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Old 02-07-2007, 10:34
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Prince's new album will not be available in shops, instead it'll be given away free with the Mail on Sunday on the 15th July.

So, not only are the people seeing him live get a copy for free - everybody does!

Prince rules.
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:11
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It amazes me the amount of backlash the music industry is giving him over this. I remember a while back prince just released via his website........and Peter Gabriel is trying to offer free music with adverts with his We7 company.
It shows Prince wants his fans and other to just hear his music....if they like it they will go buy his stuff in the future, but the way the industry is going on it`ll be the end of the world and no one will every buy a cd again.....

I loved the quote from Paul Quirk, co-chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association;

"The Artist formerly known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores," he said.

classic..........
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:18
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What's a record store?
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:22
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If memory serves, it`s a huge building full of overpriced round discs called, cd`s i think.......
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:53
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I loved the quote from Paul Quirk, co-chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association;

"The Artist formerly known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores," he said.
i think it's a pretty odd thing to do really - and there's something wrong in the world when there's a link from 3121.com to the daily mail's website!

we're going to see him, so will get a copy then, but it'll be good to hear the album beforehand for free now.

as for the quote above - very shortsighted if there might be a new audience interested in buying any of his back catalogue i'd have thought.

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Old 02-07-2007, 21:31
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Mail on Sunday costing £1:40
Order 20 @ £1:40 = £28
Make sure you get them and slap them on eBay @ £5:75 inc. P&P.
They are going to fly out and you make a profit of £72.
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Old 03-07-2007, 10:43
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If memory serves, it`s a huge building full of overpriced round discs called, cd`s i think.......
Ah. There's one of them in my town - sells the round things for £16 when you can get them off the net at less than half that price. Must be Prince's fault they're overpriced.
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Old 03-07-2007, 15:49
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Mail on Sunday costing £1:40
Order 20 @ £1:40 = £28
Make sure you get them and slap them on eBay @ £5:75 inc. P&P.
They are going to fly out and you make a profit of £72.
Well waste your money when most people seem to download music files illegally now anyway!

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Old 03-07-2007, 16:06
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Mail on Sunday costing £1:40
Order 20 @ £1:40 = £28
Make sure you get them and slap them on eBay @ £5:75 inc. P&P.
They are going to fly out and you make a profit of £72.

Won't most people who want the album actually buy the paper? Assuming of course they can get a copy after the greedy barstewards have grabbed 30 copies each that is
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Old 04-07-2007, 07:09
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All my US Prince freinds are up in arms cos us over here are getting 2 opportunities to get Planet Earth for free!!!

The thing is, I am gonna get it on the 15th with The Mail On Sunday, then rip it into my system, then send it to them, so they will get it anyway, before the actual release date of the 24th!!

The thing is, this is a very sad case of "the music is so bad, it cant even be given away"!!

Personally, I feel, that in some ways Prince has sold out!! He must have, in order for him to try every means, fair or foul, in order for people to hear his new music!! His music now is in no way of the same calibre as Sign 'O' The Times, Purple Rain, 1999, Around The World In A Day, Parade, Diamonds & Pearls, The Gold Experience, The Symbol Album, Come, Emancipation, etc.!! No wonder I, for one, download bootlegs!! I have 1000s, of Prince bootlegs!! If any of you want to know how I get them, please feel free to email me on sologold319@yahoo.com and I will be happy to give you all the information!!

Really, I dont mind paying GOOD money, for GOOD music!! But I hate paying for crappy, shitty music from someone who I know is a total genius!!!
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Old 04-07-2007, 13:09
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I have to disagree 100%. I;d disagree more if I could. There's a couple of things people don't realise about this giveaway. For the Musicology gigs in the US a couple of years back, they got a copy of the album with the ticket. Word soon spread it was great and then copies started to fly off the shelf. Not just of that album, but the older ones too.

3121 was a number 1 album here eceb without a visit from the purple one for a few years and also without any real press or radio play. The performance at the Brits was a lot of people's first glimpse of him for a decade or more.

He has a distribution deal with Sony/BMG for the new album - but not in the UK, so the only way we can hear it is if he gives it away. If Sony/BMG hadn't opted out of distribution, then it would be sold in the normal way. In fact, until this week, I had it on pre-order already.

It's going to be a great album if 3121 and the new single (Guitar) are anything to go by.

I have PM'd you though..those bootlegs sound intruiging and I have bought everything he's ever released so I'm aloud some free illegal stuff, right?
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Old 04-07-2007, 13:54
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I think it's cool he's giving it away.
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Old 04-07-2007, 14:18
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Considering the Mail's reputation as news print for little England, I'm a little surprised they would want to be associated with an artist like Prince who's been known to write smutmungous songs. That's pretty funny in itself . They'll be giving away KY jelly next.....
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Old 04-07-2007, 15:25
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Prince has long since disowned his smutty songs and now only delivers and performs his 'clean' stuff since finding God. Again. So he does fit in entirely with the Mail's readership.

Unfortunately.
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Old 04-07-2007, 21:23
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Newspapers should be banned from giving away free CDs and DVDs, not everyone who buys newspapers want them.
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Old 04-07-2007, 21:36
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Newspapers should be banned from giving away free CDs and DVDs, not everyone who buys newspapers want them.
the minority might not want them but you might find that there is a lot of people who will just get the paper for the cd or dvd that is in it that week.

half my cd collection is made up of free cds from out of the papers.
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Old 10-07-2007, 17:29
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That's right,the whole idea behind freebies is to entice you to buy a newspaper that otherwise you wouldn't have purchased. I've used these free cds to source tracks for my i-pod-chiefly the popular sixties and seventies songs that I have on vinyl but didn't have on cd anywhere.

And I've heard that for this edition only the Mail On Sunday will be on sale in branches of HMV!
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Old 10-07-2007, 17:47
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That's right,the whole idea behind freebies is to entice you to buy a newspaper that otherwise you wouldn't have purchased. I've used these free cds to source tracks for my i-pod-chiefly the popular sixties and seventies songs that I have on vinyl but didn't have on cd anywhere.

And I've heard that for this edition only the Mail On Sunday will be on sale in branches of HMV!
No,I think everywhere selling the paper will have the cd inside,or am I wrong
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Old 10-07-2007, 18:23
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No,I think everywhere selling the paper will have the cd inside,or am I wrong

Think they mean HMV are going to be selling the MOS, for this Sunday only.
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Old 10-07-2007, 19:31
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Yes,that's what I mean,HMV will be selling the MoS this Sunday.

Memo to self: check punctuation so as not to leave posts open to misinterpretation!
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Old 10-07-2007, 19:55
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Yes,that's what I mean,HMV will be selling the MoS this Sunday.

Memo to self: check punctuation so as not to leave posts open to misinterpretation!
Yes this is true, HMV will be selling MOS this week, we had a memo at work, they have taken the attitude of if you cant beat them join them!
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Old 11-07-2007, 09:36
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They were laying into Prince last week...oh how the turgid become more so.
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Old 11-07-2007, 11:13
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I really hope i'm able to get a couple of copies on sunday. Sounds like some will be buying as many as they can to sell on ebay
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Old 11-07-2007, 11:13
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They were laying into Prince last week...oh how the turgid become more so.
Who??
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Old 12-07-2007, 12:59
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The retailers association etc. etc. HMV, to be fair, have broken ranks and done a deal with the Mail which is good news but there's still some nobbers on the news moaning about how they backed him when he was an unknown and through recent lean times, having a right go. No-one has yet widley reported that it was Sony/BMG that pulled out of the distribution deal thereby paving the way for this sort of deal.
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