Here's a sad topic: what's the coolest Prince item you ever had that you now lost, destroyed, given away etc., or worse yet, decided not to buy and later regretted it?

My offerings:

1. I lost my ticket stub from his 1983 performance in Augusta, GA

2. I threw away "1999" on 8-Track

3. Decided not to buy "Mountains" on 10-inch white vinyl (still kicking myself over that one)

Loads, but I regeret not buying The War on cd when it was available for semi reasonable money, now I don't think it's worth the £100+ price tag it now commands. Luckily I know a nice person who ripped me a copy from his cd.

i have LOST all my unreleaed stuff again as my ipod got stolen....and all my old boots are in a dusty attic in england.

8 track 1999? oops i threw all my tapes away.........when i was moving.as well as ALL my old boot tapes,

not to mention ALL my ticket stubs..

alphachannel said:

Here's a sad topic: what's the coolest Prince item you ever had that you now lost, destroyed, given away etc., or worse yet, decided not to buy and later regretted it?

My offerings:

1. I lost my ticket stub from his 1983 performance in Augusta, GA

2. I threw away "1999" on 8-Track

3. Decided not to buy "Mountains" on 10-inch white vinyl (still kicking myself over that one)

Yeah, keep kicking yourself.

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none

i could have bought even more crap from the NPG store that could be worth more money, but then it would lie in the same pile as the rest of the crap that i did buy but won't sell as i can't be arsed

if i could find someone face to face to offer me hard cash for my stuff then i probably would, but until then my very rare vinyl will stay locked in a dj box for another decade or decades, and the piles of rare cds will sit on the shelves, even the rare ones i have numerous copies that sell for £100 on fleabay

i have the music and it's backed up at least twice, and that's whats important

unique said:

none

i could have bought even more crap from the NPG store that could be worth more money, but then it would lie in the same pile as the rest of the crap that i did buy but won't sell as i can't be arsed

if i could find someone face to face to offer me hard cash for my stuff then i probably would, but until then my very rare vinyl will stay locked in a dj box for another decade or decades, and the piles of rare cds will sit on the shelves, even the rare ones i have numerous copies that sell for £100 on fleabay

i have the music and it's backed up at least twice, and that's whats important

one day you can whack it all on a little memory stick and send it to you old prince less pal in NZ!

infact just come over here and drop it off!!

Given the price Rave In2 goes for these days, I should have bought more from the webstore.

Also the NPG Hockey Jerseys seem to go for more than they used to. I have three of them (Purple, Aqua, Red) and I was wanting the whole set, but all the recent ones have gone for at least triple what I paid for the others... that was a few years back though.

I think that the older I get the less interested I become in collecting rare items. Like others here I have spent possibly thousands on Prince over the years and still have a lot of very tasty items, but having and buying really rare things is something I have lost interest in. I recently began selling Prince items that I have doubles (or more) of that I bought in my "must have everything no matter what the cost" days. So long as I have my unofficial material safely backed up, as well as my core collection and a few items that are really special to me then i'm happy.

Collecting, it's a funny business at times, a sickness of sorts.

I will always regret not buying the rave blue cloud guitar when I had the chance!

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I wish I hadn't thrown away all the longboxes that my CDs came in, since those are actually worth something now and would be cool to have.

Since I just started collecting Prince stuff the only thing I can offer to this thread are the casette tapes I got rid of last year... Not much of a loss.

Wish I hadn't sold my 'One Nite Alone' box, I've been wanting to hear it lately.

I had the Prince comic books but they got wet.

I threw away the case to “Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic” to save space. I had no idea people want that NPGMC crap.

My experience has been the opposite. I once had a massive cd collection but it was all stolen. Every single disc. Roughly 1500 pieces or so. I lost of lot of gems. But not a single piece of my Prince collection was taken. It's so large that I ripped it all to hard drive and store it in boxes in a closet in my basement. The thieves never saw it.

jonylawson said:

unique said:

none

i could have bought even more crap from the NPG store that could be worth more money, but then it would lie in the same pile as the rest of the crap that i did buy but won't sell as i can't be arsed

if i could find someone face to face to offer me hard cash for my stuff then i probably would, but until then my very rare vinyl will stay locked in a dj box for another decade or decades, and the piles of rare cds will sit on the shelves, even the rare ones i have numerous copies that sell for £100 on fleabay

i have the music and it's backed up at least twice, and that's whats important

one day you can whack it all on a little memory stick and send it to you old prince less pal in NZ!

