The name of the song is Lemon Crush. And who cares if people like Prince enough to bootleg his stuff. It’s not like he’s some up and coming artist who’s getting raped by the industry. He’s been around forever…and he’s ALREADY RICH!

“when I’m working at my job-a, I’m the victim, you’re the robb-a.

guess what Prince song that line is from! I guess he was trying to tell us even back then.

“Cymbal Man | 1/29/2008, 4:20 pm EST

That’s funny…the washed up freak still thinks he’s relevant. ”

yeah, he’s so irrelevant that he played the fucking super bowl last year…and tore the thing up.

That being said, I wouldnt want some vendor on the street corner selling sweatshop made shirts with my image on them. Prince has a responsiility to at least stop that aspect of bottlegging.

As for the whole youtube thing and free publicity, wasn’t Prince the one who gave his entire album away in a newspaper not even 9 months ago? So why whine now? How has nobady mentioned that?

The idiot masses have way too short of a memory.

on an off-topic note: fuck the cheating Patriots.

The control freaks’ roots are based in the same way he attempts to control his reproductive capacity. This fellow has had a stillborn child, a broken marraige, probably thousands of sexual encounters with purple protection…I have never seen a case of a person protecting his objects (musical catalog) as if they were his children-indeed, in a way they are. I feel sorry for him, despite that he still looks like he’s 20..he acts like he’s too immersed in his own material love of himself. I guess even musical narcissist playboys need to protect themselves-see also: Liberace’s ‘private’ homosexuality…funny about all those diamond encrusted pianos..you can bet he had bodyguards around it/and him, his life through!!

Gee this place is an unrelenting Idiotfest

Venus is proably a man and the poe 14 years old

Mr. Me, you are a brainwashed tool of the record industry. I’ll tell you what:

How about I do a job for you for a week, then I’ll never show my face again and you can continue to pay me for that job for the next 30 years whilst I sit on my arse and do nothing.

Think about that, then see how you feel about this topic then.

Ripping customers off is ripping customers off. Bottom line.

Fuck Prince…he can take that squiggly symbol of his and shove it up his arse.

Ill tell ya what…

You come do a full week’s work for me, then at the end of the week I tell you Im not going to pay you.

See how you feel about this topic then.

Stealing is stealing-bottom line.

That’s funny…the washed up freak still thinks he’s relevant.

Fuck Prince!!!

Well I agree that to a certain point prince has a right to be upset about the bootlegging However, he has to realize that alot of people have forgotten him and how long has it been since he came out with anything that has topped the charts.When I think of Prince I think about the 80’s and if he doesn’t like the free publicity then well it will be only his committed fans that will remember him. Presently do you think young people will spend the money to purchase his music just to see what it is like???Well he might as well take all his crap off of everthing including music /video stations(Tv & radio)

Any intelligent artist would view the majority of unauthorized internet-based media (like YouTube) as essentially free publicity. It’s not going to stop the true fans from buying authorized, legal copies of his albums. What it does do is it keeps his name in rotation - if it weren’t for the internet and unauthorized uses of his work, I wouldn’t have heard of prince since “purple rain.” damn, even free, i don’t want to listen to his music.

I wish he could still make exciting new music. Now that would be takin’ care of business!

What a bunch of spoiled brats. What ever happened to respect for the artist. Its a two way street.. Prince has always been ahead of the curve and what he said was always respected by the fans when what he was doing was taking on the established music industry. Now, after years of bootlegging etc, he’s making his point to the fans and you guys are reacting like children. Take a moment to give him a bit of respect..
He’s not a little rich kid.. he’s a musician who works for his money .. And more importantly he’s an artist who is always expressing himself honestly.. He’s not a fashion follower.. and now think about how valuable that is to the music culture.
I don’t think he’d be standing up unless this was out of control.

Uh… who is Prince…?

The Pope | 9/15/2007, 6:21 am EST

Fuck Prince! I’ll download his music any time I god damned feel like it! He can kiss my pontiff ass. Hey Kathy Griffin, watch your fuckin’ mouth, you low-rent bitch whore!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ . . .

Is that intended as a representation (or should I say, “misrepresentation”) of the opinion of all women across the board? No doubt, that stereotyping by the comment below was probably written by a guy who has no clue.

Prince is so hot; he can have access to my 3 inputs any time he wants!

I was really shocked by the Pope’s behavior. I never would’ve guessed that he was into Prince or downloading pirated music. Sometimss it pays to stay up all night.

we want the pope. we want the pope. we want the pope.

fuck it, leave the pope thing up. i’ll take full responsibility.

there’s little difference between holiness and debachery when you really look at it.

Fuck Prince! I’ll download his music any time I god damned feel like it! He can kiss my pontiff ass. Hey Kathy Griffin, watch your fuckin’ mouth, you low-rent bitch whore!

I don’t need to know any more about Prince. Enuff of that.

everyone to prince…stop wasting your time and money, unless you enjoy doing this, its a losing battle.

you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool everybody all of the time.

there’s people you can fool part of the time. and then there’s people you can fool over and over and over again!

being too intuitive can also be a problem.

i guess you’re not down with the cameras everwhere culture in which we now live?

trivial matters are not important to know about, especially if they do not concern you.

the real thing is how easy it is to pass by things and not give them a second thought, which we are all guilty of from time to time.

all you can do is try

…or recognizing the unobvious.
then again, do we really want to know everything?

the definition of genius is recognizing the obvious.

it’s true…there are 2 sides to every coin. it depends on one’s own perception. i have the tendency to look beyond the obvious.

your post and mine are both explaining the opposite sides of the same coin!!!

that’s an interesting “unmarketing” strategy.

he created the sign so his record company (WB) would have an extremely tough time advertising his records. he was in an intense battle with the label and wanted out of his contract. the sign was designed to confuse the consumer in such a way that WB wouldn’t be able to make a profit off any new releases.

I wonder if Rolling Stone actually put up an articles giving their “neutral” perspective but subsequently post anonymously as visitors thrashing the artist featured in the article..

It’s an unpronounceable trademarked logo which combines the symbols for male and female. That might explain the high-heeled boots.

well, if prince is hurting for money, he could always fire that guy holding the umbrella in that picture. prince could always just…you know, hold his own umbrella. call me crazy.

Purple Rain handbags are the hot sh*t this fall season!

“Prince feels very strongly about his artistry”… LOL. LMAO!! ROTFL!!! You have to wonder about this, after hearing crap like New Power Soul, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, and Chaos & Disorder.

I think it was a map to michael jacksons bedroom.

Poor Little Rich Kid, what are the children getting paid to make all the merchandise 5 cents a hour. Go back to being a decal or sign or whatever that was.