperSoulFighter said:

I've got AOA, but not PE. €45, that was too much. (although I happily spent €120 on Dylan's Basement Tapes. If only P would do something like that, but even a PR remaster in the right year seems to be 2 much 2 ask )
So yeah, the excitement isn't really what it used to be. That said, AOA is an okay album, not a waste of your hard earned cash at all.

Ladies & gentlemen... THE FANS OF PRINCE!!!

RODSERLING said:

TwiliteKid said:

Yes, plenty of them!

Oh yes, which one please for instance ? Was it sold in a cheap digipack too ?

Off the top of my head: Blue Rodeo's In Our Nature, the latest She & Him album, everything Arts & Crafts and Paper Bag records release, etc. I don't actually buy CDs anymore (I've switched to Vinyl), but I'm sure I could find many more if I dug through my collection.

And yes, most of those are digipacks - as is the industry norm these days.

come on. Both are very solid, non-embarring endeavours. Just buy them already.

Got the CDs day 1 at a brick n' mortar, LPs are in the mail!!



is it just me, or is it the same people going on about how the new albums aren't selling the same people that refuse to buy it

djThunderfunk said:

Got the CDs day 1 at a brick n' mortar, LPs are in the mail!!



is it just me, or is it the same people going on about how the new albums aren't selling the same people that refuse to buy it

+1

A new Prince album is still a very exciting event for me, and that's from someone who usually listen to 2 new albums every day. There's no way I'll wait after the release date before I'll get 'em.

What had changed maybe is how long I listen to them intensively. But that can be said for every record anyway: year after year I own more records, rotation becomes heavier and I get bored with listening repeatedly to a record sooner than I used to.

However, a real crush can still happen: I've listened to the Lotusflow3r trilogy like mad for a good 4 months back then and that was only 5 years ago. I still listen to AOA and Plec on a regular basis even though it's not every day.

TwiliteKid said:

RODSERLING said:

Oh yes, which one please for instance ? Was it sold in a cheap digipack too ?

Off the top of my head: Blue Rodeo's In Our Nature, the latest She & Him album, everything Arts & Crafts and Paper Bag records release, etc. I don't actually buy CDs anymore (I've switched to Vinyl), but I'm sure I could find many more if I dug through my collection.

And yes, most of those are digipacks - as is the industry norm these days.

Only "local" albums ? I don't think a non-indie artist ever released an album whose album's weight is so light than AOA.

[Edited 11/24/14 9:23am]

RODSERLING said:

TwiliteKid said:

Off the top of my head: Blue Rodeo's In Our Nature, the latest She & Him album, everything Arts & Crafts and Paper Bag records release, etc. I don't actually buy CDs anymore (I've switched to Vinyl), but I'm sure I could find many more if I dug through my collection.

And yes, most of those are digipacks - as is the industry norm these days.

Only "local" albums ? I don't think a non-indie artist ever released an album whose album's weight is so light than AOA.

[Edited 11/24/14 9:23am]

Blue Rodeo and She & Him are hardly "local" artists. Do you actually buy CDs people other than Prince? Digipacks have been standard for more than a decade now, and the lack of a booklet isn't uncommon either - pariticularly for albums released by Warner.