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Garcin:
Pitchfork has an item about a former Sub Pop publicist having an eBay auction for the Give Up RIAA certified gold record commemorating sale of 500,000 copies of the album.  I checked out the eBay auction and the publicist's self-justificatory screed is so incredibly bizarre and self-serving, I thought it was worth a post to the forums.  Read with one eye, so that if said screed induces blindness, you have one eye left.

(And ponder this . . . if sale of a 500,000 sale RIAA certified award is the opposite of indie, and publicist-dude has given up on "indie cred", then in what nightmarish parallel universe does this make sense as a base for his new indie music publicist firm?)

lastclearchance:
"I did the math on it and figured out that I’m responsible for 24,871 copies sold. I’m gonna be fair here and say that Sub Pop makes 5 dollars per album sold and since I contributed about 1/20 of the work on this I am owed $6217.14 cents. This is reflected in my reserve."

No one is going to bid $6217.14 and therefore this is just free publicity.

Kid Modernist:
I don't know, it's already up to 1,200 now and it has four days left. It he was just doing it for free publicity I would laugh if someone actually one. Ouch.

sjbrot:
When I checked this out yesterday thanks to Brooklyn Vegan, it was at one hundred and some. When Pitchfork posted, it was at three hundred. After that, when I checked, it was at $1300 or something. That's crazy.

Question: Does the Spongebob Pictured on the sale come with the record? If so...

Well, that doesn't change shit. Who is bidding on this?

Rizzo:

--- Quote from: Moiche ---(And ponder this . . . if sale of a 500,000 sale RIAA certified award is the opposite of indie, and publicist-dude has given up on "indie cred", then in what nightmarish parallel universe does this make sense as a base for his new indie music publicist firm?)
--- End quote ---

Indie means independent. It doesn't mean non-selling. A band can be both popular and independent. I know some of you are going to argue that the definition has changed.
INDIE=Independent
All of George Lucas's films have been INDIE!!!!!

Meh, dumber things have been sold on Ebay.

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