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

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3495078

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=4874863840

Personally, I would be. I'm surprised this wasn't done through some big auction house or something that vets bidders....

we're in six didgits now.

high bidder bought some home-gym and a violent femmes cd latley.

My understanding is that Eric and his friend *wanted* it to sell to a record label and give it a good home. As they early articles about the acetate surfaced and interest mounted, they shopped it to several labels and I think they were in last minute negotiations with one excellent reissue label, when that fell apart due to the sudden appearance of that crummy sounding Japanese bootleg. The idea being that the material had hit the marketplace and was then not something the hardcore fans would never have heard, even if in inferior quality.

Eric doesn't have a computer; he has to go to the co-op bike shop down the block and use theirs. I was in his shop yesterday and he was clearly really bummed out by the whole "eBay chicken" thing -- he is one of the raddest people and has immaculate cred. in the record buying/ selling community (not to mention his vinyl only record label is fucking ACES -- and as a caveat or whatever, we're doing an Anglin Bros. reissue together and getting started on a of Tony Schwartz collection). Dude is old school but not ridiculous about it; he never checks popsike or gemm before pricing his records, as far as I know.

Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm sure that no one would have guessedd this thing would get so out of hand. I think they thought this would be the most fair way to sell this thing, to just let the market decide or whatever. Eric's getting bombarded with hate mail over this thing and he can't figure why -- he's just helping his friend sell this record that the dude found, you know?

Now it's over a hundred thousand?! I guess it's more eBay chicken? Fucking bummer.

fair would have been to approach libraries / colleges / other cultural institutions, if selling it to a record label didnt pan out! at the very least, the record could be properly preserved, archived and made available to the public for educational purposes. right now, that's certainly not the case.

PS- I found a picture of Maria blogging about this record:

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TAAlAOYYLQvbAtgNJJ7b4xkfKZhq*6gx*i0cF7VzIvFkvnonz17!j1!NReyP2vGP!lz8gvfrUhsA!xKhDwLk3qVyM80Vs6IhGstLPf0!3jX68LiDuC6qoA/idolgrab.jpg

What makes this money any different?

Dude, what kind of argument is this? Oh wait, it's not -- it's just you attacking me for the hell of it.

Do you want music to be researchable or not? 'Cause if you don't, there's no sense in universities spending the money on research about grime, mashups, rave or anything else. I never said that VU's recordings were any more or less important -- those are your implications/hangups. I think it would be great if artifacts from those genres/etc were preserved similarly.

what i meant was: if you wanted any music available for academic / scholarly use. unfortunately, i was interrupted by a phone call.

if my university spent $10k on studying mp3 fucking mashup culture i would demand my tuition back. what the hell is wrong with you?

good thing you're not a yacht salesman. the guilt would be terrible :-/

also, wtf: What weirds me out is that instead of getting this record, the winner could finance someone going through a college, masters, and PhD program.

have you even been to college before??

US $105,600 and 75 cents was too much, was it?

So when is this going to stop? It can't be for real anymore, right?

legislating what other people 'should' do with stuff they are lucky enough to find, and to know what it is when they do, seems a tad crazy to me, and reeks to me of jealousy/ sour grapes.

sound quality issues aside, it's not like you can't hear these version if you want to, on the japanese bootleg.

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)

"the only one of its kind"

What's the story of that Japanese bootleg, by the way? I know there's a leaked recording out there, with lots of hiss and vinyl crackles, so is that from another copy of this "one of its kind" album?

it just seems weird that they wouldn't even grab the audio from the record first, in a mastering studio or whatever. and THEN sell it. would that be "illegal" maybe? i mean there's nothing stopping the weiner winner from using it as a coaster for his collection of rare german beer steins.

although, actually, I don't really care

Anyway, this reminded me that I had a great album with some cool covers cued up on spotify Count's Rock Band: Do Not Listen If You Hate Coltrane or Maggot Brain

doug yule's tide

i don't think there's anything else i once liked that looking back brings me more shame than that dave navarro album. ta be fair to me i was 16 and a slow developer. can't remember if i liked the venus in furs cover in particular, but i did think it was cool he was covering the vu.