New Velvet Underground: $2,500 a minute

[Nietzsche]

What do you make of
  this ebay item?
 
 Seems rather dubious to me, but I hope these versions get released at some point.

[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.

[BlackTerror]

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.

[BookerT]

here's a yousendit link if anyone wants to take a listen.
 
  clicky

[nkotb]

Ooh, thanks!
 
 

Originally posted by BookerT:
  here's a yousendit link if anyone wants to take a listen.
 
  clicky

[thirsty moore]

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.

[Sir HC]

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?

[azaghal1981]

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?

[anarchist]

i thought this was only 3 tracks.  i cleaned up the clicks and pops last yr using cool edit pro 2.

[Jaguar]

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.

[beetsnotbeats]

Were you outbid? You're in luck!
 
  False $155K bid prompts re-auction of rare record
 
 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.