Prince giving away his new CD with newspaper in UK

[KeithTalent]

Not sure he would have sold many by traditional means anyway

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=e071227A

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

Good for him I say!

KT

 

[GeneValgene]

lol...way to go prince! stick it to the man!

 

[Maleficus]

Probably the only way he could get anyone to listen to it!

anyway, that's pretty cool

 

[mundane]

Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD(Slashdot) has some related discussion.

 

[imported_Imp]

I'm going to assume the artist formerly known as prince didn't blow all his money on parks and kiddies like the artist current known as the King of Pop? Otherwise, how can he afford it...

 

[jjones]

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimated that overall music sales worldwide fell around 3 per cent last year as a doubling in digital sales failed to compensate for falls in physical CD sales and digital piracy.

Huh?