Peateargriffin Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 On 4/24/2017 at 5:11 PM, unknown pleasures said: No way he can afford a computer. This honestly made me laugh. Good job and thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranch Cat Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 8 hours ago, mmhmm said: My bad- I must've misread something...weird how that happens. You get something in your brain and it sticks. I could've sworn I read that it was a one of a kind vinyl record. I saw the CD and was very confused. mmhmm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamubro Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) 23 hours ago, fitterhappier said: http://www.ebay.com/itm/132319745117?afsrc=1&rmvSB=true I checked yesterday and this was bid up to around $200,000. Now with 8 days left it has 313 bids and is over $1,000,000. This has to be one of you trolling this guy...right? Edited September 7, 2017 by Tamubro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 I was thinking this morning, is there a way to setup a paypal account under a false name using an amex pre-paid card. Cause if there is, I will do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown pleasures Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 11 hours ago, Ranch Cat said: I could've sworn I read that it was a one of a kind vinyl record. I saw the CD and was very confused. I think you're confusing it with the OST for Sinbad's genie movie, which was 100% vinyl only. natenomm, DecayToDeath, THE_James_Champ and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 44 minutes ago, unknown pleasures said: I think you're confusing it with the OST for Sinbad's genie movie, which was 100% vinyl only. You mean Shazaam? ethereal and THE_James_Champ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethereal Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 1 hour ago, unknown pleasures said: I think you're confusing it with the OST for Sinbad's genie movie, which was 100% vinyl only. inb4 mandela effect theorists THE_James_Champ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocity of Sound Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 18 hours ago, dutchflowers said: fwiw.. I also thought it was a vinyl record and not a CD. It must have been mentioned that way somewhere way back but whatever. Insane situation either way. I hope a Nigerian Prince wins the auction. I also was 100% under the impression it was a LP. He probably rip it. His discription is very vague. No wonder he's willing to pay $25,000 for legal fees. He's all ready for a lawsuit. I cant imagine he's honestly expecting a smooth transaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxpxer311 Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wu-tang-clan-selling-one-copy-of-secret-double-lp-20140326 Velocity of Sound 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 You have to remember that music fans outside of the vinyl community use the word LP with a broader definition. Probably where the confusion is. jerseypride 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floyd_z Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) Didn't he pay $2,000,000 for this? Also, if one were to buy the album aren't they the sole owner of all the rights to the music? Someone could just buy it and press it and make their money back easily Edited September 7, 2017 by floyd_z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethereal Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 7 minutes ago, floyd_z said: Didn't he pay $2,000,000 for this? Also, if one were to buy the album aren't they the sole owner of all the rights to the music? Someone could just buy it and press it and make their money back easily he was supposed to do this but never did it, and yes, that is the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyl addict Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 They are gonna tour the album to museums and shit? That music will most certainly be online within a few weeks. I know it mentions you can only listen through earphones, but who is in charge of it 24/7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stl_ben Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 2 minutes ago, vinyl addict said: They are gonna tour the album to museums and shit? That music will most certainly be online within a few weeks. I know it mentions you can only listen through earphones, but who is in charge of it 24/7? Will it? It came out 3 years ago and no leaks yet.... psus2h and vinyl addict 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyl addict Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) 5 hours ago, stl_ben said: Will it? It came out 3 years ago and no leaks yet.... As far as I know, it's been locked up somewhere. It certainly hasn't had a US tour where people can listen to it on headphones. Anyway, to answer your question... Yes Edited September 8, 2017 by vinyl addict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 3 hours ago, floyd_z said: Didn't he pay $2,000,000 for this? Also, if one were to buy the album aren't they the sole owner of all the rights to the music? Someone could just buy it and press it and make their money back easily " A legal agreement with the purchaser states it cannot be commercially exploited until 2103, although it can be released for free or played during listening parties." floyd_z and Velocity of Sound 