I just wanted to take a hot minute and add my voice to the mass of discontented NPGMC members. Like many, I will not be renewing my membership next year - the product just didn't add up to either the NPGMC promises or my expectations. I mean, what did we get really? For an entire year Prince just perched himself up in Paisley Park playing basketball in his high-heeled jordans and tending his vegetable garden. It would have been something if we could have received some new material or even got a concert tour . . . but no, he just released four subpar disks from the vault, discs for which he charged us $25 dollars a piece. Hell, I should have just saved my money and downloaded each of the disks off of alt.binaries.multimedia.prince - afterall, all four of them were posted before all the members received their shipments from customer service specialist at Gage marketing.

I mean really, I am wrong for this . . . geez, just look at the quality of this "exclusive" material:

Disc One - the best of symbollina. What the f . . 12 tracks of the worst stuff since NPS. Some of the tracks could have been worth it if his punk religious behind hadn't gone back and digitally removed all the cursing. "what the duck!!!" I'm sick of this shit Prince. But nooo . . the redubbing didn't stop there . . we all know damn well that "Mani's shower" was really recorded as "Mayte's shower." There is no was in hell that we should all let him get over on us like this - release the unedited Vault you sorry mother ducker!!!

Disc Two - the dumbass december. Awww, Lawwwddd. How sorrry was this duckin' disk. Hello Prince, Jesus Christ is not a flower bloomin from the snow, and even if he was, no one wants to hear you sing about it . .. what a waste of the falsetto. And the remake of When doves cry . .. . . what the hell . . I'm sorry, the doves are not the saved looking back at all the damned, weeping because they couldn't save us all . .. . AHHH. And I thought Mayte stiffled him creatively . . . MANI MUST GO or I tell you what . . . THIS IS THE LAST DECEMBER I EVER GIVE PRINCE ANY MONEY . . . .

Disc Three - One Nite Alone Piano. errr, good lord, what was Prince doing with this one . . his ballads used to be sooo damn tight, especially at the piano. But nooo, he had to ruin this disc with his ducking psycho babble . . . I mean, what the hell does he expect from us . . .. hello, all the NPGMC members didn't major in history Prince . .. so do us all a favor and just let us wallow in our white bread ignorance. Abraham Lincoln was a racist . . . the next thing you know he'll be expected us to think that Thomas Jefferson slept with slaves, or believed in Aliens.

Disc Four - crabophobia. you dumb mother ducker . . stop with the contrived political shit . . . . . no one wants to hear your opinion of the world. and what's up with track three . . Afghans are more that rugs . . . lawwwd, that should have stayed locked in the vault . . . way in the vault.

LAST WORDS - WHAT WOULD HAVE SAVED MY MEMBERSHIP
ok, Prince . . I understand that you have a new wife and all, and that you wanted to spend the year traveling with her and what not . . . but would it have been to much to ask to get a Mother Ducking World Tour. I mean hell, when I signed up with for this year I was promised concert oportunities . . and that was not delivered. And I don't want to hear it from any of you duckers who made it to that one show in New York or that show in LA . . . those were not concert opportunites!!! My god, how hard would a tour have been . . . hell, just the states . . who cares about all those foreign members who haven't seen you for like forever.

Shit, I know I live in the po-dunk south but hell . . . if you had come anywhere in florida I would have hit you up style with some concert money. Hell, I would have got off my sorry ass and drove to Atlanta or New Orleans . .. Duck, I would have even flown to Vegas to see your ass . . but NOOO, you couldn't do shit . . . Damn, those concerts would have been kicking . . especially if they were off the chain like the two shows you did do . . letting folks in for a sound check . . that would have been worth the membership alone . . errr you damn ducker . .

And dang . . On top of that. . you could have recorded the shows and sent us some cd's from the tour instead of that shit that we got . . . ohhh, that would have kicked ass. No more paying the bootlegger 30 bucks for one disc of crowd noise. That would have been tight . . . CONCERT OPPORTUNITIES(maybe even a special npgmc section), SOUNDCHECKS, AFTERSHOWS, MAYBE A CELEBRATION AND LIVE JAMS . . . all for the cost of my membership . . god, that would have been more than worth it. Hell . . you could have even released the live set to retail . . .show the world that your still jamming . . .

But alas . . . all I got was four stinkin' cds- Prince, consider yourself kicked to the curb.

...and you too.

He came back to Dublin - I was at the soundcheck - I have my 4CDs - Dont care about the rest of ye...
For me it was worth it - and I am rejoining

We ALL have a right to CHOOSE what we do and don't do in AMERICA.PRINCE did not hold a gun to our heads while we were sitting next to our computers forcing us to give the NPGMC our $100. We have all these so called playas' in this scociety that can't even spend a measly $100 on one of the best prefomers in the world. Prince isn't the only artist in the world that I wold spend that kind of money on but he is one of the few. I do admit he is kind of expensive and this year was kind of a pain dealing with customer service reps. but big deal. I'm not going to loose any sleep over it. So all you ballers stop whining over what you didn't get. If you don't like it don't do it agian. Go back to you sorry $20 boot leggers, but as a musician myself i feal that disrespectful to an artist. I'm sure that almost everybody on this website owns a few bootlegs but "i don't" I wont can't say that i don't want any I just dont have access to any, and I am satisfied with the music and concerts Prince and other musicins have provided over the years.-Peace out-dont hate!

cainaan said:

here we go again. when you get a moment between packing the remaining members cds, read through the org.

Look at the screenames posting these messages. Some of them were created on the same day. They have like 5-20 posts over the course of several months. Hmmm...

Tom said:

oooh Tom, only 5-20 messages... pooh pooh