What is the most money you've paid for a Prince album? For me it was probably either a Musicology vinyl record (unofficial but it still sounded ok) or The Album on vinyl. Can U tell me (And some other fans) what them most you have paid for a Prince (or instead) album? would be intrested in what you guys say!

I spent quite a lot on the Carmen Electra album when I spotted it while walking past a record store in NYC in 2004 (the week he played Madison Sqaure Garden on the Musicology Tour)

Eh, maybe about 80 euro a decade ago on a cd of The Family that I'm fairly sure is an almost perfectly made boot.

I think I paid $50 for the "Small Club" show on vinyl back in 1988 or 1989.

120 Dutch guilders for The Hits 1 & 2 and B-sides (1993)

Equivalent to €120 now I guess with all the inflation over these 25 years.

Dunno what I paid for b00tlegs. Depended on the source...

Don't remember anymore, the time that I had to still buy older Prince and related stuff has been 30 years in the past now. (took me 3 years and bit to get everything I had missed) I remember I had to pay more for old P-Funk records than for Prince related stuff.

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I might have paid a lot for the first good boots of the Black Album (that were made to look like the real thing). It cost more than Small Club, either the X-records CDs or the vinyl, that much I know. Bootlegs back then were quite expensive, but I hardly made any money, so everything was expensive.

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I do remember not wanting to spend around 200 guilders (around €90) for Strange Tales From The Rain, as it didn't contain any music I didn't already have.

For an album? $120US for a used One Nite Alone - Solo Piano CD.

I've paid about that much for some 12" singles on vinyl, too.

£45 for a CD copy of the "Gold Experience." Its very fucking hard to find any Prince albums in Ireland, let alone his 90s stuff, I had to order online and I wanted a version that looked fairley looked after... so I had to pay that for the CD... I was very happy with it tho

77 bucks for 3 albums on Lotuscam.com, that's 25,66 bucks a record and that's pretty much all I got for my money

I also paid 100 bucks for 4 CD's in 2002 but in the end I think I received 2 ONA Live, 3 ONA + Xpectation so that was OK

Now there were some naughtly bootlegs I paid 30 bucks a piece back in the early 90's.

$60 for the bootleg Return Of The Bump Squad from Cyberseekers way back when.

VanGogh said:

Mine had to have been from Prince directly. From 1-800-New-Funk I bought Crystal Ball at a premium and got the Come On maxi CD with The One remix - I just had to have that one. Glad I got it though because I hadn’t see it stores otherwise not once.

Can you still call 1-800-New-Funk?

I think about $100 for that purple paisley hinged Diamonds & Pearls box.

It was cool, but very disappointing to find out that it was an unofficial release. I was able to sell it back to the same store (for much less, obviously).

i think i gave around a hundo for a first press cd of 'goldnigga' about 20 years ago...that's the only one i've ever paid a 'collector's price' for. everything else, i've paid retail or less.

How much were Crystal Ball and Emancipation when they released? My most expensive should be which ever of those cost the most.

For a one off, the most I paid was £300 for a gold disc award for SOTT.

For regular items (be it rare promos), I paid £70 each for the the vinyls of His Majesty's Pop Life and Strange Tales.

Seems cheap now what with the crazy prizes, but they were expensive at the time.

udo said:

I don't remember how much exactly (north of $300), but it was for an official Undertaker CD.

Not an album but I paid $496 for the "51 hours" 12 inch promo

djdaffy1227 said:

Not an album but I paid $496 for the "51 hours" 12 inch promo

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Never having heard it, but not being quite sold on the track after reading the story about it on Princevault, was it worth it?

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It's definitely one of the rarer Prince items in existence..

Luckily most of the times didn't have to during the vinyl/cd stages I worked in a Wrecka Stow.

I saved my allowance when I was about 12-13 and paid $50 for The Hits/The B-Sides.

mediumdry said:

mediumdry said:

djdaffy1227 said:

Not an album but I paid $496 for the "51 hours" 12 inch promo

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Never having heard it, but not being quite sold on the track after reading the story about it on Princevault, was it worth it?

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It's definitely one of the rarer Prince items in existence..

Being a collector, YES, it was worth it to have this beautiful record in my collection. I know lots of people put the song down but I like the song. Is it the greatest song in Prince's catalouge? Not by any stretch but I can enjoy it for what it is.

NorthC said:

mediumdry said:

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Never having heard it, but not being quite sold on the track after reading the story about it on Princevault, was it worth it?

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It's definitely one of the rarer Prince items in existence..

I have heard it and I would say it's not even worth 51 cents. [Edited 6/21/18 13:29pm]

sexton said:

I don't remember how much exactly (north of $300), but it was for an official Undertaker CD.

There was an official undertaker cd?

kewlschool said:

sexton said:

I don't remember how much exactly (north of $300), but it was for an official Undertaker CD.

There was an official undertaker cd?

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It was 'official' but not official enough so most of it was destroyed.