WhenFansCry said:
There are lots of posts aboutrequesting music releases, but I think it is time to be honest about how the Prince community works. Prince fans do not really want official releases. It is too dangerous to the ones at the top.
I am not new to the group. The elephant in the room is usually used to refer to a problem nobody wants to speak about. But let's say it.
A group of happy fews keep an amount of content for themselves. They do not willingly want to share with the rest of the fans. It is not that they cannot, but they refuse because they want to feel superior. They want power over the rest of the world. They have an ego problem. It is like going back to kindergarden "I have this and you don't have that".
People at the top only share when they decide that, in their opinion, they have accumulated enough to share crusts.
You think what is circulating is everything which is outside outside the vault? Sorry but no... it is not true.
If you disagree with this way of working, beware of saying something. You could frustrate those at the top, and nothing would come down anymore.
So a few folks genuinely don't want some material to be released because they would no longer be the only ones who can enjoy it. It is unbearable to them that more fans outside the happy fews get the same material.
I do laugh when I see a few names shouting they want releases. That is because those people have been contributing to the system of sitting on material for a long time.
If you genuinely want releases, stand up and share what you are sitting on.
Release it ALL! Check in hand.
Who cares what a few folks have or think? I certainly don't.