I don't get it. Why did he say the pricing is wrong? People are getting 6 songs for $3.99, and one of those songs is over 21 minutes long. A pretty good deal. Is he ranting that the price should be higher? Greedy bastige.

Barnacles!: I don't get it. Why did he say the pricing is wrong? People are getting 6 songs for $3.99, and one of those songs is over 21 minutes long. A pretty good deal. Is he ranting that the price should be higher? Greedy bastige.

I got the sense he meant to sell it for less.

Also, I believe all of the (Mix 13) songs are for charity, either way, so it's not greed.

Barnacles!: I don't get it. Why did he say the pricing is wrong? People are getting 6 songs for $3.99, and one of those songs is over 21 minutes long. A pretty good deal. Is he ranting that the price should be higher? Greedy bastige.

where does it say 6 songs for $3.99? I saw "£7.99 for the EP" and to me that is a lot
/unless it's for charity
//maybe he means more people will buy it if the price is lower?

NYRBill: where does it say 6 songs for $3.99?

the article doesn't say that. I went to itunes and saw it for myself.


/internet super-sleuth

Read what is going on here. (new window)

Hopefully the situation will be rectified so that the record company will accept packages of biscuits, small soapstone carvings of hippos, and pieces of burnt toast that bear the image of Mussolini in lieu of actual money.

All profits go to charity.

Going by what Weird Al once wrote, Apple takes 35% off the top.

So presumably, Smith is pissed that Apple will be profiting so much (in total; obviously percentage-wise nothing would change) and he wanted it to be about encouraging more fans to buy it with a low price as an enticing factor, not a jacked-up price.

I always hated Robert Smith, but he's got a right to complain here.

Also there's nothing about $3.99 anywhere, I don't know where you got that, but I know the singles released on the 13th of every month were $1.99 on Amazon for the US markets.

Robert Poopsmith: Read what is going on here. (new window)

holy crap! He writes like an inter-n00b!

don't worry Robert, not only will I not buy it, I won't listen to it either. In fact, me thinks I'll just ignore it altogether.

I blame Barbara Streisand.

I love this comment from TFA:

"While I am a fan of miserablists with ozone-depleting grooming habits, I have to side with the other commenters. You can fark right off with your Fall Out Boy remixes."

THIS

Kids today with their Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco emo crap. Back in my day, the whiny, pasty-faced, mascara wearing sensitive outsider frontmen knew how to do it right.

My lawn, off of it.

zappawizard: don't worry Robert, not only will I not buy it, I won't listen to it either. In fact, me thinks I'll just ignore it altogether.

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

He's getting too old to wear make up. He looks like my grandma on Easter morning.

subby fail. RS for teh win.

"While I am a fan of miserablists with ozone-depleting grooming habits, I have to side with the other commenters. You can fark right off with your Fall Out Boy remixes."


Yep, THIS. This indeed.

C'mon subby! Picking on Robert Smith is like picking on the retarded kid that lives down your street. You can use all your A material, but there really is no satisfaction in it. Or kind of like banging the neighbourhood slut behind the local grocery store, you don't have to work too hard to do it and then you wonder why you're doing it in the first place.

You dig man?

Besides the guy writes great songs.

NYRBill: where does it say 6 songs for $3.99? I saw "£7.99 for the EP" and to me that is a lot

The EP is being sold in the US for $3.99 and in the UK for £7.99.

MikeXpop: The EP is being sold in the US for $3.99 and in the UK for £7.99.

ok, why is it nearly 4x the price?

NYRBill: MikeXpop: The EP is being sold in the US for $3.99 and in the UK for £7.99.

ok, why is it nearly 4x the price?
Serously?
That's what the whole point of the farking article was, that the price is wrong.

And yes, I meant "In a way regarding serous?"

"Disintegration" is the best album ever!

Oiisu: Seriously?
That's what the whole point of the farking article was, that the price is wrong.

I must have missed the part where he compares the prices on either side of the pond

Why doesn't Metallica have this kind of anger over the production abortion that took place on Death Magnetic. BRICKWALL LIMITING RUINED IT. WRITING THIS IN ALL CAPS CAUSE ITS LOUDER AND I HEARD THAT LOUDER IS BETTER AND THE CUSTOMER WANTS THEIR MUSIC LOUD AND DISTORTED AND RUINED.

