Bought apps from B&N but they won't let me download them to my Simple Touch Nook

Barnes & Noble are not very good at listing warnings about minimum requirements. I bought a few apps for my Simple Touch Nook and when I tried to get them - I found out the hard way they were not compatible and that I will need to get newer hardware for them to work.

My Nook is rooted and modded.

Can I download the apps i paid money for from B&N in ANY other way and get those .apk files I bought, or is the absolute only way to get those .apk files to have a newer nook, download them to it, and only then extracting them?
Thank you.