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridley Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 (edited) On 7/27/2017 at 9:39 AM, bridley said: Because sometimes we need some happy Ebay craziness to remind us that deals exist when you look frequently enough: $24 BIN and free shipping. So this worked out pretty well. Sleeve and vinyl were a bit grimey, but played remarkably well other than a little click for a few rotations on side b. Also, in the same spirit of my initial message, I seem to have a knack for landing 2003 Vagrant emo at good deals: In Reverie, $20 BIN, $4 shipping. Hopefully condition is as good as described. Deals exist if you're a deadbeat and can check ebay frequently. Edited September 11, 2017 by bridley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorrisNuts Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 2 hours ago, bridley said: Also, in the same spirit of my initial message, I seem to have a knack for landing 2003 Vagrant emo at good deals: In Reverie, $20 BIN, $4 shipping. Hopefully condition is as good as described. Deals exist if you're a deadbeat and can check ebay frequently. This is such a good deal Eric_Matthews 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawhizz Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Time is running out y'all. https://www.ebay.com/i/182542559502 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseypride Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Not Ebay, but I'm gonna leave this here. Pretty crazy background story on this: https://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/prince-sealed-1987-original-black-album-lp/ Prince – Factory Sealed 1987 U.S. “Black Album” LP – One Of The Rarest Records In The World NOTE: THIS IS BEING SOLD ON CONSIGNMENT AND IS NOT PART OF OUR SALE. SORRY, BUT NO DISCOUNT IS APPLICABLE. Recordmecca is proud to offer what is surely one of the rarest vinyl albums in the world—a factory-sealed 1987 U.S. pressing of Prince’s legendary The Black Album. Scheduled for release by Warner Bros. Records on December 8, 1987, Prince cancelled The Black Album one week before its release date, and at his direction more than 500,000 copies were destroyed, on cd, cassette and LP. Our research can find only three other U.S. copies of the 1987 LP to have surfaced in the 30 years since The Black Album was pulled; two sold nearly 25 years ago, and a third was sold by us in 2015. The Story of The Black Album Prince desire to rush release an album in December 1987 aroused much controversy at his label, Warner Bros. Records. Traditionally labels didn’t release records in December, when it was near impossible to get attention for a new release. Additionally, Prince wanted it to be a surprise release, with no advertising, marketing, or even a single released to let people know he had a new album coming. But most controversial was Prince’s insistence that his name be found nowhere on the album, and his refusal to give the record a title. And he wanted to release his album an all black album cover, with no writing. At the time, there was no precedent for a surprise release by a major artist, nor one without an artist’s name or a title on the cover. While this gave the company great pause, Prince had major clout as a superstar artist, and so the album (which didn’t have an official title, but was dubbed The Black Albumbecause of its all black cover) was added to the release schedule. It was explained to Prince that the album at the very least needed to have the catalog number on it, so he agreed to have that alone printed on the cover—just 1-25677 printed in orange ink on the spine. Warner’s further explained the album absolutely needed a bar code and a parental advisory warning, or retailers wouldn’t stock it. As a compromise, two stickers were added over the shrink wrap–an “Explicit Lyrics/Parental Advisory” sticker on the front and a bar code sticker with copyright information on the back cover. And that was it. Because this was a highly unusual, essentially secret release, and Warner Bros. was concerned about leaks to radio, security was kept very tight at the pressing plants, which manufactured approximately 500,000 copies, split between cd’s, cassettes, and vinyl LP’s. And then, a week before it went on sale, Prince changed his mind. According to Wikipedia The album was abandoned shortly before its intended release after Prince experienced a spiritual epiphany and became convinced it was “evil”; he later blamed the album on an entity named Spooky Electric, described as a demonic, low-voiced alter-ego induced by Camille. The decision may have been influenced by Prince’s having a bad experience on MDMA. Half a million copies had been manufactured in the United States, and more internationally. But Prince was insistent—The Black Album could not come out, under any circumstances. What followed was one of the great about-faces in music industry history. All copies of The Black Album were recalled, around the world. One executive remembers a senior vice president going from office to office in the Warner Bros. Burbank headquarters, collecting the few advance cd’s that had been circulated. The head of production personally called all the manufacturing plants, insisting that every single copy be secured, and destroyed. Fortunately the albums had not yet shipped from the manufacturing plants to the distribution branches, which made the job a lot easier. One executive involved called it “an I told you so