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

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― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

haha milton i totally missed that. in that case i have no issue at all! what threw me was how they kept going on about how they've "heard" from "friends" that it could be possibly to repair a scratch with "digital magic" or something, it seemed willfully ignorant. if i found this i'd spend about 24 hrs straight with my demo copy of wave editor and some headphones and get it all perfect. anyway - crazy, man, crazy.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

$130,100 now.

What is the most expensive record ever sold? Anyone know offhand? I know those Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 10"s can get up there.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Q: The 'rumor' about Moe's acetate is true! I have worked with her and Sterling on projects in the past, and they both mentioned how the band played it several times to see how the NY sessions had gone. I've seen it, with Sterling's handwritten 'featuring Moe Tucker' on the front of the white cover. This 'legend' is true--there definitely is another copy. --M.C. Kostek
Dec-04-06
A: Though we must still regard this as unconfirmed, we will post it in the interest of keeping our bidders informed about claims which seem credible to us. If this correspondence is indeed, as I am inclined to believe, from Mike Kostek, author of 'The Velvet Underground Handbook', we thank you for your contribution.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah, MC Kostek! Not heard that name in like 18 years... Many of those VUAS tapes were awesome.

― Mike McGonig (yetimike), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

So... this is really happening? I still think it's some kind of board invasion thing, but I haven't found the originating forum yet. (googling a couple of bidder names did lead to a forum the last time something big like this went down, but now, not yet)

some folks on the waxidermy board are definitely fake bidding as well:

http://www.waxidermy.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=5853

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

and:

http://www.collective-zine.co.uk/cboard/viewtopic.php?id=23670

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice finds!

Only a matter of time before this gets pulled and is done by a real auction house then?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be stupid to pull it now. Sure, there are a lot of fake bidders, but if some nut comes in at the last minute and bids 150K they'll make a lot more than they will through a real auction house. It's either going to end well or badly, but they'll never know if they end the auction prematurely.

Read that waxidermy thread, a lot of record collectors there have posted horror stories about trying to sell vinyl through auction houses, where rare recordings don't even get minimum bids.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

now that I'm listening to "European Son" more closely, it just sounds like a different mix, not a different take.

i thought that too when i heard it. kinda hope this does get cleaned up and released. i'd buy it ;)

― amon (amon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the high bidder (as of this moment) sold this recently:

"This pendant was handcut from a US penny using a saw that in no way has no handle. This piece of jewelry may be the most important and significant symbol of symbology since Jesus turned fish into wine. I have been working on this project for over twelve long years and I am now ready to share this visionary metaphor for life itself with all god's creatures except for lobsters, which are the most vile and destestible of all bottom feeders. The choice to make this available for auction on ebay was was not an easy one. The original plan was to give this to my only daughter on the day of her Graduation from the Berkley school of music. Though over the years I realized I am likely to never have a daughter so I figure this piece should end up in the hands of a complete stranger. A master pan flautist perhaps. So as they say in the old country, "with a banjo on my knee"."

http://i17.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/77/d0/2427_1.JPG

― scott seward (121212), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link

He better not be planning to pay with pennies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

What is the most expensive record ever sold? Anyone know offhand? I know those Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 10"s can get up there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_collecting#Most_Valuable_Records

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

ew, creepy John Lennon necrophilia makes it 10x anything else I guess.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah, way to go John's Children. I had no idea. I think Midsummer Nights Scene is probably worth 11k.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, you can get that Lennon album for $4.26 at Amazon! :-)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

haha scott that is incredible!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Some notes on what I heard:

That European son: When the big crash happens, the music continues as before on this one. The LP version is therefore an edit and I KNEW IT!!!

A Similar "I Knew it" was the chorus drop-in on "RunRunRun" which masks a tentative first "run" as can be heard on this version.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

if i found this i'd spend about 24 hrs straight with my demo copy of wave editor and some headphones and get it all perfect.

Hasn't anyone tried to do this with the Japanese bootleg yet?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"all perfect" would certainly help. As it is, I just want to listen to the finished album again. Maybe I would feel differently if I had spent 130 large on it.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

the current high bidder recently bought "10 Coupons FREE Hollywood Video Rental w/u/ rent 1 LOOK"

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, the sound on those mp3s from Stan M's link are really good. A couple of tracks are almost crackle-free!

If that's a mono mix, surely 'crackle remove' would just be a matter of removing sound sources that are purely on one or other channel but not both.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The current high bidder ($146K) - another (or is it the same?) coin collector: http://myworld.ebay.com/petsalad/

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention some gnarly Spiderman temporary tatoos.

― mehlt (mehlt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

End time: 12 hours 27 mins ( Dec-08-06 20:27:23 PST)

place your bets

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Current high bidder is currently selling:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200053059428

http://i3.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/7b/55/da8a_1.JPG

I have had many requests for this piece in a 69'. So, I finally found one. This 69 will make a great gift for you and your lover to curl up to. One might even bend over backwards for a good 69' like this one. Give the gift of 69 this year. Photo represents actual coin winner will receive. Thanks for looking.

― sean gramophone (sean gramophone), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

So I gave this a good once-through on the train this morning, and kinda got caught up in VU FEVER. There was something positively delightful about hearing a version of Heroin I'd never heard, especially knowing where it came from.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

petsalad, skisumo, oddditty83, mtoy1, bignastase

Dear people with $150k to blow,

I always imagined you guys would have cooler nicknames.

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost) Me, too! I've been all about the different mix of "Run,Run,Run". The drums on that are mixed louder, it seems, and just give it this real dirty push.

― Jay Vee (Jay Vee), Friday, 8 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

so the fakers pushed it up past 2 million. Current high-bidder had no negative comments. Will be sure to get one now. Seriously, are their more serious punishments for doing this? At least losing your account.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Only one guy found a velvet underground acetate for 75 cents, but everyone who did. . .

― arthritic hand golden fist (RSLaRue), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

it's still only listed at 155? two million? when was that?

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Current high bidder recently bought himself a pair of corduroy pants for 50 cents ~~and Fiddy said he aint wearing that shit~~.

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

You might also like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NICK-DRAKE-Elton-John-WARLOCK-SAMPLER-RARE-1970-UK-LP_W0QQitemZ300055912528QQihZ020QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300055912528

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know why, but my prediction is it sells for $297,000.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Half an hour.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my god, the calm before the storm. You could hear a pin drop. This is about as exciting to me as watching a football game must be to some people.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Should've had an ILX sweepstake.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, this has already been leaked (sorry didn't read the thread to see if someone already posted about that). i don't get how that coulda happened

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

extra-sensory perception

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I recognise a few of those names that have had their bids cancelled.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Winning bid: US $155,401.00

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Winning bidder: mechadaddy( 68 http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/icon/iconBlueStar_25x25.gif)

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

no recent feedback =(

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Surprised at lack of last minute duking-it-out.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That's it then?! $155,4-Oh-One? We're done? Girls just want to have fun? On the run? With a nun? I cry foul. NOT a real ebay auction. Watch the guy tell his wife, etc.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link

This is about as exciting to me as watching a football game must be to some people.

haha OTM indeed. Guys in the office talk about the bears. I come in today talking about the VU record. They think I'm really, really weird.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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