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Prince to give away new album for FREE! F.U. Record Industry!
ChadTower:
Notice that it's acts that aren't really anticipating huge dollar revenue from the content doing this. If they were sitting on a triple platinum album you can bet they wouldn't be giving it away.
shardian:
Speaking of the Pumpkins, they have a new cd coming out in a few weeks. The new single is awesome. They ditched all the weird crap and went back to their old sound.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 29, 2007, 11:07:28 am ---Notice that it's acts that aren't really anticipating huge dollar revenue from the content doing this. If they were sitting on a triple platinum album you can bet they wouldn't be giving it away.
--- End quote ---
Sure. Part of it is marketing. But there are plenty of less-than-stellar acts that would never do anything like this. So, I think it's a commendable statement against the often heavy hand of the record industry.
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.
ChadTower:
It wasn't genius nearly as much as it was his lawyer telling him "if you want out of your deal, this is what you have to do". It was a freakin' PR disaster, too, making him the butt of jokes for a decade and destroying the artistic credibility he was trying to preserve in the first place... if you believe that was ever his motive.
CCM:
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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