Hi,
Does anyone know if there is any way of getting the music that was released onto the npgmusicclub. I was a member and downloaded everything but have lost it all over the years - is there any-where I can go to get it back?

Thanks.

jonnyf said:

I might be wrong, but my impression is that discussion of obtaining internet released Prince material may constitute a rule violation of the Prince.org forum rules. I too was shit out of luck regarding NPG Music Club materials; Google is our friend in many ways for issues such is what you're dealing with.

Ugh, it's not that exciting. Go get a copy of The Gold Experience.

kmc said:

You are correct

It's a legitimate question as these were officially released songs that are now unavailable. Unfortunately, there is no legal way of obtaining most of the tracks except for authorized items pressed to disc such as those Hit And Run CD singles and The Rainbow Children.

squirrelgrease said:

Check ebay

luv4u said:

Those Hit And Run discs are pretty damn expensive. I wish I could have bought those back in the day, but we didn't get a H&R show here. Rainbow Children can be had for under $10 at Best Buy still(NOS) as it was on their now-defunct Red Line label.

Aside from 8 songs (the Hit N Run singles), nothing from the NPGMC has been officially released on CD. Anything you buy would be a CD-R copy.

2045: Radical Man was also released on the Bamboozled soundtrack, which should be very easy to find, as well as Horny Pony.

My NPGMC music from the first incarnation still plays fine, as they are all MP3s. It's the Musicology-era music that won't play, which is sad because most of those versions are either slightly different and/or extended.

^^^

True, The Rainbow Children was also released on CD. I forget to include that in the NPGMC stuff, but it did take the place of the October Ahdio show.

many sites 'claim' to be legal.

But if they're selling unauthorised downloads, then believe me, they're doing
it illegally. Since there is no possible way they've sourced the tracks
legitimately.

stichdoll said:

I think - It's because the original download of Copenhagen contained a brief segment of another artist's music (I forget what the tune was)... NPGMC realised their mistake and swiftly replaced it with an edited version to avoid any copyright wrangles.

pacey68 said:

I seem to remember that Copenhagen hiccup. And Boris is of course, correct about the NPG tracks that appear on some sites.

that's cool to know! will have to have the full-length one when i can find it

stichdoll said:

It's track 10 on disc 2 of the Sabotage bootleg Continental Drift. It's called "Instrumental Groove/Jean Pierre" - 13:34.

andrewm7 said:

or, you know, that webiste he's charging $77 memberships for...

errant said:

Content on a website? Are you f***ing crazy?

I'll be fair and charge anyone the same $100 for all the files that came out year one of the NPGMC, just like Prince did. I have them all.

ernestsewell said:

That's fairer than Prince, he charged us again the year after for the same stuff!

erik319 said:

I never even paid for the first year.

jonnyf said:

Ask around. Lots of people downlaoded that ish to cd or know someone who did. Even audhio shows.



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[Edited 3/19/10 8:35am]

On a whim, I checked my NPGMC downloads yesterday and none of them would play. I thought that somehow the DRM licenses went to the grave. It really wasn't a big deal since all are backed up multiple times to CD with the DRM bypassed, but I was still kind of pissed.

Seems all I had to do to get them to play was upgrade to the latest Windows Media Player. Just an FYI if anyone is having the same issue.

Mine still play fine, but i still have all the DRM's in the license backup folder. I assume that's where it looks for the license.

squirrelgrease said:

Year 1 didn't have DRM. Beyond that, yes.

bigd74 said:

I guess there was some recent Windows XP update that separated the DRMs from the older WMP or some voodoo shit like that.

I blame Larry.

ernestsewell said:

Yeah, these were Xpectation, Chocolate Invasion, Slaughterhouse, C-Note and the WMA singles like Magnificent, etc.

I don't even UNDERSTAND how it is possible, in 2010, that some people don't know how to find music (out of print or not) using the internet.

databank said:

I know. Shocking really. Everything I buy, I've listened to on Spotify to see if I like it. And anything out of print is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

Rerelease Jill Jones Vanity 6 & the Family and I'll buy the buggers!

squirrelgrease said:

But if you think about it - Chocolate Invasion and Slaughterhouse were just songs from year one, recompiled. So if someone has year one stuff, they have those two albums, no? I wasn't aware of the C-Note thing. I just can't care about it, although I have it, to know when it was released.

I do have all those other files in MP3 though, that were originally WMA DRM