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Thread started 12/13/17 12:22pm

SuperHero

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5 sealed 1987 US Vinyl copies of TBA discovered


Nice story about 5 sealed copies of the US 1987 TBA found after exactly 30 years.


A Remarkable Discovery

This example is one of five sealed copies discovered in December 2017, in the collection of a former Warner Bros. Records executive who worked on The Black Album. The executive’s daughter had purchased her first turntable and asked her parents to send her some albums. Their record collection had been boxed up in a closet for more than 25 years, and while searching for records that might interest their daughter, they stumbled upon two never-opened Warner Bros. Records mailers. Expecting to find some promo albums inside, they opened these for the first time and discovered five perfect, sealed copies of The Black Album. These had been sent to the executive in December 1987 when the albums were ordered destroyed, and for 30 years, the two mailers had sat unopened among their other boxed up vinyl.



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https://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/prince-sealed-1987-original-black-album-lp/

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Reply #1 posted 12/13/17 12:28pm

feeluupp

And they are being sold for $15,000 each...

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Reply #2 posted 12/13/17 1:32pm

OnlyNDaUsa

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$15,000 seems about right...

"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!"
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Reply #3 posted 12/13/17 10:34pm

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OnlyNDaUsa said:

$15,000 seems about right...


You're right on some levels.

There are also uncataloged copies on gray (or white?), and some on peach vinyl given to WB executives. Those, if they even exist, are priceless (to me).

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Reply #4 posted 12/14/17 10:27am

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No BTC taker? So NoCoiners? 1/10.000th of the famous bitcoin pizza sounds like a steal for TBA!

Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #5 posted 12/14/17 3:14pm

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SOLD

Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records.
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Reply #6 posted 12/15/17 6:35am

PeteSilas

my brother bought a bootleg version, i mentioned this to him last night, told him the bootleg was near worthless. I bought an even more worthless cassette of the album, both of us did at the lovesexy concert.

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Reply #7 posted 12/15/17 7:03am

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PeteSilas said:

my brother bought a bootleg version, i mentioned this to him last night, told him the bootleg was near worthless. I bought an even more worthless cassette of the album, both of us did at the lovesexy concert.

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I still remember the cassette copy circuit from school around 1988...

TBA was quite hot back then.

Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #8 posted 12/15/17 7:04am

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PeteSilas said:

my brother bought a bootleg version, i mentioned this to him last night, told him the bootleg was near worthless. I bought an even more worthless cassette of the album, both of us did at the lovesexy concert.

any decent sounding one is worth $10... what gets me is when they are being sold for $100 that gets me...


Like the NPGMC download albums that someone made on CDs and are being sold as "rare" well yeah they are rare but they are counterfeit... (as I suspect most of the WAR and One Night Alone Paino..." are).

So a CD of the slaughterhouse is worked $10 maybe $20 MAX...

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Reply #9 posted 12/15/17 7:06am

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udo said:

PeteSilas said:

my brother bought a bootleg version, i mentioned this to him last night, told him the bootleg was near worthless. I bought an even more worthless cassette of the album, both of us did at the lovesexy concert.

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I still remember the cassette copy circuit from school around 1988...

TBA was quite hot back then.

I was in the army and there were copies... several people had it on CD from Germany. Some seemed to not know or believe they were bootlegs. But I also had a few copies of the famous vinyl from Erotic City Record with the photo of Prince in black on a black sleeve.

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Reply #10 posted 12/15/17 7:55am

PeteSilas

udo said:

PeteSilas said:

my brother bought a bootleg version, i mentioned this to him last night, told him the bootleg was near worthless. I bought an even more worthless cassette of the album, both of us did at the lovesexy concert.

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I still remember the cassette copy circuit from school around 1988...

TBA was quite hot back then.

i'm sure the bootleggers made out quite well. dude was going up and down the line outside the venue.

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Reply #11 posted 12/15/17 8:31am

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The price of the last copy is raised to $20,000. Someone is having a nice Christmas by cashing $50,000 in a few days...
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Reply #12 posted 12/15/17 9:08am

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SuperHero said:

The price of the last copy is raised to $20,000. Someone is having a nice Christmas by cashing $50,000 in a few days...

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50K fiat$ versus een few bitcoin pizza's...

But will anyone ever play the vinyl at such a price? (when paid in fiat)

Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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