Say Prince was auctioning off a USB which held every vaulted song from the 70s and 80s only in the highest possible quality. There was only one USB what is the most you see yourself realistically paying to win?

USB?

Hmm I'm not sure, I need to have the music on "albums"... Cd's and Lp vinyls.. with artwork liner notes etc....

I would pay the usual price for every Cd & Vinyl Lp....

20,0001 Tanzanian shillings

TheGoldStandard said:

umfufu1 said:

I would pay the usual fee

But would Cindy?

I'm not sure there is a sizable USB on the market that could harbour every vaulted song from the 70s and 80s only in the highest possible quality.

Frankly, I wouldn't pay anything. It's Prince. The stuff eventually leakes any way.

I collect a lot of stuff from Michael Jackson, George Michael, James Brown, Janet Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder that would make any fan of music jizz. Reason? I know they wont leak.

bluegangsta said:

I'm not sure there is a sizable USB on the market that could harbour every vaulted song from the 70s and 80s only in the highest possible quality.

Frankly, I wouldn't pay anything. It's Prince. The stuff eventually leakes any way.

I collect a lot of stuff from Michael Jackson, George Michael, James Brown, Janet Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder that would make any fan of music jizz. Reason? I know they wont leak.

Why wouldn't stuff from MJ and GM eventually leak so far stuff has although somewhat slow but that is only because they dont have an abundance of unreleased items.

(also what specifically in your opinion is not going to leak GM related)

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bluegangsta said:

Dilan said:

bluegangsta said:

I'm not sure there is a sizable USB on the market that could harbour every vaulted song from the 70s and 80s only in the highest possible quality.

Frankly, I wouldn't pay anything. It's Prince. The stuff eventually leakes any way.

I collect a lot of stuff from Michael Jackson, George Michael, James Brown, Janet Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder that would make any fan of music jizz. Reason? I know they wont leak.

Why wouldn't stuff from MJ and GM eventually leak so far stuff has although somewhat slow but that is only because they dont have an abundance of unreleased items.

(also what specifically in your opinion is not going to leak GM related)

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Because I have sources that fans don't?

Also, there is a shit-ton of Michael Jackson stuff out there in the hands of collectors. It just doesn't leak, because fans are so protective and/ or selfish. Nowhere near the rate of Prince stuff.

And in regards to George Michael - Andros has been selling stuff the fans since the late 90's and some of it still hasn't seend the light of day. It's just part of the multitude of reason George hates him. The only reason an hour or so of the Trojan Souls sessions leak is because of yours truely. That, and there are A LOT of fakers in the GM communities.

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What about 12 CDs for a dollar?

bluegangsta said:

Dilan said:

Why wouldn't stuff from MJ and GM eventually leak so far stuff has although somewhat slow but that is only because they dont have an abundance of unreleased items.

(also what specifically in your opinion is not going to leak GM related)

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Because I have sources that fans don't?

Also, there is a shit-ton of Michael Jackson stuff out there in the hands of collectors. It just doesn't leak, because fans are so protective and/ or selfish. Nowhere near the rate of Prince stuff.

And in regards to George Michael - Andros has been selling stuff the fans since the late 90's and some of it still hasn't seend the light of day. It's just part of the multitude of reason George hates him. The only reason an hour or so of the Trojan Souls sessions leak is because of yours truely. That, and there are A LOT of fakers in the GM communities.

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1. What makes you think that the latest USB flash drive isn´t big enough to store the whole vault? I mean, some have 512 GB or one TB now. If we´re talking about unreleased songs/outtakes, then they´d easily fit on one of those, unless we count the live shows and rehearsals as well.

2. I wasn´t aware of unreleased George Michael music. Who is Andros? A former associate?

I´d pay a dollar per song. But only if I get to choose the songs.

bluegangsta said:

Dilan said:

Why wouldn't stuff from MJ and GM eventually leak so far stuff has although somewhat slow but that is only because they dont have an abundance of unreleased items.

(also what specifically in your opinion is not going to leak GM related)

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Because I have sources that fans don't?

Also, there is a shit-ton of Michael Jackson stuff out there in the hands of collectors. It just doesn't leak, because fans are so protective and/ or selfish. Nowhere near the rate of Prince stuff.

