You realize that you're talking about an individual, whose record label refused to release his music as he the artist, saw fit. Time Warner held up the release of several of Prince's albums due to, I'm presuming here, preserving his marketability. Prince didn't give a damn about that... wanted his music released (the man has practically hundreds if not thousands of completed works in his library).
It got really ugly, and he wanted out. If you recall, when all this was happening, Time Warner released two CRAPPY Prince albums because that was the material they had on hand (I guess he was smart for hanging onto the good stuff), and realized he wasnt going to change his mind. A few years later he resigned with EMI after being granted a great deal of control over his music, not to mention he had NPG Records as well.
The man is one who truly loves music for the sake of it being music; he's not a commercial artist that is duped by the studio into believing that thier superstardom will fade if some "college kids" trade songs. He knows that if the fans dont want his stuff, they won't get it. SO what. It's art. At least to him. To the cartels ERRRR I mean labels, it's money.
OK the VP-translator runs on top of the native OS,and runs almost as fast? hmmm... Virtual Amiga?
I can see it now: "Run this classic OS on your piece of junk PC... just add googles of RAM..."
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You realize that you're talking about an individual, whose record label refused to release his music as he the artist, saw fit. Time Warner held up the release of several of Prince's albums due to, I'm presuming here, preserving his marketability. Prince didn't give a damn about that... wanted his music released (the man has practically hundreds if not thousands of completed works in his library).
It got really ugly, and he wanted out. If you recall, when all this was happening, Time Warner released two CRAPPY Prince albums because that was the material they had on hand (I guess he was smart for hanging onto the good stuff), and realized he wasnt going to change his mind. A few years later he resigned with EMI after being granted a great deal of control over his music, not to mention he had NPG Records as well.
The man is one who truly loves music for the sake of it being music; he's not a commercial artist that is duped by the studio into believing that thier superstardom will fade if some "college kids" trade songs. He knows that if the fans dont want his stuff, they won't get it. SO what. It's art. At least to him. To the cartels ERRRR I mean labels, it's money.
OK the VP-translator runs on top of the native OS,and runs almost as fast? hmmm... Virtual Amiga?
I can see it now: "Run this classic OS on your piece of junk PC... just add googles of RAM..."