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     Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 491 Registered: 08-2004 |
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Go-Betweens-Go-Bet weens-Gobs-THE-ULTIMATE-RARITY_W0QQitemZ 290056449811QQihZ019QQcategoryZ43731QQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem There's a tempting buy it now price. | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2006 |
dear God - someone with more money than me, please buy this and encode the tracks as MP3s!!!!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 341 Registered: 04-2006 |
ends on st.nicholas day. that would be a nice gift. should ask my wife... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 967 Registered: 04-2005 |
Such a bargain! With my luck, if I bought it, the tape would break the first time I tried to listen to it. I guess the point is, you don't listen to it--you buy it and then protect it. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 187 Registered: 02-2005 |
It is the ultimate rarity on Planet G-B. I believe all the songs have been released and the ones that were unique to this cassette - 'Undo What You Did' and 'Cracked Wheat' - appear on the reissue of 'Send Me A Lullaby.' The other three - 'Heaven Says,' 'People Know' and 'Throw It Away' - were released in different (later) recordings. I think the title of that last song is different, but I can't remember... maybe that one is unreleased. Anyway, I have a bootleg CD set called "Early Go-Betweens" that includes the cassette. Unfortunately you can hear the tape drifting off-track after the intro to the first song and things go a bit muffled... as they remain for the duration. The recordings are fun to hear, very raw. The '5 New Songs' cassette most definitely should have been included in its entirety on the reissues. But it wasn't. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1028 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love old tapes. Don't they just sit there and wind you up!!? They know they are a potentially volatile means of archiving music amongst other things, they are kinda like a mobile phone, they know they are cute, everyone wants one, everyone used to have one etc, they know that people cherish them, as they are now fast becoming obselete, they had 2 sides, bi polar too, one side plays alright the other side has a kink running through it!, they were more than often not housed in the case they came in when you bought it, so when they lie naked on your car passenger seat waiting to be inserted (ooh er!) into the car tape player they felt vulnerable, scattered amongst their other not-so pretty friends, y'know, TDK, Sony, I'm talking of the later partly see through plastic varity, although we all loved the light battleship grey of the old TDK. They got us throough wars??, erm, school, University, erm marriages, divorces, deaths, you name it, our wee friends the audio cassette, who'd of thought we'd of carried on our lives without them!? ahhh, the good old days of the old c30, c60 c90, now go, in a every sense of the word! PS They even had a pressure pad didn't thy? made of sponge, God, its bringing tears to the eyes, (sniff)  | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 172 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yea Spence and it was always the sponge pad that was the bit that wouldn't quite fit back in after you had taken the cassette apart. Because it had got chewed up in the player! I chucked out a couple of hundred cassettes last time I moved, but I still have at least that number again: I have transferred some stuff to the PC, but very rarely come across tapes that are completely unusable, even if it has been 15 years since they were last listened to. I have children that are completely bemused by the fact that vinyl and cassettes have two sides and you can turn them over. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 226 Registered: 11-2004 |
I have a tape of this, I really should do a digital transfer. But yes, it's a pity the songs weren't all tacked onto the 2nd SMAL disc. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 230 Registered: 11-2004 |
As a potential caveat for anyone looking to buy this (at such an exalted price), the packaging of the cassette seems to lack the A4 sheet that came with it. The sheet features Melbourne tour dates and details on how to join the Go-Betweens appreciation society. I figure if someone here's going to meet the reserve, then they'd best know more about what they're paying. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 494 Registered: 08-2004 |
I don't like the way some people stick things on ebay hoping to take advantage of someone rich or stupid, or both. At £399 it's got to be one of the rarest, most sought after cassette's of all time. If you don't want it anymore, put it up for 50p. Then wE'll have an idea how much it's really worth. Strange too, it's priced in GBP. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Actually I was thinking that Jerry, I mean I love The GoBees, but no way would I fork out this amount of cash for a tape, nless it was made of gold and featured the voice of Jesus. Now if we can get someone to put Falling and Laughing on ebay for 10p... | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 29 Registered: 09-2006 |
I usually post things known to everyone but me - but maybe some of you haven't heard about this either: "THE MYSTERY OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S "REAL FIRST RECORD" (AND HOW THE ONLY EXISTING COPY WAS BOUGHT FOR 75 CENTS) In September of 2002 Warren Hill of Montreal Canada was perusing a box of records at a Chelsea, New York street sale when he happened upon a nice Leadbelly 10" on Folkways, a water damaged copy of the first Modern Lovers LP on Beserkely, and a brittle 12" piece of acetone-covered aluminum with the words "Velvet Underground. 4-25-66. Att N. Dolph" written on the label. He purchased the three records for 75 cents each." The whole story at ebay, where - at the moment - it's up to US $124,300.00 - though it's obviously not made of gold and Jesus sings in a very low voice in the background... Has anybody ever seen the earliest demo of Lee Remick (then called: Louise Brooks) on shellac - once the rumor runs there will be a box of records somewhere... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1254 Registered: 03-2006 |
Stuff is, of course, worth what someone will pay for it. And, of course I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt anyone's gonna pay that guy's "buy it now" price, or anything close to it. It really seems absurd and exploitative. I guess if you could really afford that, you don't have to care about money | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 176 Registered: 04-2005 |
It's not quite on the same scale as the Velvets story, but once when I was unemployed I came across a Beatles Xmas flexi in perfect nick in a charity shop for 10p. Moral dilemma time, but I was broke so said nothing, bought it for the 10p and flogged it for 30 quid. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 231 Registered: 11-2004 |
With three hours to go, it's currently standing at GBP 255.00 (Approximately AU $639.21) RESERVE NOT MET. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 497 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sold for £399.99. The seller was quite right. Despite being incomplete, as Donat says. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 178 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow, $785 US dollars. For a cassette tape. That's a lot of bones. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1070 Registered: 05-2005 |
I hope his/hers tapedeck heads are clean!!!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1286 Registered: 03-2006 |
Here's a fun thought: anybody who's a big enough fan to lay out that kind of cheese, almost has to also be a big enough fan to participate on this board. The new proud owner is probably among us...so who is it? ...Spence? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1043 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think it was Robert Forster, flush with money because of his writing success and the deal for the GoBs catalog made earlier this year. He wants to keep "5 Songs" out of our hands! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 503 Registered: 08-2004 |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld & if he gets hold of 16LL Acoustic Demos we're doomed. It could have gone even higher if auctioned. So, what price did the VU acetate finish at. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1287 Registered: 03-2006 |
Blofeld is no doubt listening to it now, as we speak, stroking that white kitty! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 182 Registered: 08-2006 |
With a little less than four hours to go, the VU acetate is at $155,601. Just a guess, but it's likely the bidder on THAT item is not among us, Lou Reed lovers though many of us are. Not to make assumptions about anyone's earning power, of course... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 828 Registered: 03-2005 |
Or perhaps about our sanity. Remember how crappy acetates are. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1045 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy's right. I assume everyone who's interested in hearing them has found MP3s of the acetate online (thanks for the link, LK). It's scratch and vinyl hiss city. A lot of the takes aren't that different, and the ones that are different are fairly inferior. I assume the bidder either is an obsessed collector with way too much money or really thinks it'll appreciate. At that price, I kind of doubt it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1075 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes its me, just playing it now, oh shit the tape player has jammed!!! No,its not only joking. Before ebay, this thing would really only of sold to a collector (if one could be found!). Stuff half the price and less would be bought by someone in the trade of selling records. I don't think by the sounds of it that Robert F has a computer, maybe his son does? It is a lad Robert has is it not? |