great news for the world i reckon. i always have faith that one day soon the mighty love-dwarf will return to form and world domination. yay!

so the purple prat is about to return is he.

not being a major fan (you may have already guessed) surely his going back on a pledge not to use major labels is all about money and he has subsequently sold out?

he had his day and he was selling record to his fans so why should he need to so it?

Its about the music buddy, stop trying to make it about the money you evil little corporate cockgobbler. Oh and, you might want to take a shot at the pixies if you are talking about money.

I think we've been here before, and his name is George Michael.

*huff*

When I saw the headline, I was anticipating the gleeful singing of Prince Philip to BMG. How disappointed I remain.

He never stopped using major labels, he just didn't sign up. Since ditching Warner Brothers, he's tended to license individual albums out. The web only stuff was just a load of MP3s.

Mind u, he's only had one number 1 in this country and he put that out himself.

there's more to prince than any little shitty indie band out there including anything on the cover of NME and Q.
Prince's influence is all over the charts - OutKast, Alicia keys, Scissor Sisters and even the Foo Fighters are having an album track radio hit with their cover of Darling Nikki.

like Prince says: get an education before you buy a pair of shoes.

Whichever way you look at Prince and George Michael, its a sell out. The guys who were "rebels" against the labels, have both caved it for money and/or chart success.

They followed Bowie. Whats next Shares in Prince?

Sad.

Prince fans should download the track by Boy With A Toy on the website

Who gives a fuck what label he's on, whether he's sold out, blah de blah de schmindie blah? He's Prince, and he's a genius, and the World needs him more than ever now that Beck's off being country sad ballad man. Anyway, his purpleness is far too busy to do the whole One Man Record Company thing, what with spreading The Word in a door-to-door stylee and all.

And leave George Michael alone. He's great and you love him. And his anti-war single was pretty bold, if utterly shite.