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The White Album. Bought the CD at a flea market for $8.00.

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The Black Album in 1992. From my local record store (breaking all kinds of laws. Lol). Cost me AU$80, by far the most expensive single CD I've ever purchased. The quality was amazing, and I was shocked it was never released... well... until 2 years later. To this day still the only bootleg I ever purchased. Thank you internet! I still remember seeing it in that glass display case at the counter.

The Black Album was mine.

Lisa...Your Love is So Hard. 1991. Not the best boot to choose as the first in retrospect. Sound quality was not good. Got it through one of those inserts that used to come with Uptown mag

After the august 17th 1986 I put up an add for wanted recordings and got tapes of Parade outtakes with the best OF4$ - All My Dreams fade out-in (not charade) and Prince in Ahoy the 18th.

A cassette of the '87 New Morning show, bought at a record fair in a sports centre in Bracknell, with track #5 listed as "Wasn't My Face"...

The Black Album...on cassette

Mine was a vinyl pressing of The Black Album way back in the day (probably a year after the original was pulled from being released). I purchased it from someone in California and eagerly awaited it's arrival in the mail. Came with an all black cover with a lighter black being the background and a darker black of an image of Prince on front with the back being just the song titles listed. @1986 Erotic City Records. I think I paid $40 for it which back then was pricey. About ten years later a friend from Amsterdam brought me three CDs- A Place In Heaven, Crystal Ball and Forever In My Life.

Romeoblu said:

Black album cassette tape. October 31st 1988

Got the same around the same time. I was in the Navy, and it was sometime in 1988. Somehow, that cassette of music made it to a Navy ship docked in Philadelphia and into my office.

Back in the early 2000's a Canadian lady named 'Seduction 747' would upload MP3s on her website. I downloaded City Lights and could not believe my ears. Eventually I got connected to a guy in Europe that would sell me original boots so I started buying the complete Sabatage collection starting with Purple Finale.

SantanaMaitreya said:

A cassette of the Black Album, back in 88. I wasn't even a big fan yet, I didn't have all his albums, but everybody wanted to hear this. I can't remember what my first bootleg CD was.

This, excpet my dub was slightly slow. Not enough to notice anything weird sounding but enough to notice how sped up the real album was when i got it.