Prince Purple Rain (Quiex, Shrink, Hype, Poster)
RARE original 1984 FIRST PRESSING on translucent (when held to light) QUIEX AUDIOPHILE VINYL. COMPLETE with POSTER INSERT, printed inner sleeve and cover still in the original SHRINK-WRAP with HYPE STICKER! Allied Record Company pressing with plant ID 'Q' logo in the dead wax run-outs.
Vinyl has several faint surface sleeve scuffs just holding grade back from NM, nothing I can feel. Labels have many light spindle marks. Original inner sleeve has cornerwear/edgewear, light handling wear/wrinkling, light ringwear and seam splitting at the middle of the bottom and side edges. Fold-out poster insert is excellent with a touch of cornerwear/edgewear and light handling wear/wrinkling. Poster is unhung with no tape, pin-holes, etc. Cover in the original shrink-wrap with hype sticker has a smushed/bent/creased top left corner (pictured) and lightly bumped right side corners.
Songs: Let's Go Crazy, Take Me with U, The Beautiful Ones, Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Purple Rain
If you’re not familiar with QUIEX, it's like this: As CDs began coming on the scene in the 1980’s, record companies started pressing “Quiex II” LPs primarily for radio stations. The idea was to show that vinyl was still king and sounded just as good--or better--than CDs. MOST Quiex pressings were marked as Quiex that were shipped to radio. If too many were pressed, they were packaged as regular LPs and those lucky enough to unknowingly buy them were then blessed with clearer sound! This translucent (when held to light) AUDIOPHILE beauty is one of those pressings!
Genre: Funk / Soul / R&B
Condition: NM-
Cover Condition: VG++Label: Warner Bros. Records
Reference Number: 1-25110
Date: 1984
Country: US
SKU: 13784
Music Formats > LP
Audiophile Pressings > Audiophile Pressings
$100