First Prince album you bought.....on its release date.

I guess we all remember the first Prince album spent our money on but what was the first album you waited on? The first album you picked up on it's release date, the one you couldn't wait to buy? Mine was Lovesexy in 1988 when i was 14. I bought SOTT about two weeks after it's release but by 1988 i was such a huge fan it was first day purchasing by then. Buying Lovesexy was interesting too, the guy who served me couldn't bear to look at the sleeve(i bought it on cassette and vinyl) and my friends at school would borrow it and turn the cassette inlay inside out so no one could see it! So what was your first first day purchase?
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WildheartXXX said:

well, musicology i guess, though it was put in my hand at the concert simulcast - i didn't go out and buy it.

The Hits / The B-Sides. After seeing him play on the Act II tour, I knew I had a lot of catching up to do. Up until then, I think I only had , D+P and Graffiti Bridge...

Ever since then I've bought them on release date, except for NPS, which wasn't carried by any stores in Colorado Springs, where I was at the time - I ended up ordering it from Amazon, I think. Of course, 'release date' became an amorphous term when he started shipping stuff directly through New Funk / NPGMC - I got Crystal Ball, One Nite Alone and others way after some other people.

ya can't really go out and get his new albums on the release date anymore like you used to be able to do...there's always some kind of download or preview or some other dealie that takes the punch out of going to the wrecka stow on day one and cracking the shrinkwrap for the first time.

lovesexy on vinyl

Anxiety said:

Parade.
I just loved Kiss so much I didn't bother
waiting for the reviews to come in.
Been doing that ever since.

Graffiti Bridge in 1990 and every Prince-album ever since...

I am yet to buy a album on it's release date. Mostlikely, I will never. My time is more importaint then anyone's music. I buy it when I get around to it, often for other reasons such as I am out shopping for that day and I pass by a store that might sell such an object.

Controversy
1999
Purple Rain (during this, I waited for two hours for the cats at Tower Records on Sunset to open those damn boxes!)
ATWIAD
PARADE
Signs
LOVESEXY

blackguitaristz said:

All of Prince's albums .

nurse said:

All of Prince's albums .

calldapplwondery83 said:

blackguitaristz said:

Controversy
1999
Purple Rain (during this, I waited for two hours for the cats at Tower Records on Sunset to open those damn boxes!)
ATWIAD
PARADE
Signs
LOVESEXY

You win!

emesem said:

I'm pretty sure I bought 'Around The World In A Day' on the day of release. I still buy Prince albums that are released in stores the week of release if not the day of. The one exception was the 'One Nite Alone' box set. That one was hard to find and I eventually bought it on ebay a few weeks later.

Musicology.

musicology

Around the World in a Day which had no pre-album single release
though the radio had been playing several songs from it for days

Around the world in a day...and SOTT
Major events in my childhood.

Purple Rain through current albums.

Later

Well, Ive been playing catch up for a long time so the first I bought on day of release was Rave. Felt good! Wish I could have done that with the others!

The first...

PARADE

(in Germany)

nurse said:

All of Prince's albums .

"A united state of mind will never be divided
The real definition of unity is 1
People can slam their door, disagree and fight it
But how U gonna love the Father but not love the Son?
United States of Division"

Anxiety said:

First -
Last - Rave

No longer make it priority to buy a Prince record on day of release, I'll get it when I get it.

emesem said:

nurse said:

All of Prince's albums .

On release date??? Get outta town.

my answer is ATWIAD up through Emancipation. Then I took my time but that was his last proper release.
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from purplerain all the way on down to musicology!!!

Prince "For You" - 1978
It has the original "Burbank" WB label logo. I hear that's worth something now. It's still in fair condition.

Damn, when did I get old!?