so this Velvet acetate is on ebay
behemoth
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and its at 17k already with 8 days to gohttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...bayphotohosting
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buy it for display in Crink's pantry!
some smart record exec probably told his intern "get this record at any cost" and will then hold the mechanical publishing rights to the record and release it and make 3 times what he paid for the acetate.
or...at least that's what i'd do...
I belive that you are absolutely correct.....
No, but owning the cleanest surviving copy of the recording could
possibly allow you to have some kind of financial interest in a
reissue sanctioned by the rights holders of the material included within.
ie you could lease it to Warners. But as the person selling
the acetate points out, he has already made a "high quality
digital copy" of it, so who's to say who owns the "cleanest copy?"
I suppose it could be purchased as an investment, if you believed
it would appreciate signifigantly in value over, say, 10 years.
if those performances only exist in that form, and nearly 40 years have passed since they were registered with ASCAP, BMI, whoever, there is a chance that they werent' renewed in 25 years.
so the longer version of my post should have been, "...whoever would pay that much for the record would have lawyer smart enough to find that loophole to those performance rights and collect."
more shady things have been done in the past by people who have more money than they peoeple who are taking them to court (ie: 99 records vs sugar hill)
They tried unsuccessfully to sell the disc to record companies when the Moe Tucker copy turned up making it less important.
I think this will sell for between 25-30k. Rey get your weight up. 18k will not cut it.
LOL... I don't really find this surprising actually
you are too right. apparently as record collectors, bidding on records for sale is something that's frowned upon.
I think the behaviour in that thread pretty well speaks for itself...
that behaviour is f*kking funny though... best thing on the internuts today.
"i'm the king of hypothetical manning up"
It'll be interesting to see if the number of bids keeps dropping and if that changes the high bid.
Wow, you're pretty cool.
I give that avatar 8.5