(Original image courtesy of Mirror.co.uk)
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today 2 rail against digital music and iTunes in particular. So says the artist formerly known (and later still known) as Prince, who claims that “the Internet’s completely over.”
9to5Mac is reporting that rocker Prince has finally come forward to do his first British newspaper interview in a decade, where he’s giving away a CD of his next album, 20TEN, this coming Saturday with copies of The Daily Mirror. But despite giving his music away, he’s determined to keep it out of digital outlets such as iTunes.
“The Internet’s completely over,” explains the rock legend. “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.
“The Internet’s like MTV,” Prince concludes. “At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.”
We’re guessing there must not be any Apple or AT&T retail stores near Paisley Park in Minneapolis, otherwise The Purple One might have changed his tune (pun intended) after seeing the mobs of people trying to get their hands on the new iPhone 4 -- which, last time we checked, requires iTunes to actually use…
(And before you comment about it: Yes, there’s already a ton of Prince music available on iTunes, but most of that is owned by Warner Bros., the label that he famously worked overtime to extract himself from back in the late ‘90s.)
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SpaceTrucker
July 06, 2010 at 2:13pm
It's not like he's got any good music beyond his one hit, 1999, anyways so who cares if he can sell his music on iTunes or any other outlet for that matter! And digital music both in cloud form and physical form on micro devices, (MicroSD, etc,) is the future, not his outdated CD's, get real Prince of nothingness, there's nothing to your B.S. either! Outside of my DVD/CD player in my computers, I don't even own one anymore and what CD's I still have are older than most of the teenagers, (and the crust in his underwear,) listening to anything he still has to say!
randoo53
July 06, 2010 at 1:44pm
Wanna take a guess on which dies out faster...the internet or your career?
Oh wait...too late on that. My bad.
ScottB
July 06, 2010 at 12:40pm
“The Internet’s like MTV,” Prince concludes. “At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.”
I wonder if he knows the other classic quotes:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981.
scottrey
July 06, 2010 at 10:18am
to sportmac, your own link shows that gore was quoted saying "...I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Of course we all know now that is not what he meant but it still an unfortunate mishap on his part that still is funny, just as Dan Quayle's potatoe.
sportmac
July 06, 2010 at 7:56am
let's stop this "al gore invented the internet" stuff ok? he never said it and to continue to push it is silly.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
choirguy
July 06, 2010 at 7:35am
I live in the Twin Cities area, and even once interviewed for a principal who had Prince (or whatever name he's gone with lately) as a student.
Prince had a unique and significant sound in his time. Since all the "formerly known as" hoopla, he's been a distraction--not an artist.
If anyone has heard the song that he wrote for the Vikings last year, inspired by their play...you'll understand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDs3U9IeYg0
If his new album, 20TEN, has great hits like "Purple and Gold," we'll all be better off if it isn't in the iTunes store.
Of course, the issue is that Prince wants to be paid BEFORE distribution (old model) instead of after distribution (new model), because if his album stinks, nobody will buy it.
As another former Minnesotan once said, "Straight Cash, Homie." (Randy Moss).
And this business about the Internet being over...somebody better call both Al Gore (who invented the Internet, of course) and Steve Jobs...
And here we thought Flash was the issue...nope...the whole Internet is just a passing fad!
