Being the sad old bugger that I am, I'm keen to complete my collection of Prince 8 track cartridges.

If any are selling, please could you get in touch via orgnote or email (gavin@uptown.se) with details of the item, condition, price and your location.

Ta
Gav

I'd be interested to know which Prince albums made it to 8-Track. Also, which one's made it to MiniDisc?

squirrelgrease said:

Everything up to SOTT for 8 track (SOTT being the rarest).

As for MiniDisc, I don't think there's any at all due to Prince being on WBS and MiniDisc being a Sony format, however I'm not 100% on that.

Gav said:

Very interesting. So at least a couple of Prince LPs made their debut on 8-Track, cassette, vinyl and CD at the same time.

squirrelgrease said:

Sort of, ATWIAD, Parade & SOTT were releases by Columbia House so they may have been slightly later.

there is also a Purple Rain 8-track manufactured by Columbia House

And I have a 1979 8-track simply called Segway : Jazz Freeque with the Prince song : Crazy You

xenophobia2002 said:

The later ones were Columbia House ONLY, PR was both WBS & CH (different colour cartridges).

Hi,

I have never seen an 8track cartridge of prince, anyone has a picture? How do they look (I guess they never caught on in Europe?)

I have For You on 8-track, never looked at the label, but its black so it's a Warner Original, I'm assuming.

CapedCrusader said:

Yep, that's the Warner's one - I have that

I got this a few years ago (still sealed too!)
I like it cuz it's kinda kooky (not to mention that a lot of the songs are split!

[Edited 7/25/06 12:02pm]

Bloody hell Gav - bit dog-eared ain't it? Obviously well played and much loved!

Mind if I bung 'em in the gallery?

PS: Cracks me up how these 8-track tapes dismember tracks!

That one has had a hard life

I have another in much better quality but haven't got around to scanning it just yet.

Feel free to use the photo's but please just copy the images to the org repository rather than nicking all my bandwidth on my personal site

Gav said:

We can't do that re: the gallery, besides - I wouldn't anyway.

Anyhoo - it's live. Cheers!

No wonder 8-tracks were so sorely made fun of. . . those tracks are ALL messed up! In order and in way having beginings and conclusions! I realize, the technology limits how much can be on one "track" but. . . jeez.

Maybe I just don't know how those damn things work?

Gav said:

I've never seen Prince on Mini Disc either, other than his appearance on the second Martika album.

HOWEVER, I'm pretty sure I've seen one of his 90s albums on the rather obscure DCC format. It may have been 'Diamonds & Pearls' - I'm unsure.

There's nothing on eBay at the time of writing though, so maybe I'm mistaken: http://search.ebay.co.uk/...prince+dcc

Justin1972UK said:

these were released on DCC:

DCC Germany 925110-5 Purple Rain
DCC Holland 7599-25379-5 Diamonds And Pearls

xenophobia2002 said:

Damn, two more to add to the "want list" - what you go and do that for Xeno !

They do show up on ebay every once in a while.

I will try to keep you updated !!

xenophobia2002 said:

Jeez. I forgot all about DCC.

then I guess you forgot about Video8 cassettes as well