Strive said:

Fuck clickbait

A former record pressing plant employee has recently come forward to reveal that he has a previously unknown original Canadian pressing of Prince’s 'The Black Album', the artist's rarest album and one of the most expensive records of all time. Now this new copy is believed to be the only Canadian variant of 'The Black Album' known to exist. Gold was called in to inspect the record in person and after considerable research he confirmed its authenticity. Also, based on the listing images in the Discogs Database, Discogs' Discography Specialist, Brent Greissle believes it to be legitimate as well. Gold spoke about the discovery of this ultra-rare piece of vinyl: "As word spread of the discovery of the five sealed copies, a former Canadian record pressing plant employee contacted me with an unbelievable story of his own. In 1987 he was working at the Columbia Records Canadian pressing plant in Canada. When 'The Black Album' was pulled and the copies that had been made marked for destruction, he kept one copy for himself. He never realized its rarity or value until reading about the discovery of the US copies in Rolling Stone and contacted me."

lol. let's call it what it is: he stole it. i'm not complaining. people taking copies of it home
that they saved from destruction is what got us the bootleg of the album in the first place.
but lets not pretend that this is just someone who stumbled upon a box of stuff he got to
take home from work on his last day he simply stole it. and he'll make some good $ off
it too, no doubt

https://mixmag.net/amp/141826

Instead of pointing to not-that-great rewrites, go read the actual source of the news @ RecordMecca.