Why has there been so much controversy about Prince giving out his new c.d. at concerts and counting the sales towards its chart position? This is the old supply and demand principle working in an old fashioned way! Too many music company executives are afraid of new ideas so they throw a legal 'spanner in the works' tantrum.....they are frightened that artists may follow Prince's lead and render them unemployed.....Are new popstars unaware of the old way in which musical artists honed their craft, namely by touring and building up a following.....as opposed to singing in front of Simon Cowell in an ever increasing reality freakshow t.v. special?