And in regards to George Michael - Andros has been selling stuff the fans since the late 90's and some of it still hasn't seend the light of day. It's just part of the multitude of reason George hates him. The only reason an hour or so of the Trojan Souls sessions leak is because of yours truely. That, and there are A LOT of fakers in the GM communities.

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Are you sure there is a shit-ton of MJ stuff in comparison to Prince? (the comparison is important more exists more likely to leak) the first thing that comes to mind is concerts being 90% of the shitload because he doesnt have many studio songs in collectors his hands.. or do they?

But most of Andros' stuff has come out? We have got so, so much these last two years. What are examples of this stuff? Stephen, Last Xmas Demo, People.. I mean really theres not much

Militant said:

umfufu1 said:

I would pay the usual fee

But would Cindy?

What's the matter, don't you like me?

I once tried to sell my worries but no one would buy them.

Anyway, to answer your question, it would depend on the song list. For instance, if it's made up of stuff I already have, then maybe not so much - $50?

If it contains a lot of songs I've never heard, then maybe $100?

KingSausage said:

I would trade my copy of 1999: The New Master.

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I would give KingSausage my password for my lifetime NPGMC membership so he could use it as additional collateral to barter a deal.

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I don't know how/why it has to be a USB drive. Here's a novel idea - and if anyone in Prince's camp is reading this, I hereby grant you permission to use this idea, because clearly no one there has ever thought of it - set up a website and offer FLAC downloads. Pay per download, with discounts for 10 songs, 50 songs, 100 songs, however many there are.

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$1 per song is Prince's going rate on current material. Let's double his take for songs he didn't feel should be heard, didn't fit an album, were too personal. Quadruple it for songs that have swearing - I'll pay a premium to put an end to the backmasking or horrible editing.

2 of my 3 kids.

Those 2 girls are little bitches anyway.

My son is the only one who will amount to anything.

J/K I don't have any kids!

$1-2.00 per song.. maybe?

Dilan said:

Say Prince was auctioning off a USB which held every vaulted song from the 70s and 80s only in the highest possible quality. There was only one USB what is the most you see yourself realistically paying to win?

If I was a millionaire I'd pay whatever he asks.

But realistically? I could simply never afford it, I'm pretty penniless at the moment and even on normal times I hardly ever have more than a few thousand bucks on my bank account (that I'd gladly give for your hard drive, though, but some'd beat me to it).

Another thing: I don't want every vault song from the 70's and 80's. I want every vault song from the 70's to NOW. I don't fancy the 80's stuff more than what followed.

Doozer said:

I'll pay a premium to put an end to the backmasking or horrible editing.

This.

databank said:

Another thing: I don't want every vault song from the 70's and 80's. I want every vault song from the 70's to NOW. I don't fancy the 80's stuff more than what followed.

And This.

djThunderfunk said:

NorthC said:

djThunderfunk said:

And This.

Really? Imagine Prince put a twelve hour rehearsal in the vault. Would you really want to spend twelve hours listening to it?

You don't have to listen to it all at once. And you can skip

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Realistically, 0 dollars.

I wouldn't spend money but I'd spend hours of my time trying to locate those files if they were uploaded on the net

NorthC said:

djThunderfunk said:

And This.

Really? Imagine Prince put a twelve hour rehearsal in the vault. Would you really want to spend twelve hours listening to it?

databank specified every song, not every performance or rehearsal...

but, to answer your question, depends on the recording, if it held my interest for 12 hours, sure. If it was repetitive or for some other reason uninteresting, no.

NorthC said:

djThunderfunk said:

And This.

Really? Imagine Prince put a twelve hour rehearsal in the vault. Would you really want to spend twelve hours listening to it?

Some of my all time favorite bootlegs are rehearsals. I prefer some good rehearsals over unreleased songs.

That birthday rehearsal in 1984, or the 1983-85 rehearsals before Paisley Park was opened. Those are some of my favorite Prince recordings regardless of the sound quality. Now imagine them in pristine quality. That woudl be really cool. Those Eden Praire warehouse rehearsals, you know, like that Neon Rendezvous bootleg or those black and white rehearsal videos. I´d gladly pay for those. Sometimes I listen to the Noon Rendezvous rehearsal for hours.