Please state your name, address, credit card details and where you bought your copy (copies) of Purple Rain in the thread below:

Sure thing if eye can find the dam thing!

That's cute...

Yes I did...I believe I bought it from "Peaches." 25 years ago.

Ordered Purple Rain DVD through Murry Neck Music World. (Now Leading Edge Music) Alice Springs then a year later bought again
Leading Edge Australia for 20th Aniversary Edition. Not Sure if Credit Was Used Probley Payed Cash.
Toby Bens
[Edited 4/24/09 14:15pm]
Sorry on CD From Chatter Box Alice Springs Australia and Murry Neck Music World Alice Springs
[Edited 4/26/09 15:21pm]

Ilove said:

I bought PR with cash....
Really sorry for prince, but i seem to have lost the receipt....

must be able to figure out where that bargain Purple Rain DVD was bought

I got mine plus many others for a penny through Columbia House

Y'all ain't right. I damn near spit my food out when I saw that Uncle Sam/Prince poster.

Bless his heart!

Errr, ok, I have Purple Rain on....

UK vinyl
US vinyl
German vinyl
Japanese vinyl
Picture disc
Purple vinyl
UK cassette
US cassette
Japanese cassette
UK CD
US CD
Japanese CD

So that makes 12 copies just for me then.
[Edited 4/24/09 15:22pm]

well I bought the vinyl in my local record store in 1984, later on purple vinyl also, and of course the cd, vhs and dvd

great artwork,







credits, pics are from sleevographia


btw: can anyone tell me the sales international for the PR album in 2009?

My guess is around 20 million copies sold?

ok £4.99 second hand from mvc (now closed)

vinyl from charity shop £0.99

vinyl w/ revolution poster from new york bootleg store $17.00

I taped my brother's tape--peer to peer file sharing, old school!

Of course I also bought an LP and CD years down the road

Ill say as high as 30 mil...

Love that pic!
Well, I have a Purple Rain 12 inch vinyl that my son purchased at a flea market in Brooklyn 2 years ago. You think that will help?
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I crunched all the numbers and it seems that on PR, WB under paid Prince by exactly $3,121.77, creepy huh?

let's see, i bought mine in 1991 at warehouse records in the peachtree mall in columbus georgia, it was a cassete tape, and it costs $8.99. i still have the wrapping and price sticker.... oh and i paid cash.

Reverend said:

that is so kl!!! how you do it?..if it was you who did it

,but seriously,ya'll know that you would'nt want to be paid for only part of the work you do. I think this is what Prince is trying to do,get reimbursed for all copies he did'nt get paid for,that were sold over seas.

Reverend said:

OH MY HELL


THE LAUGH OF THE DAY

eye agree with him do yo audit boi! u deserve every penny

warner bros. = warn a brotha'!

I bought legitimately:
2 Purple Rain Movies (Orginal & Anniverary)
2-CDs Purple Rain
1-DVD Purple Rain

It's not just a PR audit. It's an audit of all his WB material. Gheez people.

ernestsewell said:

but it's an unrealistic claim that he won't even follow through on anyway. most of his wb career occurred in a time period where records are sketchy even if the company involved isn't trying to obscure the real picture. there is literally no way he can really carry out such an audit with any meaningful degree of accuracy.

here's an interesting question: do you think the total royalty money wb cheated prince out of (meaning: the money they contractually agreed to pay him but didn't pay him) exceeds the total amount of money paisley park has stiffed various companies for during the same period?

stanleylieber said:

Record companies often do audits, and there are independent people brought in as well to do them. So it's not unrealistic. He mentioned a few years ago about the audit starting up, so it's obviously underway. He didn't say they were STARTING it, when he was on Tavis, he said they were DOING it already.

I bought Purple Rain three times. The day it was released - on vinyl - cash purchase. Some time later - on CD - I have no idea how I paid for that one.

And a couple months ago, I bought the 180-gm vinyl re-issue. Paid cash for that one, too.

Genesia said:

How is the 180 gm ? I'm curious.

And for the record, I own the movie and/or soundtrack on the follow formats, CURRENTLY:

Beta tape
VHS
CED disk
Laserdisk
Both DVD sets
Blu Ray DVD
Work print on DVD
About six copies on vinyl, including the purple vinyl of the album, the 12" and 7" singles (as well as "When Doves Cry" 7" on purple vinyl)
CD

Genesia said:

Does it come with the poster like in the original?

EmeraldSkies said:

Nope.