I like to explore used stores for rare Prince items. Every once in a while, I will find something good. Yesterday I found a whole bunch of great stuff across the day:

Black Album

Erotic City CD Single

N.E.W.S

1999 with no DMSR (again, not sure how rare this one is)

and

Sheila E. (Self Titled)

I was blown away!

What are some of your recent finds?

T.C. Ellis for $.50; Pandemonium for $1

One time my library had Jill Jones and I was so tempted to keep it.

Our local used cd stores have turned into wank fests for Pink Floyd and Hawkwind fans, which is fine.

We have a branch of Fopp Records, who are owned by HMV, and they have really low prices for a lot of Prince cd's.

In the past there has been Lotus 3 disc for £4, The Hits/B-Sides for £3, N.E.W.S for £3 and on and on.

I miss the second hand music shops though, they used to be good over here.

Our music store went out of business. In the used cd's I found Grafitti Bridge, 3121, & Lotusflower for 99 cents...

soulyacolia said:

I always check out second hand record shops and charity shops. I picked up a mint condition Gold Experience CD the other day for £2

Nice, I think it was the orger "blackbob" who found an original copy of "The Family" on cd in a charity shop not long ago.

Pays to have a quick look.

I saw The Gold Experience for $25. I did not buy, as I think the dude running the used wrecka stow thought he had a super rarity on his hands as it was labeled "out of print." But doesn't that summarize about 80% of P's albums? I've picked up just about all my P albums from used stores for $5.

I do that too.

I found:

Dirty Mind (2 bucks)

Diamonds and Pearls (5 bucks)

The Gold Expierience (7 bucks)

The Vault (5 bucks)

Oh I love to do that. I vintage shop for about almost everything. Once found lovesexy for 5.00 bucks.

3 promo CD's last month (99c each):

7

Gett Off

Man O War

Well the store I go to in Chicago sells only used mint CDs, so that helps me out A LOT. But my finds were:

1999 (w/o DMSR)

Theives in Temple CD single

Rainbow Children

Black Album

Emancipation

Gold Experience

etc etc

I found The Gold Experience OOP, cd some months ago in Mint condition.

80 dkr. - about 14-16 dollars, I felt lucky... haha, to have an extra copy.

thedance said:

I found The Gold Experience OOP, cd some months ago in Mint condition.

80 dkr. - about 14-16 dollars, I felt lucky... haha, to have an extra copy.

Per my post earlier, isn't all The Gold Experience OOP?

thedance said:

pald1 said:

3 promo CD's last month (99c each):

7

Gett Off

Man O War

That's really cool, I never find promo cds. I wish I could!

Nearly all of our CD stores and wrecka stows, have given up on Prince, Real Groovy only has the "Main albums" now (Stuff like Purple Rain, Parade, Diamonds and Pearls, Musicology and 3121) all at expensive priceslike $15 -$25 used and as much as $37.95 new, for some reason they charge $46.95 for Sign o the Times and $63.99 for Hits/Bsides which really are out of touch prices. The only cheap albums I found was Emancipation for $15, Rave for $5, Newpower soul for $10 and one copy of the Rainbow Children for $44.95 as it was an "Import" the album was in fact from Australia and this is New Zealand. Other stores like Mall and main street ones only ever have the following albums 1. Greatest Hits of Prince (2001 generic one) for $21.95 as a mid priced disc

2. Purple Rain $21.95

3. Diamonds and Pearls $21.95

and more rarely 3121 = $32 -35 full price.

Fortunately I bought most of my rare Prince vinyl and CD's in the mid 90s.

i've always like prince, but i have only recently gotten really into him, but over the past year i've gotten almost my entire cd collection used thru various shops:

controversy $5

1999 $6

purple rain $6

parade $6

sign o the times $10

lovesexy $6

batman $5

grafitti bridge $3

diamonds + pearls $5

love symbol $3

come $3

gold $4

emancipation um... $12 (actually bought one at a used shop $7 and was missing disc 2, found it a week later at another shop with all 3 discs in great condition for $5)

chaos + disorder $3

newpowersoul $4

rave un2 the joy fantastic $4

rainbow children $4

musicology $3

3121 $4

planet earth $4

indigo nites cd and book $6

lotus flower $4 (brand new, thanks target!)

and various other singles (when doves cry, purple rain, lets go crazy, letitgo, fury , 7, 1999 the new master)

my bf has bought me a few cds, and now all i'm missing from the main discography is Dirty Mind

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I found:

Emancipation-15$

Chaos and Disorder-5$

The Black album (w/o "The Sex Of It")-15$

Let's Go Crazy/Erotic City single-5$

Romance 1600-5$

Glamorous Life-5$

The Family-5$

Wendy and Lisa-15$

The Gold Experience-17$

pald1 said:

3 promo CD's last month (99c each):

7

Gett Off

Man O War

Man O War promo CD for 99c .... Good deal!!!

finky said:

pald1 said:

3 promo CD's last month (99c each):

7

Gett Off

Man O War

Man O War promo CD for 99c .... Good deal!!!

Yeah, lucked out on that one

I was lucky enough to find a copy of the rare "gold disc" german pressed edition of "ATWIAD" in a local record store.... got it for around £5 and it's been sold online before for over £100! That was a good day

Believe it or not everyone of my Prince cd's came from my fav used cd store except 3121, Musicology, Planet Earth, MPLSound and 20Ten other than that I bought them all in the bargain bin

Militant said:

I was lucky enough to find a copy of the rare "gold disc" german pressed edition of "ATWIAD" in a local record store.... got it for around £5 and it's been sold online before for over £100! That was a good day

Wow! That is impressive. I'd love to find something like that!

Sales people at Best Buys around my house run and hide when they see me enter the store because I'm the biggest molestor when it comes to Prince and MJ. I've eased up on MJ lately though, I've bought every single item that was ever up for sale ... But prince is another story. The only thing that's always in stock are the Rainbow Children and Purple Rain - that's it!

Recently:

N.E.W.S.

The Rainbow Children

I found The Gold Experience for $5 last summer. I found 20Ten for $3 last October in my local wreck stow, now I have like 2 copies of this album. COOL!

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silverchild said:

I found The Gold Experience for $5 last summer. I found 20Ten for $3 last October in my local wreck stow, now I have like 2 copies of this album. COOL!

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I had to buy that for $16 new at a record store (which just recently went out of business...they had a few copies....not sure if they sold those before markdowns or not...should've went there more often).

I NEVER find rareties in the CD section. Sucks.

Hello I'm new so be kind, this thread is the reason I joined. This is a nearly but nowhere near complete list of what cd's came into the shop where I work part time.

All Prince albums upto to "Rave" plus "Rave in2...." and Crystal Ball 4cd version.

Loads of Prince cd singles promos, Japanese, American maxi's almost all uk cd singles.

Madhouse 8

Madhouse 16

Jill Jones

T.C. Ellis "True Confessions" Signed

Vanity 6

The Family

Mavis Staples "Time Waits........."

The Time all the albums plus cd singles

Sheila E. "Glamourous Life" "Romance 1600" and "Sheila E."

Wendy and Lisa all the 80's albums and cd singles

Eric Leeds both Paisley Park albums

Tony Lemans album

Ingrid Chavez "Magic 1992" plus Us maxi cd singles

Oh almost forgot Apollonia 6 album Japanese cd complete with lyric sheet and obi strip.

There's loads more I can't think of at the moment plus rather alot of vinyl. Just thought I would share my happy 20 minutes of fun and a month of thinking about how much I spent.....................