>Not showing up to an all-star gathering of singers/artists for
>a charity single is not even remotely in the same bag as those
>other things....At all...

But what does that have to do with whether or not the song sucked (an objective opinion anyway), whether the funds got misappropriated (which I'm sure Prince presciently was able to foresee at the time) or whether the singers ate caviar (uh... why shouldn't they?)?