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Straw Poll Suggests Few Have Bought Kanye West’s $200 Stem Player with New Album Included

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We took a poll the other day.

The question, on Twitter, was Have you bought Kanye West’s Stem Player with his new album, “Donda 2”? The album is only available on the player.

The answers could be Yes or No.

Of the 68 people who responded, 92.9% answered No. Yes answers were 7.4%.

I think that answers our question in this very informal test. “Donda 2,” if it’s been heard, hasn’t come from the Stem Player.

Kano Computing of London, owned by Alex Klein and his dad, Saul Klein, must have a lot of those little blinking beige objects that resemble Bayer aspirins sitting in a warehouse. Blimey!

“Donda 2” is going to have to be released properly if Kanye ever wants his fans to hear it. Or maybe one day it will be part of a box set costing hundreds of dollars as a collectible.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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