I now have 2 1994 CDs, 1 1994 cassette and a bootleg CD back from 87-88.

I'm asking because I found the 2nd CD for £9 today, and I bought it regardless of the fact that I'm short of cash and that I already have it. I guess because it's rare I want to know I have a back up incase one breaks... but I can't promise that I won't buy the next one I find.

U? Do U have more than 1 copy of a Prince album.


(I also have a D+P hologram CD and a second copy of NEWS, both sealed. God knows what I'm going to do with them. I don't want to sell them or open them!)

Before it was officially released I bought it about 5 times, the reason being because the sound quality was better than the previous ones I owned. I think in total I've spent $150 only the Black album alone and that doesn't include the offical release.

I have the black album by the black album band LP which I think is much more valuble

I had a tape before it was official that someone made me.

WHen it was released I bought 2 copies and still have one in the plastic.

wildblueangel said:

Hell yeah. Is it on vynal or CD?

CAMILLE4U said:

LP vynal, hello!


its gonna b a fortune when i sell it...the real not real black album!!!

wildblueangel said:

But I have the vinyl LP, so mine is worth even more.

In 1988,I bought a bootleg cassette copy of 'The Black Album'.In 1989,I bought an expensive vinyl copy from someone.A year later,I bought several vinyl copies that I saw at a small record store (these were on a label called 'Erotic City Records').And of course,in 1994,I bought the "official" copy released by Warners.


So yeah,I have bought several copies of this Black Album

sinisterpentatonic said:

DITTO !

CAMILLE4U said:

Great. Got it on CD when it was released... way back when I wasn't able to tell if this is Prince himself or not. Which means it's really a looong time ago.

Wolf

I just have the 1994 CD release and a bootleg from earlier on.

I have all my Prince music mp3'd since I listen to music in the office most of the day, t'is easier than swapping CDs around.

So I don't even touch the CDs other than for mp3-ing new releases.

If I saw It I would probably purchase it again.. but I never see it.. only seen it once in cassette form.. Had to order my disk.

I know what you mean. I found it on CD in a second hand shop the other day for £2. So, of course, I bought it. Now I have about 10 copies of the damn thing in one format or the other!

I have three copies. The first was on vinyl in some second hand shop in Georgetown while visiting D.C., then I went and taped it so it could go in the car with me, then I bought it when it finally came out in CD. That's it for me.

I have 2. A CD boot I bought in Switzerland under the counter in 92 for normal CD price, it was excellent quality - straight from the vinyl, presentation overall was brilliant except "Rockard in a FUNNY place" typo on inside cover.
Then bought official one 2 years later, thinking it would be better quality, but it wasn't really.

sinisterpentatonic said:

I got an original pressing on vinyl for $50.

charlottegelin said:

It's amazing how much tape-hiss is on the legitimate '94 release. Some boots have the same quality as the WB version.

wildblueangel said:

That white German dude sho' is funky.

I have the original vinyl LP, which I got from the Warner Bros rep. When he came back to get it I hid it.

It is now framed and on the wall in my house.

Makes a great conversation piece, you see the vinyl is all smashed to bits and scattered throughout the frame in the shape of a heart.

67TBirdHeartAttack said:

Smashed? Why? Didn't you hide it in time?

charlottegelin said:

Deliberately smashed and deliberatley placed in the heart shape, done about August '88 when Lovesexy finally became clear for me.

If you need to ask why then there is no point my explaining.

67TBirdHeartAttack said:




Would you have torn the Mona Lisa painting to pieces? Or van Gogh's Sunflowers?

Wolf

wsenges said:

I guess if the artist 'tells' you to, you just gotta.

(Though mind, he did say "don't BUY the black album" not "smash the black album into little pieces and arrange them into a heart shape.")

It's not that rare in the uk, Tower Records have it, HMV have it, Virgin have it and so do the Left Legged Pineapple!!

NCC2012 said:

i said i got the vinyl LP ...i have all LPs. I hate cds, they dont smell and sound the same as LPs. and i love the covers and feeling the record...

I have like 100 copies of the black album. Of course I have a cd burner and can make as many as I like.

SANSKER7 said:

im gonna report u 2 prince!!

I only have one copy of TBA. But I spotted a pristine copy of Exodus two weeks ago for 5 euro!!!

No I don't. I bought it on cassette when the official came out, and a dear friend of mine, burned a copy for me on Cd recently.

No, I only have one copy in CD.