I just don't understand how anyone can look at what's happening on EBay, knowing that fans are getting ripped off and that R&K stopped making money when they sold the 7,000th copy, and feel good about it. The only ones that I can see willing to find good out of this are people that have an unwaivering devotion to these guys. I'm sorry if the zombie thing was mean but like I said, my thoughts on this issue are sentiments that I am very well comfortable in feeling, against the grain or not. I feel that it was very mean-spirited, what R&K or Underworld enterprises or whoever did with this. And I'm very non-plussed with them going around at about the time of their revamped website launch, priding themselves on being innovative 21st century musicians and then having a launch that echoes their early 90's launches when they didn't have a fan base, nor did they have a lot of money to work with. So, to me you're either on the fan's side or the artist's, and an artist doesn't have to do anything they don't want to but if you make a conscious decision to chare your music and you have fans all over the globe, continuing to win the hearts of those fans does not involve dropping 7,000 disks on an island 3,000 miles from the U.S. and further (maybe? Don't know but damn far away) from Europe.
Actually, I don't really know what you're talking about concerning Prince. But I'm interested to hear about it.
And you're not retarded, but what we are and what we do are two very different things sometimes. For example, see any of my posts.
But my apologies -- however, your response to this issue seems to be completely nonsensical and dodging the responsibility that a fan, a consumer has. It's ok to voice your disapproval! But you can't do that on a band's forums (ANY band's forums) because of the tunnel-vision that a lot of the posters have. And that I think is complete rubbish. If you were a big fan of Sony and bought a new TV from them and it blew up as soon as you plugged it in you'd complain right? And that's a world-wide and successful company; we're talking about a band that does not make middle-of-the-road music pandering to a small subset of a small subset of the whole worldwide music-appreciating audience. To me it's a social responsibility.
And stauff, I'm 30... and as much as I let my inner-child run rampant on the forums sometimes I fail to hide the fact that I'm getting older.
