Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rain | Japan Original Pressing | OBI Strip | Lyric Insert | LP | 1984 Catalogue number: P-13021 Label: Warner Pioneer Format: LP, Album, Gatefold Country: Japan One of the most iconic albums of the 1980s, here in its original Japanese pressing — complete with OBI strip, Japanese lyric/liner notes booklet, and original poster. A must-have for any serious Prince collector. Vinyl condition: EX No significant scratches or dirt visible. Surface noise is minimal for a used copy. Sleeve condition: EX Gatefold sleeve is intact with no splits. Light staining present in places, consistent with age. OBI strip: Present. Shows light creasing, staining and a small tear. Intact and legible. Lyric/liner notes booklet: Included. Light creasing and staining present. Poster: Included — original Japanese pressing poster, a key element of the complete package. All imperfections are minor and consistent with a well-preserved 40-year-old copy. This is a solid, complete example of a highly collectible Japanese pressing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS PRESSING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Japanese pressings of this era are celebrated by audiophiles for their virgin vinyl formulation, near-silent surfaces, and dedicated remastering — widely regarded as among the finest-sounding editions of any album from this period. This copy retains its original OBI strip (帯) — the paper band exclusive to Japanese pressings, carrying track listings and liner notes in Japanese. A complete OBI is among the most prized elements of Japanese vinyl collecting and significantly increases the value of this pressing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHIPPING FROM JAPAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Ships from Japan via DHL Express (tracked & insured) ✦ Rigid LP mailer with inner sleeve protection ✦ Dispatched within 3 business days of confirmed payment ✦ Import duties may apply depending on destination