Idolator

While Prince was collecting a giant paycheck in the Hamptons this weekend, he was also—perhaps through some sort of purple magic—singlehandedly destroying the British music industry, if you believe the London newspapers today. Across the British newsstands, nearly every paper that was not packaged with a free full-length Prince CD on Sunday decried the act as an assault on retailers and the industry as a whole. While one could question the ability of the Daily Mail's peers to fairly assess a marketing move by one of their competitors, the real question is "what now?" More »