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Thread started 04/20/04 3:58pm

gemini319

PROMO CD VS PUBLIC RELEASE

THE CDS I'VE PICKED UP ALONG THE TOUR ARE THE SAME AS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE IN STORES IS IT NOT? WHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM?
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Reply #1 posted 04/20/04 4:01pm

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gemini319 said:

THE CDS I'VE PICKED UP ALONG THE TOUR ARE THE SAME AS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE IN STORES IS IT NOT? WHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM?

Oh, let's just say packaging, lyrics, artwork and liner notes.
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Reply #2 posted 04/20/04 4:23pm

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The biggest difference is that when I got my promo copy, they didn't ask for my phone number and they didn't try to make me subscribe to Sports Illustrated.

Beast Buy is so obnoxious. rolleyes
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Reply #3 posted 04/20/04 4:28pm

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eugnj420 said:

gemini319 said:

THE CDS I'VE PICKED UP ALONG THE TOUR ARE THE SAME AS THE OFFICIAL RELEASE IN STORES IS IT NOT? WHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM?

Oh, let's just say packaging, lyrics, artwork and liner notes.



Did you say lyrics??? How much different?
I will do today what you won't, so tomorrow I can do what you can't.
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Reply #4 posted 04/20/04 4:55pm

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Reply #5 posted 04/20/04 7:43pm

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The official release - the one you buy in retail stores - contains the "Musicology" video, not to mention lyrics and pretty pictures.

The free disc - the one you get at the concert - is in a cardboard sleeve with no video, no lyrics, no credits, and no pretty pictures.

I don't know about you, but I look at the free one as just that. It was a great way to preview the disc before it came out. It made me look forward to the release even more, despite the fact that I would have bought a CD anyway when they came out... and still plan to.
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Reply #6 posted 04/20/04 7:46pm

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I still say that although I LOVE the idea of Prince giving away the album to concert-goers, I think he totally shot himself in the foot by not adding ANYthing to the official release.

I mean....the Musicology video? It's not like a few years ago, when you would never see a Prince video on TV - I mean, how many of us on here have STILL never seen the Come On video, for example?

Shit, I had the Musicology video burned to my hard drive like 6 weeks ago. wink

And GodDAMN the packaging sucks ass....the flap doesn't close and the booklet doesn't stay inside...how could it? There's nothing keeping it in there!
No confusion, no tears. No enemies, no fear. No sorrow, no pain. No ball, no chain.

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Reply #7 posted 04/20/04 7:48pm

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Is it just me, or is there more bass added to the cd (not the instrument.....the sound)
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