Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance

I was trying to find the inner-sleeve artwork to Prince’s Purple Rain LP, to use as a new background to Something Changed (it’s looking really very white right now, after I sucumbed to a plague of criticism about that flower background and shades of green. What to do?) The inner sleave is that backdrop of flowers laying on white if you know it. Yeah, more flowers. Couldn’t find a good sample of it though.

In my quest I decided to put together all the album artwork I have in my Prince collection, or at least that which has made to my MP3 player. So here’s a page of covers .

That’s not the full set though. It’s missing quite a few boots, some tapes, and most of the 7” vinyl covers. All in all my collection consists of some 180 official releases and 700 unreleased studio tracks. Here’s an almost up-to-date list of my whole collection. It’s only a fraction the size of some of the real nutters out there (Serge?), and I really mean a small fraction.

I largely collected stuff for the sake of new music rather that different album art or pressings. So just about all of my discs include music you can’t find anywhere else. I’m not all that interested in collecting boots, videos, t-shirts or posters.. It’s just the music that matters.

The most prized possessions in the collection would have to be the Sexy Dancer 12” and Pope 12”, and The Family CD. I got them all for a song and they’re worth a bomb, especially Pope. The most sought-after items I don’t have are the Madhouse 8 CD, the I Wish U Heaven CD, the Apolonia CD and the Gett Off birthday promo.. I’ve come across them but heck if I’m going to pay hundreds of dollars for a disc. All good things have a limit I suppose.