“Last week, Prince announced that he was going to release his latest album 20Ten as an add-on to European newspapers and an upcoming issue of German Rolling Stone,” Daniel Kreps reports for Rolling Stone.
“In an interview promoting the release with England’s Daily Mirror, the iconic songwriter reveals his improbable motive for the choice: he hates the Internet,” Kreps reports. “‘The Internet’s completely over,’ says Prince, who will not sell his new album via iTunes or Amazon. ‘I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.'”
Kreps reports, “Prince goes on to compare digital outlets to once-influential juggernauts like MTV. ‘At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated,’ he says. ‘Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: That dude can afford to be as eccentric as he wants to be. If he wants to release his album via helium balloons, so be it. And, if he wants to try to drum up some pub this way, so be it, too.
BTW, iTunes Store pays artists who can sell tracks, not those looking for big upfront advances – *cough* Wal-Mart *cough*.
Prince… you the dude…but
who cares? prince sucks.
Prince who?
At one time Prince wrote some good stuff. He has been lost for over a decade now. I always preferred Prince over MJ back when they were both at their prime.
Hmm, kinda speaks volumes that the album’s actually being given away free in The Daily Mirror on Saturday…
So … the internet is ‘completely over’ and so I’m gonna bundle my CD with newspapers? Cutting edge!!
No wonder he hasn’t been relevant since … no, wait … he (she?) has never been relevant with me.
Magicword: has
Prince is a has been. (or never was)
The Crumudgeon formerly known a Prince.
Prince is over.
To the “artist” formerly known as …. one word – LIMEWIRE
So… Prince is *still* partying like it’s 1999 — before the iPod/iTunes revolution.
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Prince is pretty cool if he’s playing guitar. His singing, to my ears, is almost as bad as his tech punditry.
Prince is a nutty Jehovah’s Witness. They’ve all but declared war on technology. The downfall of humanity, yadah yadah.
If you handed Prince an iPad, he’d probably drop it and run away.
Prince? He’s so last century…
I’m not kidding, and don’t call me Shirley.
OMG — that was Prince I saw in the white shirt, black tie and black pants going door to door in my neighborhood! And I didn’t answer the door! How silly of me!
Little Prince cannot understand this internet thing?
MDN must be Prince fans. I read about this earlier today and was expecting MDN to rip him a new one when I saw it posted here. Personally, I don’t know much about Prince’s music. But this pretty much shows he’s a nutcase that’s very out of touch with reality.
When was the last time anyone heard one of Prince’s songs? Does anyone even consider anything that he does these days to be relevant at all?
Awesome, sounds like he`s turning into a Howard Hughes like hermit, can`t wait to see how that goes.
I declare Prince to be over…..
Oh yeah… and Madonna, too
Prince releases CD. Who sells CD’s anymore? Besides, 10 minutes later it will be all over the Internet. YAWN.
10 years ago this might have been worth a single line mention in a paper..Today, much like his career, it’s irrelevant…
What a self-indulgent pr**k
Is this Prince guy the artist formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”?
Ok so the first hundred idiots will buy the Rolling Stone to get the CD…..then one of them will rip it and put it up for Torrent download and those that give a rats ass will download it and Prince won’t get JACK. Of course none of those idiots will be iPad owners as they’re now getting their mags online and can’t be bothered with traditional PRINT media anymore.
Sounds like sound business to me. Prince should thank God iTunes wasn’t around when he released his hit albums……he’d be working at McDonalds right now if he refused to put them online.