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Prince to give away new album for FREE! F.U. Record Industry!

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RayB:
You guys are really naive if you think Prince isn't getting any money for this deal. The newspaper it's being distributed through is paying for them. They're getting all this publicity and anticipating higher than normal sales of the paper. This also means they can charge more for the advertising within.

So yeah, to the end-user it's "free" but to the artist and the paper, this is actually a very smart business deal.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on June 29, 2007, 11:56:45 am ---Prince, in particular, has had an ongoing feud with the suits for a long time now. Originally, that's why he changed his name to "Symbol" or "Artist Formerly Known As Prince". It was genius, if you know the story.

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That the reason I stopped listening to Prince in the first place. The whole experimentation thing was too out of whack, even for me.

Joystick Jerk:

--- Quote from: CCM on June 29, 2007, 12:20:20 pm ---I've never been a huge Prince fan, but his last two CD's sold tons of copies.  So saying no one would bye a new Prince album is a little far-fetched.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9547627/princes_3121_tops_the_chart

http://billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000500662&imw=Y

Seems like he has made a pretty strong comeback with his last few releases.

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There has a been a bit of controversy over the sales numbes of Prince's, and other artists, albums. Prince has "given away" his last couple of albums to fans who buy tickets to his concerts. BUT, the cost of the album is actually tacked on to the price of the ticket, so in effect people are buying the album. And since the people that buy tickets to his concerts probably already bought the almbum in question beforehand, then sales of the album are technically doubled right there. Since the Best Selling charts don't care where sales of the album came from, you can really pad your total albums sold number by using this tactic.

koolmoecraig:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 29, 2007, 10:30:10 am ---
In other news - since it's not 1989 anymore - no one would have bought it anyway.  People wouldn't buy a new Prince album if it cost $2 and had a $5 bill in it.

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Well nobody really buys albums anymore but Prince is far from a washed-up relic of the 80's.  His tours consistently sell out to large crowds.  His albums DO sell quite well actually when you consider that he gets absolutely no radio support due to the pop crap that the record companies are spoon feeding to the public.

He is hugely talented.  He plays something like 30 different instruments and I believe he is still #2 on the list of most prolific songwriters behind the great Willie Dixon.  Of course, none of that means anything unless his music is good.  Listen to his newer stuff and you will see that it is as good if not better than his old stuff.

His performance during the Super Bowl halftime show left no doubt that he still has "it".

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on July 01, 2007, 06:26:20 am ---His performance during the Super Bowl halftime show left no doubt that he still has "it".

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Did you not notice when I said pretty much that about 45 seconds later?

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