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

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

http://tastetastetaste.blogspot.com/

What academic use is there for this? Seriously, spending $10 billion on big science pork grants is more useful. The only thing you can learn from a record like this is like "Lou Reed changed something OMG!@!!!" Furthermore, there even fucking exists a bootleg of this!!!

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

I'm totally attacking you!!! But you're the one who thinks it is a good idea for some money starved institution in the public interest to waste its money on a meaningless piece of acetate.

Indie rocker, go home.

i wrote my senior thesis on tony conrad, and there was a lot of stuff (obv.) about the velvet underground in it. i got an a, my project advisor said that i did "original and important" work about the fusing of avant-garde art music to that of pop music, and how that changed the culture of each.

not much. for an institution like the warhol museum, though, it'd be about having the physical object as part of the collection, not necessarily for "study."

if it were in your hands, would YOU make a copy just for yourself before selling it?

and i'd surmise that the japanese bootleg is from a reel to reel, from a source very close to the original acetate, who only released it after the multiple hoo-hah about the acetate had reached a boiling point, to make a little $. just my guess though.

After establishing the authenticity of Warren's find we photographed the item and made a high quality digital back-up copy of the material.

LOL. Hstencil's thesis is actually worth reading, IMHO.

Then the boot's probably the same source - there's a skip at 35 seconds into "European Son" just like the auction describes. Interestingly, there is no skip in "Waiting For The Man" (at 00:10), which differs from the eBay desription.

Doesn't sound so bad to me! I could easily write an essay on the many specific differences - the backing vocals in "Femme Fatale" are mixed way higher, for example.

offtopic but that sound gallery compilation is pretty cool. just in case anyone was wondering.

That's not a bad way to put it, actually.