purplepolitician said:

Wasn't around for NPGMC. didn't the songs expire or some shit?

Yes. Now the only way for anyone who wasn't a member to hear them is illegally downloading them or buying a bootleg - way to go Prince!

Expect cock-eyedg1rlz.com to go belly up sooner or later too.

Yes

I would of course have to budget myself, so therefore prioritise which songs I'd drop, so in theory I'd hope to get everything, but wishing to also enjoy then I'd allow about $10 a week and listen to them for that week before looking for the next set.

Lossless? Yes. And I would even buy tracks that I already found "somewhere else". Official lossless versions - all day long.

luv4u said:

Be thankful for what we are receiving.

Who knows how long this purple high will last.

a lifetime.

cock-eyedg1rlz.com

black and ugly as ever, however...

spitty said:

of course! i just bought 3 of them!

LOL Excellent point!

I would prefer to have an "album" or collection of something Prince feels is the best representation of where he is at a given moment.

I'm not a huge bootlegger because I tend to think there is a reason those songs have not been released. Over the course of my lifetime, I suppose, yes, I would like to see it all get released as we've seen with, say, Beatles, Nirvana, etc....or Miles Davis, Bach, Beethoven, if you prefer!

But Prince is still making music and I am more interested in that than mediocre old songs.

funkaholic1972 said:

spitty said:

of course! i just bought 3 of them!

i copy that

I'd likely not buy every track, but I still happen upon the occasional gem ripped from "the vault." 88 cents seems do-able.

And altogether inaudable quality notwithstanding, I really don't mind the imperfection of demos, rehearsals, etc. I'm far more interested in compositions -- or even intriguing, incomplete portions of them -- than polished production.

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Yes I would buy vault tracks at 0.88 cents. I have heard a lot of the vault stuff. Some are better than others but most I would consider works in progress. If any of them were going to be on an album I am sure Prince would have put his "quality control" focus on them and they would have been tweaked and perfected before their official release.

That said I would like to see Prince release vault stuff and also any vault stuff he wants to revamp for 2013. It seems his latest band and associates like his back catalog enough that they have inspired him to bring back some classics; i.e. The Dance Electric. Maybe he has some surpises for us and I am thankful for whatever he releases.

RedKite said:

Yes I would buy vault tracks at 0.88 cents. I have heard a lot of the vault stuff. Some are better than others but most I would consider works in progress. If any of them were going to be on an album I am sure Prince would have put his "quality control" focus on them and they would have been tweaked and perfected before their official release.

I highly doubt that. almost all of his albums from the mid to late '90s onwards are bricked when you look at the waveform. can't remember exactly where it started, but this has been going on for a very long time and it's not these 4 mp3s that started it.

Of course.

If he decided to release (again?) 'Empty Room', I'd buy it in a flash.

chopingard said:

Marrk said:

Big difference is they're all A+ tracks, the two i mentioned were D- or worse.

Well In your opinnion they are D- I have to say I love The P & My Tree/Positive Place, But that's the reason he's great almost everything is loved by someone

Think about an outtake collections like Jewel Box excluding released songs 42 tracks of varying quality. It would cost at $0.88 a track $36.96 (£24 GBP) all in perfect quality

There are people who have payed alot more for what is a collection of varying quality from bootleggers so I'd have no problem buying it straight from Prince classics, mediocre and duds alike.

1 - Lisa

2 - Vibrator

3 - A Better Place To Die

4 - U Call Me

5 - Extra Loveable

6 - Purple Music

7 - Possessed

8 - Do Yourself A Favour,

9 - Chocolate,

10 - Electric Intercourse,

11 - The Dance Electric,

12 - All Day All Night,

13 - G Spot,

14 - Manic Monday,

15 - Old Friends 4 Sale,

16 - In All My Dreams,

17 - Baby You're A Trip,

18 - Last Heart,

19 - Expert Lover,

20 - Crystal Ball,

21 - There's Others Here With Us,

22 - Data Bank, Moviestar,

23 - She Want A Place In Heaven,

24 - Girl O My Dreams,

25 - We Can Funk,

26 - Neon Telephone,

27 - Power Fantastic,

28 - Can I Play With U,

29 - Wonderful Ass,

30 - Sexual Suicide,

31 - Eternity,

32 - Crucial,

33 - Rebirth Of The Flesh,

34 - If I Love U 2nite,

35 - Witness,

36 - Cross The Line,

37 - Alphabet Street Blues,

38 - Welcome 2 The Ratrace,

39 - Cookie Jar,

40 - Murph Drag,

41 - Good Man,

42 - Your Love Is So Hard,

43 - The Grand Progression,

44 - Schoolyard,

45 - Glamslam 91,

46 - The Flow

Also ask a selection of fans which ones are the duds and which ones are classics and you could get with the exception of a few universals a vary varied list.

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Number 10 is worth $88 by itself, but yes I would pay 88 cents for those gems, as you could choose which ones you don't want and I am sure they would do a discount if you bought lots of them. Have most of them thanks to the Princes Ivalut series of annual albums.

Listen to these jams a lot, numbers 1 to 36 are superb, missing from the list are Fuschia Light, People with out and The Sex of it.

I'm a completionist/completist (?) so yes, I'd get everything just to have an archive. Now whether or not I'd play it all frequently (if at all), that's a different question that I'd probably answer by saying no.

prince just needs to release a 20 cd set with every out take demo prior to lovesexy .. sell it for 300 and be done with this crap ..

TrevorAyer said:

paisleypark4 said:

TrevorAyer said:

prince just needs to release a 20 cd set with every out take demo prior to lovesexy .. sell it for 300 and be done with this crap ..

Id buy

So would I!

How can someone buy "mediocre" material?

On a "legal", registered site, the music posted to be downloaded can be, but Only HQ quality

Otherwise, mediocre means kind of a Bootleg...

yes. yes i would

ganesh said:

How can someone buy "mediocre" material?

On a "legal", registered site, the music posted to be downloaded can be, but Only HQ quality

Otherwise, mediocre means kind of a Bootleg...

I dunno. Go over to iTunes and listen to a couple of the original versions that Rosie Gaines sells of "Hit U In The Socket" and "I Want U" .... sounds like they come from a cleaned up multi-generation tape.

but as I'm sure you know, the OP is referring to the quality of the songs. not the quality of the recording or conversion.