Rimshottbob said:

Anyway, I'm SO glad Dylan's camp have been great at releasing archive material. It would be AMAZING if Prince's camp could finally cotton on to the fact that THIS is how maintain an artist's legacy, and keep money rolling in.

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We should have gotten all of this from Prince, but he was too busy with his "I'm only looking forward" BS while performing entire tours that didn't feature a single song he'd recorded in the past ten years.

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He always made this big deal out of "I don't care", but then why not give it to an outsider to curate and convert into money? Instead he stuffed it into a broken vault and then it all became near worthless when the music industry collapsed.

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So much wasted time. So much money that he didn't earn and instead went to bootleggers who did provide fans with what they wanted. Meanwhile Dylan already was using his archive as far back as 1985(!) to compile a box set, whereas Prince was sabotaging Warners' efforts to compile a greatest hits in the late 1980s.

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Eight years after Prince's death and there's at least one CD's worth of tracks that have only been released on vinyl and several CDs worth of released tracks that have not yet been released in remastered quality. Let alone all the released tracks from protégé acts which are hard to obtain and haven't been re-released in remastered quality. We're 6.5 months into this year and so far the estate has managed to release three archival tracks in the most incompetent way possible. THREE. TRACKS.