Is this thing really common or a tough one to find? I am being offered one for a somewhat pretty penny. I know NPG sent them certain radio stations - so that could mean limited pressing?

It was from CD-R, so it's the same as downloading and burning your own copy. Yes it's rare on it's own, but I know I wouldn't pay more than a $1 for it as I have the songs already.

Why Prince doesn't do more limited EPs like this like he promoted during the Love4ONeanother Charity shows, I don't know.

Untill I uploaded it to alt.binaries.multimedia.prince about 9hrs ago it was rather hard to find it in true CD quality (no mp3).

I've seen folks offering it for sale on eBay for a lot of money, but beware, they're all CD-R's. The people offering them for sale should be clear about it being a CD-R and not a regular pressed CD.

Now I've uploaded the tracks in SHN (lossless compression) you shouldn't even bother buying a CD-R copy. Just download the tracks and burn them to disc yourself. You'll have the songs in exactly the same quality as one of those expensive CD-R's.

If you need more information about newsgroups or SHN just use the prince.org search engine for the forums as I've posted links to FAQ's before.

Still, an original copy can be identified by the original cover (but then again, you can photocopy that ofcourse) which looks like it has been torned apart from a bigger paper