Purple Vinyl Surprise

So I'm at a record store today looking for whatever. It's a great little used place here in town, that I've rebuilt my whole Prince 12" collection from. I don't have all the albums on vinyl, but I do have most all the 12". A few promos too.

So today I'm browsing through dollar CDs, and I see "EMANCIPATION" in big orange letters. It was the CD promo with edit and album versions. Okay cool.

I find Klymaxx's Meeting In The Ladies Room LP on vinyl. $1. Nice.

Then I head to the Prince vinyl bin. Dirty Mind. Don't need it. SOTT. Nope. Misc 12". Nope. "Purple Rain" single promo with Album / Edit $6. Okay not bad. I hope it up....PURPLE vinyl. Now I have the album, regular 12", 7" and the "When Doves Cry" 7" all on purple vinyl. But I didn't know a promo for radio stations existed on purple vinyl. Needless to say there was smoke behind the record as I pulled it out of the bin.

So $8 later, I was happy with my 3 purchases. So that's 5 purple vinyl I have now from or OF that album, plus the purple vinyl of 1999 New Master. Sweet.
[Edited 5/18/09 13:01pm]

Nice pick up.

^that's it. The cover on mine is near excellent condition. It really was a nice pick up. I was stoked.

Nice.

ernestsewell said:

ernestsewell said:

Cool!
I don't have that many Prince albums...although I do have "Purple Rain," on Purple vinyl...and a single as well.

PEJ said:

the 1999 new master was purple vinyl? mine wasn't wtf

djdaffy1227 said:

ernestsewell said:

djdaffy1227 said:

YEP. It looks more pink in your pic. For everyone - it's actually a darker purple, mostly transparent (opposed to the opaque Purple Rain disks). I think the PR disks looked more lavendar.

I've never played my 1999 new master, nor have I played the other purple vinyl that I remember. No reason to really.

I just need to find two more colored disks. The 7" of "True Blue" from Madonna that was a blue disk. AND a very rare (if it even exists anymore) 7" red vinyl of some song about E.T. It was a big hit after the movie came out.

djdaffy1227 said:

PEJ said:

the 1999 new master was purple vinyl? mine wasn't wtf

I wanna know where you got the one that wasn't! I need that!!

ernestsewell said:

djdaffy1227 said:

YEP. It looks more pink in your pic. For everyone - it's actually a darker purple, mostly transparent (opposed to the opaque Purple Rain disks). I think the PR disks looked more lavendar.

I've never played my 1999 new master, nor have I played the other purple vinyl that I remember. No reason to really.

I just need to find two more colored disks. The 7" of "True Blue" from Madonna that was a blue disk. AND a very rare (if it even exists anymore) 7" red vinyl of some song about E.T. It was a big hit after the movie came out.

PEJ said:

ernestsewell said:

djdaffy1227 said:

YEP. It looks more pink in your pic. For everyone - it's actually a darker purple, mostly transparent (opposed to the opaque Purple Rain disks). I think the PR disks looked more lavendar.

I've never played my 1999 new master, nor have I played the other purple vinyl that I remember. No reason to really.

I just need to find two more colored disks. The 7" of "True Blue" from Madonna that was a blue disk. AND a very rare (if it even exists anymore) 7" red vinyl of some song about E.T. It was a big hit after the movie came out.

EmeraldSkies said:

This one....



http://www.trademe.co.nz/...463519.htm

ernestsewell said:

EmeraldSkies said:

This one....



http://www.trademe.co.nz/...463519.htm

I should go back to that record shop and look. They have a WALL of 45's. It's where I found my 7" purple vinyls of stuff w/ Prince. Hmmmm. I might have to go on a hunt again.
[Edited 5/17/09 0:25am]

EmeraldSkies said:

Good luck! I had the original E.T. Soundtrack album when I was little,but I did'nt know that I was released in Red Vinyl.

ernestsewell said:

EmeraldSkies said:

Good luck! I had the original E.T. Soundtrack album when I was little,but I did'nt know that I was released in Red Vinyl.

It wasn't the soundtrack. It was some dude (possibly a duo) that put out a song about E.T. It was a country song, or a rockabilly type song I think. Kind of funny, but not too "Weird Al"-ish. I remember it was the same song on both sides of the record. I don't know if he/they ever did a whole album, but I suspect it was a one-off single. I remember buying it at Target.

Edit: After some digging, here's what I found. This is it:



"We Called Him E.T." by Tom Wayne

Well, at least now I know the guy's name.

True blue shouldn't be too hard to find. I have that one too. Now that I see the ET one, I want that!!! I collect 80's music as well!!!

EmeraldSkies said:

ernestsewell said:

YEP. It looks more pink in your pic. For everyone - it's actually a darker purple, mostly transparent (opposed to the opaque Purple Rain disks). I think the PR disks looked more lavendar.

I've never played my 1999 new master, nor have I played the other purple vinyl that I remember. No reason to really.

I just need to find two more colored disks. The 7" of "True Blue" from Madonna that was a blue disk. AND a very rare (if it even exists anymore) 7" red vinyl of some song about E.T. It was a big hit after the movie came out.

This one....



http://www.trademe.co.nz/...463519.htm

At one point in History certain record labels would put different genres on different color vinyl, for example, pop on black vinyl, country on green, R&B on red and so on. Later it was just a gimmick to get people to buy the record. Here are some of my colored vinyl (non-Prince):

Misfits-Collection (This one is now autographed, this picture is before I got Jerry Only to sign it):


Kiss my ass (Kiss tribute album featuring Lenny Kravitz, Garth Brooks and others):


Grand Funk-We're an American band:


Blondie-Heart of glass:


Alice in Chains-Grind:

White Zombie-More human than human (10" yellow):


The Cure-Friday I'm in love (this one is actually pretty rare and worth some decent money):


Dead or Alive-You spin me round (like a record) (Mexican pressing):


Reba McEntire-You keep me hanging on (Reba does house music, no kidding):


Funkdoobeist-Bow Wow Wow:

Mighty Mighty Dub Cats-Magic carpet ride (10" vinyl):


Ronnie Milsap-Stranger in my house:


The Beatles:


Steely Dan-Aja:


Kraftwerk-Pocket calculator:

Madonna-True blue (as seen before ):


Stryper-Soldiers under command:


Elvis Costello-What's so funny bout peace love and understanding:


Real 2 Reel-Are you ready for some more:


KD Lang-If I were you:

I like to buy Prince albums for 2 reasons:
ITS PRINCE, of course and
the album sleeves. Most of the album sleeves have cool pics/imgaes on them..

I forgot about that Stryper record. I need to dig that one up at the record shop.

"Vinyls" is not a word. I hate when people come into the record store I work at and say "vinyls"....


Nero

ernestsewell said: