The complaints had a spiritual and a political dimension, but Prince's gripe was primarily economic: what galled him above all else was the fact that record labels traditionally retain the rights to an artist's master recordings.
The interior is, somewhat literally, a gallery; the white walls are sectioned into discrete areas, all featuring the goods of different designers you've never heard of, displayed on racks protruding from the walls next to gallery-type labels traditionally posted next to art installations.
Half of the money would go to record companies, and "Who has abused artists worse than the record labels traditionally?" he asks.
Throughout his career and as a veteran of the recording music industry, Courtney has earned recognition for embracing technology and changing the way labels traditionally promoted artists.
"Used goods" are not labels traditionally used to describe men.
"We all know the role that the record label has traditionally played needs to change," said Ronn Werre, president of EMI's new division.
The label has traditionally referred to meritless defamation suits filed by businesses or government officials against citizens who speak out against them.
This was, however, just a slightly more patriotic version of normal practice: a French wine label was traditionally a work of fiction, and, historically, there can have been few businesses to rival the French wine trade when it came to professional deceit, product laundering, and general passing off.
The right ones (read the label) are traditionally prepared: hand-packed fresh (not frozen) fish canned in good olive oil - or in at least one case, butter.
Although mandatory labelling is traditionally used to help consumers identify foods that may contain allergens or other potentially harmful substances, labels are also used to help consumers who wish to select certain foods on the basis of their mode of production, on environmental (e.g. organic), ethical (e.g. fair trade) or religious (e.g. kosher) grounds.
49 While the inclusion of text in graphic warning labels has traditionally been justified in terms of added information content (text adds information otherwise not present), it may also be important to examine possible emotional 'blunting' effects that its inclusion may have.
