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Reply #30 posted 04/26/16 5:16am

DaveT

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Even before Prince left us you couldn't pry my CD collection from my hands ... I'll be buried with it!

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Reply #31 posted 04/26/16 5:18am

Guitarhero

DaveT said:

Even before Prince left us you couldn't pry my CD collection from my hands ... I'll be buried with it!

That makes me smile , the same for me too.

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Reply #32 posted 04/26/16 5:31am

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SquirrelMeat said:


I didn't let it all go though. I kept a few sentimental items. SOTT gold disc award, Kiss Jacket, Purple Rain purple Vinyl, a pick, a few signed items and weird little things like Glam Slam matches. I kept all the offical CD's. I still have quite a bit of old vinyl in storage so I'll sell that at a later point.


Wha?!? The jacket Prince wore in the Kiss video, and in the movie?? eek

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Reply #33 posted 04/26/16 5:37am

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eyewishuheaven said:

SquirrelMeat said:


I didn't let it all go though. I kept a few sentimental items. SOTT gold disc award, Kiss Jacket, Purple Rain purple Vinyl, a pick, a few signed items and weird little things like Glam Slam matches. I kept all the offical CD's. I still have quite a bit of old vinyl in storage so I'll sell that at a later point.


Wha?!? The jacket Prince wore in the Kiss video, and in the movie?? eek



A copy. He had several of them for the parade tour. He would often throw them off into the camera pit (never the audience) and a security guard would pick it up and take it back stage. He didn't always get there in time. Young fans are like rabid animals lol

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Reply #34 posted 04/26/16 6:00am

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SquirrelMeat said:

eyewishuheaven said:


Wha?!? The jacket Prince wore in the Kiss video, and in the movie?? eek



A copy. He had several of them for the parade tour. He would often throw them off into the camera pit (never the audience) and a security guard would pick it up and take it back stage. He didn't always get there in time. Young fans are like rabid animals lol


You, sir, are THE MAN!!! biggrin

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Reply #35 posted 04/26/16 6:02am

dalsh327

Either cash in your chips or pass it along to someone who will appreciate your collection. If anything happened to any of us, that music will just wind up in some box being sold for next to nothing or given away.

Just because someone's posting ridiculous prices doesn't mean there's going to be any takers.

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Reply #36 posted 04/26/16 6:37am

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SquirrelMeat said:



TheW00denLeg said:




SquirrelMeat said:


I made about £25,000,



Sh*t, wtf did you sell? eek




I sold my whole vinyl collection with some of his 12" and boots, but kept all the CDs. But I regret not buying more, then his stuff didn´t sell at all on the bay. Even ´The Rainbow Children´ CD was dirt cheap lately. Now 3121 goes about 35$ eek A few weeks ago it was 3-5$ with no bid.





Actually, The £25,000 didn't all come selling my Prince collection, about £5k came from me selling off my old childhood toys (I had some rare Star Wars toys and I always kept them boxed....OCD issues wink).


But the £20K of Prince stuff was from acutally from a fairly small part of the collection. Some Platinum and Gold discs, acatates, Parade tamborines and rare promo's, old concert posters. Other things like Picture discs, Strange Tales, Syndicate, Undertaker album, Goldnigga, 1978 Press Kit, Gett Off Birthday copy, CD's of The War, 51 Hours, MPLS, ONA, NPG singles etc. I had several copies of some, and was getting a few hundred for each of them.


There were a few items that surpised me how much they went for. The Crystal Ball 5 disc puck. I had 5 spare (bought them at a London Record Fair for £5 each to give to friends but never got round to it.) and I think a got well over £100 each for them. Even The Vault Book (signed by Per) went for £400. A good fan on here bought).

I don't regret it all all. It freed up a room in my house and freed my mind of consumerism. Also, there was little I didn't have, so the fun had gone out of collecting. In essence, I completed the sticker book.

I went back to basics and just play all the music. I still have every note of music. That said, my gold disc of Sign O The Times takes pride of place on the wall over my Computer NAS where my 120Gb of purple sounds sit and next to my Prince CD rack. Prince now occupies a quiet corner of my study....and he always will.




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Reply #37 posted 04/26/16 7:04am

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I said it before, i'm glad i bought every album before. Now it seems getting a physical copy of some of them will be impossible -unless you are rich-.

My only regret is not buying more vinyls before. I noticed many of them are out of stock now.

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Reply #38 posted 04/26/16 12:04pm

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TKO said:

I said it before, i'm glad i bought every album before. Now it seems getting a physical copy of some of them will be impossible -unless you are rich-.

My only regret is not buying more vinyls before. I noticed many of them are out of stock now.

'Barnes and Noble' has quite a few vinyls that you can order and they will ship them to you or to the store for free pick up. I found that out when I went to reserve my copy of 'Hit N Run Phase Two' on Saturday. The sales clerk said they were getting a lot of Prince vinyls this coming Friday too. Guess who's paycheck is going to Barnes and Noble this week? whistling lol

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Reply #39 posted 04/26/16 12:09pm

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DaveT said:

Even before Prince left us you couldn't pry my CD collection from my hands ... I'll be buried with it!

nod My Prince CDs have their own case and it doesn't leave my house. Only Prince CDs I bring into my car are burned copies. No way I'm was going to risk losing them even when Prince was still here. They are much to valuable to me to let go.

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Reply #40 posted 04/26/16 2:12pm

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Guitarhero said:

DaveT said:

Even before Prince left us you couldn't pry my CD collection from my hands ... I'll be buried with it!

That makes me smile , the same for me too.

And in all purple of course, against white with flowers sprinkled around, just like the Purple Rain cover! smile

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Reply #41 posted 04/26/16 3:38pm

Luli

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Yes, I sold all my records when CD's was the deal and I had to
move to a smaller apartment. I had all his records including his #1.
I have few CD's including the Black Album.
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Reply #42 posted 04/27/16 12:28am

Guitarhero

DaveT said:

Guitarhero said:

That makes me smile , the same for me too.

And in all purple of course, against white with flowers sprinkled around, just like the Purple Rain cover! smile

smile

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Reply #43 posted 04/27/16 2:47am

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TKO said:

I said it before, i'm glad i bought every album before. Now it seems getting a physical copy of some of them will be impossible -unless you are rich-.

My only regret is not buying more vinyls before. I noticed many of them are out of stock now.

If all major artists passings are any indication, after a few months the unfortunate cash in "hype" will die down and the prices will drop back to normal (or slightly more than before). So you could wait a few months and see how the prices of the vinyls are then.

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Reply #44 posted 04/27/16 5:06am

mrlegrind

When I bought the Crystal Ball 5 disc puck, I sold my 4 Disc box set version. I regret selling it as it was easier to retrieve CDs from that than the puck:-)

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Reply #45 posted 04/27/16 6:06am

dalsh327

I'm sure people are scouring thrift stores to make a quick profit on eBay, but I'm sure there's still plenty of CD and vinyl in the "off the beaten path" shops.

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Reply #46 posted 04/27/16 6:15am

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I've missed a lot of work lately due to health issues and could really use the $. Looking at eBay I calculate that I could make back all that I've gotten behind and be far enough ahead to cover myself for months to come...

That said, no way in hell am I selling anything other than duplicates. My collection of Prince CDs & Vinyl (+ Cass, VHS, DVD, Bluray, books, magazines, comics, posters, t-shirts, buttons, etc...) is far too important to me and if I sold them I would regret it forever.

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