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…. of scarcity and abundance (and the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince)

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You’ll remember that Prince famously gave away his last album as a cover mount with the Mail On Sunday and, whilst the music bigwigs threw their hands up in horror, a few of us contemplated that the purple one really understood the new economics of scarcity and abundance – particularly after seeing him live.

Last week Prince announced that his 3 new albums – LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and Elixer – will be sold as a triple disc set and will probably retail for less than £10 in the UK. Value indeed (even though he only sings on the first two). However consider this … according to the Guardian, Princes other release in 2009 will be … “21 Nights :The Prince Opus, comprising a limited edition book and iPod, has been announced with a price-tag of £1,500″.

Now £1,500 should buy you a one hell of a book and indeed the report claims “its a massive 280 pages, almost two feet wide, and weighing 17kg”. The book documents Prince’s 21-night stand at the O2 arena in 2007, interspersed with lyrics, poetry and photographs by Randee St Nicholas. A engraved iPod, pre-loaded with Prince’s Indigo Nights live album and a special 40 minute film “made by Prince”, documenting the O2 residency is also included in the package. Only 950 sets will be made available and one lucky “buyer” will win a flight to LA for a private Prince gig.

That’s a smell over £1.4m just on the “special offer” and before any album sales

…. of scarcity and abundance or what ?

Google flexes its considerable muscles

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In a move that some would say smacks of an excessive show of strength, Google have pulled music videos from the UK version of YouTube as part of an ongoing dispute with the Performing Rights Society.

YouTube claim that the new charges from the PRS, following the expiry of the previous deal, are excessive and for their part the PRS claim that Google’s actions to pull videos from YouTube came in the middle of ongoing negotiations.

Whatever the rights and wrongs here, this one looks like its gonna run for a while and, once again, the only loosers are the UK music loving consumer.

Come on – sort it out girls

Click here for the full article from The Guardian

Some things never change – just the faces and the names

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Edit – Unfortunately YouTube keep taking the full version down due to terms of use violations. Here’s a lesser edit however the lyrics were…

Every bomb you make, Every job you take
Every heart you break,Every Irish wake
I’ll be watching you

Every wall you build, Everyone you’ve killed
Every grave you fill, All the blood you spill

Oh can’t you see, You belong to me
There’ll be a bill to pay, On that judgement day

For every empty plate, Every word of hate
Those who subjugate, Those who violate
I’ll be watching you

Oh can’t you see, You belong to me
There’ll be a bill to pay, On that judgement day

For every empty plate,Every word of hate
Those who subjugate, Those who violate
I’ll be watching you
Those who subjugate, Those who violate
I’ll be watching you