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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Nietzsche on December 05, 2006, 09:27:00 pm

Title: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: Nietzsche on December 05, 2006, 09:27:00 pm
What do you make of
  this ebay item? (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=300054910309&rd=1&rd=1)
 
 Seems rather dubious to me, but I hope these versions get released at some point.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: vassego on December 05, 2006, 11:24:00 pm
I read someone on the webternet that this dude made a digital copy.  However, I doubt that will get released.  It would be great to hear this though.  I still kind of think he's a dick for not donating it to some form of museum, but Hell, $126,000, as of this post, is nice cash.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: BlackTerror on December 06, 2006, 05:05:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by vassego:
  I read someone on the webternet that this dude made a digital copy.  However, I doubt that will get released.  It would be great to hear this though.  I still kind of think he's a dick for not donating it to some form of museum, but Hell, $126,000, as of this post, is nice cash.
My swedish friend said he was listening to it yesterday. I guess it's already on filesharing networks.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: BookerT on December 06, 2006, 05:23:00 pm
here's a yousendit link if anyone wants to take a listen.
 
  clicky (http://www.yousendit.com/download/RTQzOgucBId5TA%3D%3D)
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: nkotb on December 06, 2006, 05:31:00 pm
Ooh, thanks!
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by BookerT:
  here's a yousendit link if anyone wants to take a listen.
 
  clicky (http://www.yousendit.com/download/RTQzOgucBId5TA%3D%3D)
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: thirsty moore on December 06, 2006, 05:39:00 pm
The only songs that I thought sounded that different were Waiting For the Man and Heroin.  The surface noise is too much for me.  I'll stick with the VU & Nico for now.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: Sir HC on December 06, 2006, 06:16:00 pm
I wonder if they augmented the surface noise for that recording much like when they put logos across a picture so that the value of the original is still there.
 
 100k is possible if you are going to resell it, even then 100,000 VU fans?
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 06, 2006, 06:41:00 pm
There's something in the description about a less than listenable japanese bootleg being made years ago... Could the digital copy be from that source?
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: anarchist on December 06, 2006, 08:58:00 pm
i thought this was only 3 tracks.  i cleaned up the clicks and pops last yr using cool edit pro 2.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: Jaguar on December 07, 2006, 07:26:00 pm
Personally, I think the ideal place for this would be in the Andy Warhol Museum within a room of his 60s Pop prints and VU music playing. After all, what's the disc alone in a museum without actually hearing anything?
 
 I've never been there but it would be cool also to have a coffee bar near the cafeteria with aluminum foiled walls, couches like the one from the Factory, Warhol posters in a few strategic places and a few beaded curtains in doorways and windows and alcoves. Also, play VU music along with other Warhol era appropriate fare.
Title: Re: New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute
Post by: beetsnotbeats on December 14, 2006, 01:37:00 pm
Were you outbid? You're in luck!
 
  False $155K bid prompts re-auction of rare record (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/14/vintagevelvet.ap/index.html)
 
 NEW YORK (AP) -- The cyberspace saga of The Velvet Underground's 40-year-old first recording was to continue after fetching a false eBay bid of more than $155,000.
 
 The vintage Velvet was to be auctioned online again starting Thursday afternoon. The original bid bit the dust earlier this month when a young man in California e-mailed the seller and confessed he doesn't have enough money to buy the rare recording.
 
 "Seriously, I can barely afford gas for my car to get to work," reads part of the message the seller says he got via eBay.

 
 Now I wish I hadn't dropped $75 at Tower yesterday.   :D