You're inspiring me to hum some Tina Turner:
You're simply the best/
better than all the rest

Hopefully is some corporate label so it can be released, And it doesn't end up in some makeshift museum in Las Vegas.

There is the chance too that the high bidder is an investor, and not necessarily a fan. That's certainly the way Warren Hill promoted this and it's going to pay a big dividend. He held on to it for years and got some free PR behind it before he took it to auction...during the holiday shopping season, no less.

If this is the case, then the buyer is obviously counting on reselling it years later for even more. I don't think this is a wise investment at all. I can't see it actually increasing any more in value for a long, long, long...long time. They'd be better off buying some fine art. But maybe higher-end fine art is out of the buyer's price range.

Aw hell...

we're in the red zone now...
34 mins 43 secs

US $155,501.00


This is the most anyone has ever paid for an LP (in this case, an acetate LP), to be more precise.

here is a news article in the Associated press

Velvet Underground Article

Thanks for that link, static-harmony.

And the winning bid is...


....is....


...wait for it....


Fraudulent.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rtainment/home

Funny.

Wow...didn't totally see that one coming. :rolleyes:

Yeah, it sure was a shocker all right.

i was skeptical that the seller could be selling a "fake", they are becoming very common on eBay as eBay has gone through the trouble by posting links warning about those skeptical sellers of certain products who ship from multiple locations around the globe, those scam artists from 3rd world countries are sometimes the culprits... though from this link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rtainment/home
this seller seems legit. and of course its unsuprisinging that the bidder is a "fake" because it happens all the time on eBay...

Ha! Too freaking funny!

Isn't there a better way to sell these things? eBay seems, I don't know, almost too public, if you know what I mean. Isn't there a way to get this into the hands of a serious collector, or better, serious archivist (one who will preserve it for the public's benefit, help release it for masses, etc.) than going through the ticky-tacky online bid process?

You know the regular auctions can do exactly what ebay does. Also with the internet or the phone you can bid as well.

Would be nice if the seller just knew somebody in the business who'd buy it and take care of it.

All of Lou's master tapes from his solo LPs may have been destroyed in a fire. Thankfully it appears that the original analog tapes for Disco Mystic and Original Wrapper are stored in the National Archives next to the Constitution, which prtoects them from a nuclear bomb.

Arson? A music lover?

Who knows?Cale ha a lot to answer for.In the meantime,some eye candies: