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Why You Can’t Listen to Prince’s Music After His Death

A MOMENT OF SILENCE

His career-long battle against record label tyranny and championing of artists’ right to be paid is exactly why you can’t find his music online to listen to today.

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When a music icon dies, we grieve with headphones on.

The first stop: Twitter, where we publicly unload our hashtag #sadness. The next stop is more private, more intimate: the playlists in which we revisit their music, mourn to their hits, and groove to their legacy.

It’s perhaps Prince’s greatest legacy...

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