During an interview with the Mirror Prince said:
“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.”
“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.”
“They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”
I’m going to have to agree with him. I mean, everything is coming down in 2012 anyway, right? In that case if you are still interested in reading my mail-log please send me your physical mailing address or a fax number so that you can still receive my updates which I’ll be handwriting and making sure I dot my i’s with hearts and use fancy cursive for italics, block letters for bold, and my links will instead be appendixes which will be printed off from other “mail-logs”.
Also, I’m going to stop doing any sort of math, since my head will fill “with numbers and that can’t be good for you”.
On a good note… feel free to talk all you want about Prince online, since I doubt he’s got a Google Alert setup.
Some other reading for you:
Mitch Kapor (@mkapor): “Prince says Internet is over. Internet says Prince is over. You choose.”
John Newton (@johnnewton): “The Network formerly known as the Internet…”
Perfect Porridge: Prince: The internet is completely over
Mashable: Prince: “The Internet Is Overâ€
Huffington Post: Prince: The ‘Internet Is Completely Over’
Popeater: Prince Hates iTunes, Says ‘Internet Is Completely Over’