Prince: the internet's completely over

UK Telegraph ^ | July 6, 2010 | Emma Barnett

[KevinB]

Prince, the 52-year-old music icon has pronounced the internet dead, refusing to use any digital platforms to distribute his music. Instead the artist has opted to release his latest album 20Ten in CD format only as a cover-mount free giveaway with The Daily Mirror this weekend.

[KevinB]

From the article: "His new album is his 27th release and may be distributed via Warner Brothers in the US – but there will be no downloads available in the world."

No downloads available in the world. LOL!

[KarlInOhio]

Prince, if you don't distribute it on 78s I won't be buying.

[KevinB]

Music ping.

[humblegunner]

Prince: the internet's completely over

Internet: Prince is completely over.

Tie.

[brownsfan]

I’d say Prince is dead... the internet is alive and well. Ummm, well in the sense that it is thriving, not in the sense that it’s a good place!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Interwebs: Prince is completely over

[ponygirl]

Will there be an 8-track version? Then I can roll with Prince in the Malibu.

[Jenny217]

IMO, Prince is over. 45’s rule, dontcha know?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Shirts vs. Blouses. Dig it.

[DCBryan1]

internet

.....from the artist formerly known as "popular".

[Clemenza]

If Mr. Rogers-Nelson really wanted to (bleep) with us, he would release the album on phonograph.

[greatdefender]

So. True! LOL!

[mikrofon]

Apparently, Prince wants to party like it’s 1989...

[earlJam]

Let’s see how fast somebody puts songs from his new CD on LimeWire.

[Army Air Corps]

A wax cylinder recording!

[Theophilus]

Prince is so <1999. The party’s over, he’s out of time, and he’s just hoping somebody gives a rip.

[Las Vegas Ron]

refusing to use any digital platforms to distribute his music. Instead the artist has opted to release his latest album 20Ten in CD format only

Okay!

[a fool in paradise]

PING

[bmwcyle]

Prince who?

[AAABEST]

The internets are very SERIOUS business! When this man speaks, ought to be taken very SERIOUSLY!

[Brett66]

but there will be no downloads available in the world-that he approves of.

[nhoward14]

I refuse to purchase this album unless the music is sung with flag semaphores or an aldus lamp.

[wagglebee]

Prince had two decent, but REALLY OVER-HYPED albums nearly thirty years ago, what makes him think anyone cares what his opinion is.

[BitWielder1]

Prince is still around? Haven't heard anything new for years.
Michael Jackson is dead and still more productive than ol' strange glyph.

[KarlInOhio]

Prince invented the analog compact disc.

I'm going to party like it's 1999.129381.

[TSgt]

He's big in Japan!

[PLD]

I thought he, it was dead..

[a fool in paradise]

Tech Know: A journey into sound (steampunk compilation to be released as cylinder recording) (BBC News Thursday, 27 May 2010)

[Crimson Elephant]

He may be right after DHS, Australia and Europe get done with it. We are very close to Orwell territory.

[AppyPappy]

Internet: Prince is so last decade

[Richard Kimball]

Prince is independently wealthy. He can record music as a hobby. His choice of distribution doesn’t matter to him because he doesn’t need the money. I don’t know what the future business model for music is, but the fact that Prince is choosing to use a distribution method that is dying says more about his leaving the world of trying to produce a profit from his music than about future distribution methods.

[cynwoody]

From the article: "His new album is his 27th release and may be distributed via Warner Brothers in the US – but there will be no downloads available in the world."

That will hold until the first rip and upload.

The only way to prevent downloads is not to release.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I thought he, it was dead..

Well...he is...if you think about it.

[South Hawthorne]

Shirts vs. Blouses. Dig it.

Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?

[tlb]

Prince lost the page when he dissolved his backup band “The Revolution”. Wendy and Lisa had carried Prince for years. This is just more of the same.

Wendy & Lisa - Waterfall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdfAhCG3oDo

[Red Badger]

Wax cylinders would be okay...............

[Moose Burger]

Well, there won’t be downloads, I can believe that. That’d need someone willing to do the downloading.

[GeronL]

Aging celebutard.

You can find the new album on bit torrent I bet.

[dforest]

Had a great Super Bowl halftime show a few years ago.

Oddball, but one of a kind.

[Yardstick]

I kind of like the screw-modernity contrarianism of this.

[Stultis]

refusing to use any digital platforms to distribute his music. Instead the artist has opted to release his latest album 20Ten in CD format

So. Where do we get the player that reads analog CDs???

[GeronL]

so true.

[major-pelham]

OMG - how could you !

[reagan_fanatic]

Isn’t this the little twerp who’s so short that he forbade his employees to look at him unless he was standing on a platform?

[Focault's Pendulum]

The Rockstar formerly known as Prince

Yep...went over real big!

[Da Coyote]

Hey Prince: ISGAS

“I Scarcely Given a S***, er, an Obama”

[dforest]

I don’t think I will lose sleep over it! LOL

[PLD]

I laughted every time I saw him..

[PLD]

If someone blew on him he would have flown across the stage..Such a skinny little bigger..

[SamAdams76]

File under "Didn't know he was still alive"

He had a few decent songs back in the mid-1980s (Purple Rain era), otherwise I don't get the hype. If I had to listen to 1980s music (awful decade for music by the way), I'd pick Thompson Twins and Flock of Seagulls over him.