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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Garcin on 16 Nov 2005, 09:50
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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?)
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"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.
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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.
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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?
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(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?)
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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That guy must be loving Pitchfork for pushing the price up.
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First of all: How on earth does he come up with the 1/20 figure? I'm just asking here.
Also, the last picture of the record, along with the guitar, the Jim Beam and the pills just makes me want to cry.
I think somebody here needs some drug money real bad.
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See, the indiest thing there is is to decry indie cred, so selling the gold record is like this guy's coup de grace, becoming "too indie for indie." But the great part is, really he's just selling some crap that he ripped off of his old work, and he's going to use that money to start his own business. And he's an indie publicist so this is basically a terrific move on his part, in a business sense... except that he's trying to trick the most cynical and jaded scene around, and most of the indie kids are seeing through it.
Indie cred is hilarious.
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God I hate how people talk about indie. Even when people are making fun of it. Both are OLD, let it GO.
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I want that record.
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Well, it looks now like it isn't just a publicity stunt. He lowered the reserve to the highest bid so as of this post the next bid will meet the reserve. Sheck it out.
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