What's up peoples. I'm trying to see if anyone has a copy of TGE that they could copy for me, and I'd be more than willing to pay. I bought this CD upon it's release, but had to replace it in 2000 because I'd loaned it to a cousin who scratched it all up. By chance, I ran across a copy on a trip to FLorida. Anyways, last year on Jan 12th, my car was broken into at a movie theater, and they stole my radio and over 200 of my cd's that were in the car. I'm not tryin'a rob Prince 'cuz like I said, I've bought the CD twice, but now I can't find it anywhere (wonder why) If anyone could help. PLEASE let me know!

Thanks,
Veli

You're not kidding. For some reason, this CD is now very hard to find in the record stores in my area as well.

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Its Out Of production now. My copy is scratched up real bad, and finding it even on eBay is difficult.
Damm those Warner Bros.

They had about 20 copies at Wal-Mart last year in the discount bin. $5 each. I grabbed 4.

It's now deleted, which is why you can't buy it in stores anymore. But it's not too difficult to get hold of on eBay or GEMM or other second hand outlets.

I have it on tape I think... Loads of my tapes have gone missing over the years... dammit...

Damn..Im always reading about the lack of availability of TGE.I know they stopped printing this etc but in my area its readily available new and used in most record stores for the most part.

Why the heck is just that album out of production?? Is there any other prince CD;s that also is out of production too?! shitty.. such a good album that was (and not too old eather.)

/Shun

Ive got this album, excellent condition. the only thing is, I'm in Scotland, so if you don't get any offers nearer home, let me know and I'll pop it in the post.
[This message was edited Sun Jan 5 15:25:28 PST 2003 by jqmunro]

shunchan said:

Prince owns the masters to this album as well as everything released after, it's up to him.

classic77 said:

Prince does not own the masters to TGE. Warner does. The album has an NPG logo on it, but if u read the small print, WB owns it.

WB probably won't reissue it.

c it on eBay all the time & it is e-z 2 find in stores here in Australia.

try redeye.com or eBay

c it on eBay all the time & it is e-z 2 find in stores here in Australia.

try redeye.com.au or eBay

I gots it! :wOOt:

I know 4 sure 1ce & a while amazon.com is stocked with copies, but they r not stamped cheaply! So u might want 2 conduct a search on their engine 4 any possible matches & perhaps u might find that some independent sellers can help ya

Actually 2 rid u of some confusion check this link:
http://s1.amazon.com/exec...81-7263030

TGE has the perfect name, it truly is gold (in the musical sense anyway) IMO theres 2 much passion on that LP 4 any1 2 b without it. So damn i hope u can get ur hands on a copy soon & without trouble FunkyItB



... oops ... did i do that?? :p
[This message was edited Sun Jan 5 20:40:46 PST 2003 by harmony]

daPrettyman said:

Didn't Prince bitch and moan about making sure TGE would only be released if he retained it's masters?

Oh nooo!

You mean I can't replace my crappy tape with the CD??

u know, eye havent heard P. Control in a long time.. but this new years eve, someone at the party seemed to pull it out, and it really sounded fresh...


gonna have 2 pull it out soon and listen once again:)
[This message was edited Sun Jan 5 22:45:19 PST 2003 by Sdldawn]

scimmia said:

That's what I thought as well.I remember reading this information somewhere.

daPrettyman said:

I always assumed that Prince owned the masters to 'TGE' and everything that came after it.Remember when he refused to hand this album over to WB *unless* they agreed to give him ownership of the masters? That's why the album came out over a year late.

Regardless,I can't see why the CD would be so hard to find.It's one of his best albums in recent years.

Snagged it off eBay last year for about 10 bucks! Brand new spanking condition, too

BTW why are the margins on this thread so huge?

DavidEye said:

The CD was released by Warner's, but Prince did manage to get a deal to keep the master tape of it. The deal was part of the reason that the album took over an entire year to be released after it was completed.

Warner's simply does not have a master tape to strike new copies, so they cannot keep it in print. If Prince ever gets another distribution deal with a major, then it might be re-released. My reccomendation is that you scour the discount bins, as they occassionally surface there.

Try Half.Com. I see it on there all the time and the price is never that high.

I've ordered from these guys before and it's listed there for $14.00. Not bad.

http://www.musicexp.com/p...ullcds.htm