infact just come over here and drop it off!!

right now it fits on a 3TB drive, but by the end of this week i'll have went over that limit but 4tb drives are almost 3x the price of 3tb drives. right now a 64gb memory stick is £30 so it will take a bit of catching up for memory sticks to drop in price, not to mention everything else i get in that time. it's like game of cat and mouse, my collection expanding at a rate close to technology

omg prince fams...i had a fire and my home burned to the ground last september,i barely made it out alive...everything i had collected since 1990 is gone,dvds,cds,books,scrapbooks of magazine articles,my photos from the celebration at paisley park,all my ticket stubs of every concert,backstage pass's,etcetc..out of all my material possessions i miss this stuff the most

My car was broken into in London back in 1998 and they tore through to the book to nick a bag. In the bag was my ATWIAD long box and a proper copy of the undertaker CD. That always bugged me.

The ones that got away? Hmmm. Harder. Eventually I got everything collectable I wanted, but I had to pay a princely sum for some of them.

The ones that I had the chance to get for very little, but ended up paying high for were Strange Tales from the Purple Rain, Royal Jewels, Peace and War.

You terrible, terrible fans!

I saw a painting of him at Kensington Market though I don't know if it was for sale or not, I could have asked and offered to pay for it, but left it. It would have looked tres iconic on my wall

I also saw a prince postcard at a store and I could get 2 more and that for a good price, but couldn't find a nice third one, and I'm extremely picky.

Mother threw out the following in 1998

8 foot long Graffiti Bridge Album poster with Prince

Large 1992 European Tour Poster

Selection of early 1990s cassingles, Gett Off, Cream, Diamonds and Pearls, Insatiable (Grrr!!!) Sexy MF, Money don't matter 2 night, Morning papers, Jerk out, New Power generation.

I lost Poster showing the 1988 Lovesexy tour entourage with Prince in the middle sometime around 2001.

Since I've only been a Prince fan for 5 years, I didn't have a chance to get a lot of now rare items when they first came out.

The only damaged Prince item I have is my Lotusflow3r shirt. I wore it very often, and the picture is beginning to come off, and it's got a hole or two in it.

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CrabalockerFishwife said:

The only damaged Prince item I have is my Lotusflow3r shirt. I wore it very often, and the picture is beginning to come off, and it's got a hole or two in it.

It's meant to. They're for your arms.

SquirrelMeat said:

My car was broken into in London back in 1998 and they tore through to the book to nick a bag. In the bag was my ATWIAD long box and a proper copy of the undertaker CD. That always bugged me.

The ones that got away? Hmmm. Harder. Eventually I got everything collectable I wanted, but I had to pay a princely sum for some of them.

The ones that I had the chance to get for very little, but ended up paying high for were Strange Tales from the Purple Rain, Royal Jewels, Peace and War.

if you stick a copy of newpowersoul in the front window of the car no one will ever break into it

CrabalockerFishwife said:

Since I've only been a Prince fan for 5 years, I didn't have a chance to get a lot of now rare items when they first came out.

The only damaged Prince item I have is my Lotusflow3r shirt. I wore it very often, and the picture is beginning to come off, and it's got a hole or two in it.

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i think you are the only person that actually received one of those t shirts. there are more geniune prince guitars in circulation than there are lotusflower.con t shirts

purple rain condoms.

erik319 said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

The only damaged Prince item I have is my Lotusflow3r shirt. I wore it very often, and the picture is beginning to come off, and it's got a hole or two in it.

It's meant to. They're for your arms.

I originally had it worded "I poked a hole or two in it", but I thought that made it sound like I did it intentionally, so I reworded it.

I was given a one sided promo of Head / Sister / Partup, for helping a friend move. Put in my car then helped him out. It went up to 90 that day and warped the vinyl. A painful lesson.

A UK Gotta Stop...12" Black White cover.

I have NOOOO farken idea where Ive left it!

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MarquessMarq said:

alphachannel said:

Here's a sad topic: what's the coolest Prince item you ever had that you now lost, destroyed, given away etc., or worse yet, decided not to buy and later regretted it?

My offerings:

1. I lost my ticket stub from his 1983 performance in Augusta, GA

2. I threw away "1999" on 8-Track

3. Decided not to buy "Mountains" on 10-inch white vinyl (still kicking myself over that one)

Yeah, keep kicking yourself.

[Edited 4/10/12 13:25pm]

Yeah I saw it when I was on college spring break back in '87. I assumed I could pick one up once I got back home but I was way wrong...

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