IT's Fantastic...Go there and See what I mean . You will be Soo Excited. Prince and the Gang are Right on. This is the Best Site I have seen of his...You are Gonna love it.....MUSICOLOGY!!

Wow. The site is so much more user friendly. I like it!

Not all of us are members...

bluelight said:

What kind of jackass makes an artist site completely inaccessable to non-PAYING members, anyway? Funk him.

I like it and it seems easier to navigate around at least, but WHY oh WHY doesn't he open the doors to non-paying members, and keep certain areas for the paying members?? Especially now there must be thousands of people who having seen him on telly recently and are thinking, "why don't I go check out his web site?" then probably come back thinking, "once a jerk always a jerk". Let people IN! Its OK for me, I'm a member, but I don't know of many other web sites that I can't share out to people without saying get your credit card out! Anyway, I'd hope whichever major label signs him will be smart enough to have a web site for the casual browser as well.

the weekends definitly sound most-promising!

It's far, far, far better.

BlaqueKnight said:

my thoughts EXACTLY!!!

There should most definitely be at least a limited-access section for non-members. How else do you decide you want to join? And he could be selling merchandise and albums as well.

Would that really complicate things for him, so much?

MightBQueen said:

Yeah..this is the fucked up thing...the ONLY part of the website accessible to NON paying members is the fucking retail section. That tells you what he "really" thinks...

Why can´t u stop discussing this fuckin 25$ membership?!?
I think it is ABSOLUTELY okay, look @ other sites from musicians, they r more expensive and not really better...
If u can´t afford 25$ 4 an unlimited Club experience than I can´t help u!

Peace

FiveFootNine said:

i was just about to say, there must be a non member bit coming soon cos he's letting em buy musicology tracks...oh well, only retail. thats abit harsh! he should open musicology section so they can listen to tracks from his other albums! surely thats a good idea, its not like members need that section so much!

BlaqueKnight said:

someone who has $$ as a priority?

Philly76 said:

Can I get an "amen"?!?

NPGLOVER said:

Fuck no!!!! sorry...ya'll need to put the purple kool-aid down for a min..and think about what you guys are saying. (And I mean "really think"...)

Hang on, you can't seem to download reflection stuff anymore - just listen to it (and no pause button) ??

am i missing something?

That sucks.

FiveFootNine said:

The day I pay $25 to visit a Prince site is the day I declare myself a very sad man.

PurpleKnight said:

i joined a few days ago pretty much for one reason: preferential seats.

PurpleKnight said:

Philly76 said:

If you can find ONE, just one other musicians website that offers less to non members than NPGMC then I'll take my hat off to you (not that I'm wearing one).

TheFrog said:

Yeah..which (from last time) you had to pay A WHOLE LOTTA MONEY for those tickets too...ON TOP of the club charges....

doesn't make anysense to me...but, its your life...your money.

PurpleKnight said:

Amen to that

Funny thing is, I've been on the org for three years, and never EVER joined the NPGMC - well - there was that one month, but I'd been doing a lot of drinking... ANYHOW. My sister has joined the NPGMC - so she'll forward their big-news-emails to me occasionally - to which I respond - oh - yeah - I read that at the org LAST WEEK!

I would like to hear the special secret songs, and get some preferrential seats and and after-party, but I'm just not that hard-core with my wallet. I'm just hard core with my ears. And I DO buy his records, so I'm not some cheapass stealing from the man.

But all that having been said - it WOULD be nice to see some sort of promotional information about his upcoming record. But hey - I got the Tavis movie, so, I got what I needs.

AsylumUtopia said:

The day that $25 is too much for me to pay for membership to my favourite artist's fanclub is the day I declare I need to find a job.

OK, could someone just describe the site 4 non-members?

fauxnewbie said:

The day that I fork out any amount of money without knowing what I'm going to get for it is the day I drill a hole in my head.

FiveFootNine said:

That's true and i agree.

But the alternative is sitting further back and feeling principled and, on balance, i'll give the little man his candy this once.

All I can say is that over here in the UK $25 is not very expensive at all - it's about £16 and therefore, from my point of view it's well worth subscribing if you live in the UK.

I agree with machinegun but i did bring up the same idea a few months ago but thats cool!!! lol