hey, remember that guy that found that velvet underground acetate for 75 cents...

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Yeah, I, albeit I have a lack of experience with it, thought in ebay, no one seriously bids untill the last half hour or so and the price just skyrockets. I must say, this last week has been quite a spectacle, otm in regards to the watching sports analogies indeed. Ha, I bet that the bid that raised it from $50,000 to $100,000 was fake, if that was true I couldn't imagine how pissed off I'd be.

― mehlt (mehlt), Saturday, 9 December 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ain't no half steppin'

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i have no idea what that meant.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link

the "leaked" version is not from the same recording, as i understand it; rather, it's from a shitty japanese bootleg.

― sean gramophone (sean gramophone), Saturday, 9 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt that. It's not shitty enough. Besides, what I'm hearing is exactly what is described on ebay and elsewhere.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

mechadaddy Wesley Sniped them all

― obi strip (sanskrit), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

did you mean: Macdaddy

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mechadaddy

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I really hope it's not the guy in that first link.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope we'll find out what happens. Is this mechadaddy serious? Will the item go to the first actual bidder they find (if any), will they relist it if none were for real?

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/10/vintage.velvet.ap/index.html

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

no answers in that article sadly

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

re: cnn article

surprised chelsea market dude looks that young, my mental image of him was +300 pounds, heartburn of psoriasis, and a ponytail laden with half a pound of dandruff.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeez, he could look a bit happier seeing as he just flogged a record and made over 200,000% profit on it.

― sgh (sgh), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

doesn't have the money in his hand yet

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Hopefully he hasn't already posted the record then.

― sgh (sgh), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Course not. Ebay rules.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The story's not over yet:

http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=26921

"Ish" says:

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:08 pm

I was at the auctioner's store today and apparently the sale ended up being bogus.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

.. dude!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

excellent!

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, scuttlebutt is that record has not been sold.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

they'll just go down the list shooting out second chance offers. it will be interesting to see if there will be an actual paying customer willing to go above $100k.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

yep, the $155K bid aint happening:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061211.UNDERGROUND11/TPStory

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

On the weekend Saturn received an e-mail from the supposed winner who said a friend, unbeknownst to him, had, as a lark, bid on the acetate using his (the supposed winner's) computer at work and account number. "Ohmigod, I'm so sorry," the e-mail read in part. "I can barely afford gas for my car" let alone more than $150,000 for a 40-year-old disc of acetone-covered aluminum.

A "friend"? Yeah, right.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nme.com/news/velvet-underground/25419

Here's a confused account of it!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

'the definitive version'

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone at the NME is drunk just copy pastes superlatives haphazardly into AP newswire stories and press blurbs.

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The mystery buyer has only been identified as mechadaddy.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.movieactors.com/freeseframes-1026/A-I263.jpeg

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

What kills me is the "related" news item on that page that says Weezer have "become" the Velvet Underground.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nme.com/news/velvet-underground/25444

OK, the final bid was fake.

The acetate contained the only definitive version, even.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

You watch - all of those bids were fake, and the guy will end up selling it at a loss for 50 cents.

― Deutsche Shitpump (NickB), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=12754

(with a picture of Iggy Pop at the moment)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Ish" posted this link:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/121406/news2.html

― Bee (Bee OK), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

It's back (from Pitchfork):

Oh boy, here we go again. As previously reported, Sunset Rubdown merch guy Warren Hill scored the supreme rock'n'roll artifact, an acetate test-pressing of an early version of the first Velvet Underground record, for $0.75. He put it on eBay, somebody named "mechadaddy" won it last Friday, and as mentioned in our year-end news wrap-up, "mechadaddy" turned out to be just some schmo whose buddy hacked into his eBay account. A deadbeat, as they call them on the wild frontiers of eBaynia.

But Warren's not daunted by one chump bidder, no no! He re-listed the acetate for auction today, but here's the catch: only pre-approved eBay users can bid, which means you have to e-mail Hill first. Info here.

And hot golly, it's only $0.99 right now! The best part: Dude's already making a profit.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-NICO-1966-Acetate-LP-ANDY-WARHOL_W0QQitemZ300060897304QQihZ020QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Bee (Bee OK), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

this shit is so last week

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

when are they going to auction the cylinder recording of thriller pressed on michael jackson's dick??

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i would definitely be willing to break into my friend's account to bid $150,000 for that

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is he using eBay instead of some big auction haus?

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

this is still the crux of his dementia. can't you just shill it to the hard rock cafe?

― ian (orion), Friday, 15 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

oi, mechadaddy, stop it!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6182113.stm

;-)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yikes! This is all too much for me.

Maybe I ought to put on George Harrison.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 16 December 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I did a little noise reduction on the acetate version of "I'm Waiting For The Man"...

http://download.yousendit.com/1B55CDDB4151B272

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, are you making them all shiny shiny?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Like boots of leather?

Shiny's the wrong word methinks... how about borderline listenable? It's tough to get rid of that much surface noise without warping the music a bit.

I wasn't planning to do them all but if there's a particular track you'd like to hear I'll give it a whirl.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I might have a bash at European Son later if I can find the time.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Bump

13 hours to go, current high bid approx. $25K, bidder ID kept private

http://cgi.ebay.com/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-NICO-1966-Acetate-LP-ANDY-WARHOL_W0QQitemZ300060897304

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 December 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Done!

US $25,200.00 - 0.75 = $25,199.25 for Mr. Hill! Sold for 33,599 times the amount he paid for it.

Which would have gotten a lot of headlines if only that fake crap hadn't happened last week. Now, it's "only 25,200"

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

PAYPAL FEES ARE A BITCH

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anyone else have a bash at other tracks?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops. I forgot I was going to do that. No, not yet, although I may get around to it sometime.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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