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"The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale" on vinyl on 23 February 2024! (previously leaked on eBay) UPDATE: Amazon USA has it listed for pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS65KT1K .
. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . ORIGINAL POST: . https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155933202009 . A planned reissue that got cancelled? . . [Edited 1/14/24 3:18am] | |
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Very interesting. Does it say 2022? Something BIG Is Coming. | |
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it states copywrite 2023, 1999 on the bottom left of the back cover... "Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends" | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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old friends for sale & crystal ball were both planned for rerelease under the old estate.. not sure if that still stands? They obviously have them printed by this picture.. D&P super deluxe stayed.. so I’d assume this and crystal ball will get a release soon.. | |
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Symbol album too, I think there was a leaked copy that sold on eBay. | |
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I knick-named my vinyl copy of 'The Truth' "skipper" cuz is was so warped!!! "Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends" | |
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THIS is one I will buy. | |
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One of the best albums covers. | |
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Ndorphinmachina said: One of the best albums covers. One of the worst album covers ever. Prince on a plastic chair, and a background glued in the most sloppy way on a meaningless picture of Prince backstage in a dressing room. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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It is a pretty hideous cover, there's no getting around it... but the contents of the album, I really like!
REALLY hoping this gets a vinyl release soon. Would love to have this on vinyl, along with Newpower Soul, NEWS and the others from that era that haven't seen a vinyl release yet....
Fingers crossed!! | |
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I used to work for Coconuts records when I was in college back in the day and claimed the promo copy of this and it was a plain black and white cover that just said Prince: The Vault - Old Friends 4 Sale. Had no idea what the actual cover was for years. I played the hell out of it!
Then fast forward to like 10 years ago I saw this in a bargin bin at my local wrecka stow and I thought, SCORE! Cool bootleg! Then realized it was this! Not sure if thats what was the intention to make it look like a bootleg with bad cover art, but it fooled me for a minute. lol | |
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Let's not talk about the lettering | |
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Let's not talk about the lettering Yeah, that’s the worst ever. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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Pretty sure I heard this is officially on the way.
This and Graffiti Bridge. But don’t remember where I read that! [Edited 1/2/24 10:02am] | |
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happyshopper said: Pretty sure I heard this is officially on the way. This and Graffiti Bridge. But don’t remember where I read that! [Edited 1/2/24 10:02am] Graffiti Bridge had a vinyl reissue by Warners in September 2023. The Vault had a Sony Legacy reissue in February 2022 but only on CD - a vinyl version has not been released and not confirmed either. There may or may not be something coming! | |
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if they ever do a vault box set, id like the cover to be the door of the vault. | |
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Why? How unbelievable original... NOT! It's just a bloody metal door. - "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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the piece they used to have on the door was cool https://consequence.net/2018/04/inside-princes-underground-bank-vault/ | |
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This would be a scandalous great cover, with dirty fonts all over it! And call it "Punch A higher Floor" And fill it up with dirty unrleased sexy funk tunes. The one controversial thing that really made Prince great and famous, the scandalous apporach.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) | |
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Looks like this getting released in February. Something BIG Is Coming. | |
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U are now an official member of the New Power Generation
Welcome 2 The Dawn Free the SDE now! | |
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Maybe not as a formal cover but it would be nice if some liner notes had some kewl pics of the actual Vault. These photos are neat. | |
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Maybe like a heavily stylized artistic re-interpretation of The Vault door. | |
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I doubt the vinyl re-issue will have anything that wasn’t on the CD release. Sony’s re-releases so far have tended to use a scan or something like that for the art work.
Funkenberry on Facebook has said this is going to be available at Target too. Hopefully this is the start of some kind of release a month 🤞 [Edited 1/14/24 13:16pm] [Edited 1/14/24 13:17pm] There may or may not be something coming! | |
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Personally I'm hoping for Love Symbol SDE We know it was remastered, we know there were vault tracks compiled and likely a show Blu Ray The Orger formally known as JAYJOE
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Not spotted before but it says on the Prince discography page about this album on: https://discography.princ...nds-4-sale that “The enclosed material was written during the period beginning 1/23/1985 and ending 6/18/1994 and was originally intended 4 private use only." It also says, “The title track, “Old Friends 4 Sale,” is the earliest song on the album, with the original recording taking place in 1985 while Prince was working on the Under the Cherry Moon soundtrack album Parade.” Prince Vault has the recording date for this song as 20 April 1985 - https://princevault.com/i...nds_4_Sale So Prince must have initially written the song ‘Old Friends 4 Sale’ on 23 January 1985, then recorded it 3 months later on 20 April 1985 - Prince Vault doesn’t tell us writing dates, just tracking/recording dates. By the way, on 23 January 1985, Prince did the third of 3 consecutive nights at the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati. https://princevault.com/i...nuary_1985 There may or may not be something coming! | |
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https://store.prince.com/...vinyl-150g
Available on the official Prince store now, ships 21 February 2024. Edit: And at Target… https://www.target.com/p/...nk=sametab [Edited 1/19/24 12:40pm] [Edited 1/19/24 12:41pm] There may or may not be something coming! | |
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Vannormal said: Ndorphinmachina said: One of the best albums covers. One of the worst album covers ever. Prince on a plastic chair, and a background glued in the most sloppy way on a meaningless picture of Prince backstage in a dressing room. An outtake : https://www.artnet.fr/art...5vHWfo2Bw2 "Money won't buy U happiness but it'll pay 4 the search." | |
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The pictures are orginally from the Neo Manifesto book that came out in 1993. | |
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