moment…stupid from the beginning”. As Prince had called it off, he paid for the destroyed albums, likely as a charge against his royalties. Wikipedia notes: Immediately after the decision to pull The Black Album from stores, the album emerged on the streets in bootleg form, arguably becoming popular music’s most legendary bootleg since The Beach Boys’ aborted 1967 album Smile. Several celebrities, including U2’s frontmen The Edge and Bono cited it as one of their favorite albums of 1988 (Rolling Stone magazine celebrity poll). In the ensuing years, a handful of original CD copies surfaced, selling for up to $10,000. A few original German vinyl pressings have also surfaced, but most that have been sold have been very convincing counterfeit copies. A copy of a two-disc promotional U.S. version reportedly sold on Discogs in 2016 for $15,000. But the original U.S. commercial LP offered here is quite likely the rarest, and most sought after vinyl record in the world. A Remarkable Discovery This example is one of five sealed copies discovered in December 2017, in the collection of a former Warner Bros. Records executive who worked on The Black Album. The executive’s daughter had purchased her first turntable and asked her parents to send her some albums. Their record collection had been boxed up in a closet for more than 25 years, and while searching for records that might interest their daughter, they stumbled upon two never-opened Warner Bros. Records mailers. Expecting to find some promo albums inside, they opened these for the first time and discovered five perfect, sealed copies of The Black Album. These had been sent to the executive in December 1987 when the albums were ordered destroyed, and for 30 years, the two mailers had sat unopened among their other boxed up vinyl. After opening one copy and confirming it was a genuine 1987 first pressing, they contacted Recordmecca owner Jeff Gold, a friend and former Warner Bros. colleague. For now, they have decided to sell three of the sealed copies, exclusively through Recordmecca. One copy has already sold; the second copy, listed here, is a perfect factory sealed example, with one of the original Warner Bros. mailers it was discovered in. (When we list the final copy, it will not include a mailer). The Details The cover is in Mint condition with fully intact shrink wrap with multiple breath holes, the “Explicit Lyrics/Parental Advisory” sticker on the front, and bar code/copyright sticker on the back. The all black cover has no printing other than the catalog number (1-25677) printed in orange on the spine. The photographs of the disc and pvc inner sleeve, and matrix numbers are from the opened copy, which is not for sale. Side 1 matrix: AL SP 1-25677-A SH 1 Q B-29645 SH-1 (delta sign) 18817 1-1 SPO-1. Side 2 matrix: AL SP 1-25677 B SH3 Q B-29646 SH3 Delta 18817 – X //SP01. The open copy has a very slight warp as do many Warner Bros. albums from the 1980’s, but it tracks and plays perfectly. The sealed copies all appear to be flat. The 1994 Release Prince finally agreed to let Warners release The Black Album as a strictly limited edition on cd and cassette only, available only from November 1994 through January 1995. It was released with a different catalog number, 1-45793, and wasn’t commercially released on vinyl. Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold was a senior vice president at Warner Bros. Records at the time, and oversaw the 1994 release, including very limited edition promotional-only colored vinyl copies. Gold worked closely with Prince, and art directed his album covers for Diamonds and Pearls, the Symbol album, and the compilations The Hits 1, The Hits 2, and The Hits/The B-Sides. Offered here, however, is the never issued 1987 black vinyl LP. Included is a letter of authenticity with Recordmecca’s written lifetime guarantee, signed by Jeff Gold, and a second letter of authenticity from the original owner, describing the discovery of this extraordinary artifact. Very likely your only chance to obtain this extraordinary collectible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natenomm Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 There's even a dang website devoted to this album and trying to find out who has what copies of it. http://www.the-black-album.info/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floyd_z Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 $15,000 sounds pretty reasonable considering how rare it it. I would throw it on ebay and probably start it around 15k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowty Dollaz Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 42 minutes ago, jerseypride said: Not Ebay, but I'm gonna leave this here. If it's not eBay it belongs in the Official Craziness Thread (non-eBay). Obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocity of Sound Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 King Gizzard craziness. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F162802314022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NapalmBrain Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 On 12/13/2017 at 5:54 PM, Velocity of Sound said: King Gizzard craziness. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F162802314022 thats a lot considering the liquid will most likely evaporate in the next couple years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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