Someone gives you the choice between accepting $20K or a CD with 5 Purple Rain-era songs from the vault. The songs are described as "better than anything on the album and the B-sides and were never released because they were too personal to P."

The catch is you can never copy the tracks or ever distribute them.

Just a fun little hypothetical.

What a slightly bizarre question.

To turn down 20,000 I would require a lot more than 5 songs on a cd.

Also, to not be able to share them with (at least) people who have shared their material with me would be impossible I think.

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I'd take the 20k.

I wouldn't trust P with the goods. It would probably be 5 instrumentals.

... ain't no way I'm turning down $20K free and clear, sorry Prince can keep them Purple Rain Era songs

You didn't say you couldn't invite people to your house and play them, and charge them for the privilege.

So I'd take the songs, charge $20 a ticket, and invite the whole damn .org

That way you'd have the songs and you'd make money, and you wouldn't have lost any money because you didn't pay your own money for the songs in the first place.... you only turned down money. LOL

Militant said:

Who's paying me the money?

Prince?

I wouldn't hold my breath for it..........

muirdo said:

Who's paying me the money?

Prince?

I wouldn't hold my breath for it..........

Ouch! So true.

Ain't nobody takin' the tunes?

I'd lord over my 5 rings like a purple Gollum.

"Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine."

the $20,000

definitely

or a blowjob

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JoeTyler said:

or a blowjob

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From Prince?

$20,000 any day, they probably would be re recorded versions like IALRWNL.

Spinlight said:

JoeTyler said:

or a blowjob

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From Prince?

is that worth $20,000 ???

I'd take the money and get the songs via....other means.

JoeTyler said:

Spinlight said:

From Prince?

is that worth $20,000 ???

ugh..

Militant said:

You didn't say you couldn't invite people to your house and play them, and charge them for the privilege.

So I'd take the songs, charge $20 a ticket, and invite the whole damn .org

That way you'd have the songs and you'd make money, and you wouldn't have lost any money because you didn't pay your own money for the songs in the first place.... you only turned down money. LOL

I whipe my ass with $20,000

20K and pay only 1K for someone to actually get those never heard songs for my collection.....if I had one

What can 5 songs from the PR era do for me?

20,000 >_> what?! I'm a college student.. rather pay tuition

I'd take the money and try to purchase with it far more than 5 uncirculating tracks.

vitriol said:

I'd take the money and try to purchase with it far more than 5 uncirculating tracks.

How would you go about doing that? Maybe drop by Pepe Willies and see what he has hidden in the basement?

This is a hard questions... I'd probably take the money and use it to go to LA for the 21night stand. Or see if I can then give it back to Prince for a private show to play an all ballads show for me. If P thought they were too private before I'd feel kinda wrong for listening to them now.

$20,000 without a doubt. I'm a broke college student whose got some loans to pay back!!!

The money.

Then I could buy the boots.

The never before heard Purple Rain era songs.

I'd give $5,000 for the complete Computer Blue in stereo and the long version of 17 Days though.

How you would answer this question could depend as much on how wealthy you are as it does on how much you value unreleased Prince music. A more interesting question might be whether you would choose the 5 never-before-heard Purple Rain-era songs over the opportunity to have Prince come over to your house and play 5 selections from 20Ten to you and your friends.