Prince is awesome, although the point of the devaluization of music was interesting. I think it's great that a guy with more than enough money is making music for the masses without profiting a cent from it.

once again, never underestimate everyone in the industry's worship of the dollar.

stores are pissed because they can't sell it and make money.

Prince isn't the only artist who makes cds for stores to sell. If Prince didn't put out any cd, they would be making even less profit, therefore they're at his mercy.
This isn't consistent. There aren't enough major artists that're good enough, and there're too many struggling artists who need to be heard. As long as that's the case, cds will always be bought and sold. There're also lots of artists who make music that can't be "pre-stolen", as the article suggests.
You also can't complain about people downloading your music when they wouldn't have bought it or can't afford it in the first place.
"...the losers will be new artists who are trying to come through who won't have any support from recording companies because established artists are chucking out their music for free."
Wouldn't it be the other way around? Record companies would need to support them, otherwise they wouldn't sell records.
I can only see this as helping, I'm sorry.
And giving the impression that music costs nothing to make is pretty much the only thing I'm against out of all the stuff that's been happening.

And giving the impression that music costs nothing to make is pretty much the only thing I'm against out of all the stuff that's been happening