Great. First he lets "korn" (what a dumb name) work on his album, and now this crap? Maybe they really should have stopped long ago..
sigh.

zappawizard: don't worry Robert, not only will I not buy it, I won't listen to it either. In fact, me thinks I'll just ignore it altogether.

This

Robert Poopsmith: Read what is going on here. (new window)

Hopefully the situation will be rectified so that the record company will accept packages of biscuits, small soapstone carvings of hippos, and pieces of burnt toast that bear the image of Mussolini in lieu of actual money.

Stupid NME glosses of the biggest problem with this fiasco.
The major issue Mr. Smith has with all this, besides the album being £7.99 ($14.25 US) on iTunes UK, there's also the problem of the last track, 'Exploding Head Syndrome', the 21-minute megamix by 65daysofstatic, is not available for individual download like the other tracks. Most fans seem to agree that this is by far the best track on the EP. As well, 65's alternate remix of 'The Only One', is *not* included, as it was supposed to have been.

Glitchwerks: "Disintegration" is the best album ever!

Nah, Pr0nography is.

Still no Cure for depression. However, in other news, there is depression for The Cure.

'Exploding Head Syndrome' mix available free from Pitchfork.
More remixes here.

skippytheferret: C'mon subby! Picking on Robert Smith is like picking on the retarded kid that lives down your street. You can use all your A material, but there really is no satisfaction in it. Or kind of like banging the neighbourhood slut behind the local grocery store, you don't have to work too hard to do it and then you wonder why you're doing it in the first place.

You dig man?

Well what do you want me to do instead? Bang the retarded kid behind the grocery store?

Kar98: Well what do you want me to do instead? Bang the retarded kid behind the grocery store?

Now there's a website waiting to happen! And all you'd have to do is rattle your car keys and the kid would be all in and mesmerised.

Glitchwerks: "Disintegration" is the best album ever!

viccellini: Nah, Pr0nography is.

Damn straight, and they know it. That's why they have been including "A Hundred Years" in all of their live shows since that godawful album "Wild Mood Swings".

Of course, I listen to "The Top" more than any other Cure album. I never liked "Disintegration", but I love "Wish" (sans 'Friday I'm in Love' and 'High'). Go figure

DeepDownHounds: Glitchwerks: "Disintegration" is the best album ever!

viccellini: Nah, Pr0nography is.

Damn straight, and they know it. That's why they have been including "A Hundred Years" in all of their live shows since that godawful album "Wild Mood Swings".

Of course, I listen to "The Top" more than any other Cure album. I never liked "Disintegration", but I love "Wish" (sans 'Friday I'm in Love' and 'High'). Go figure

Well that's two people who didn't get the pop culture reference.

Bloodflowers is horribly underrated.

Gonz037: Bloodflowers is horribly underrated.

I think Bloodflowers is horribly dull.

viccellini: Gonz037: Bloodflowers is horribly underrated.

I think Bloodflowers is horribly dull.

I don't care.

"I farking despair." He added.


LMFAO I love it!

Gonz037: Bloodflowers is horribly underrated.

This.

disintegration A+
bloodflowers, wish A
kiss me, head on the door B+
japanese whispers C+
3IB C
wild mood, the top, pornography, faith, self-titled C-

but pornography from the trilogy DVD = B

facisto: DeepDownHounds: Glitchwerks: "Disintegration" is the best album ever!

viccellini: Nah, Pr0nography is.

Damn straight, and they know it. That's why they have been including "A Hundred Years" in all of their live shows since that godawful album "Wild Mood Swings".

Of course, I listen to "The Top" more than any other Cure album. I never liked "Disintegration", but I love "Wish" (sans 'Friday I'm in Love' and 'High'). Go figure

Well that's two people who didn't get the pop culture reference.

I got it. Although I thought it was "Disintegration was your greatest album". Too lazy to look it up, anyway.

/Head on the Door guy myself, but Disintegration is just a notch behind.