810 bucks...that would of paid my rent and then some....


say dear mr. albini,
you got an extra one of them records laying around-- you wanna like give to me as a gift or anything do ya?
i love you,
alex

$810.


That is nothing but incredible.

If you do the math, that is 800 LPs with a net worth of $648,000.




It would just feel dirty to have someone else's record. And then not be able to pay rent and bills and eat for a month.

alexdamon wrote:…that would of paid my rent…

man, you southerners sure know how to fuck up some english.

Redline wrote:

when you get a gift, you're entitled to do whatever you like with it.

I disagree. Gifts should not be sold or given away. That's what my moms taught me, anyway.


Jay

I half agree. I don't think selling a gift is really right, but I do agree with the re-gift idea. I have done this quite a bit (family still doesn't have a clue who I am) and it works great. Less crap, less shopping.

The gift in question, though, is tricky - the record is entitled "Friends" to be given away to friends as a gesture. When a friend gives me something meaningful, I tend to keep it for quite some time. As long as I can, actually. Especially if that gift has "collector scum" status and I know that other people who are not particular friends of Shellac will be more than willing to pay for it. I mean, we're all dancing around the issue, but this is a rare Shellac recording, and what with all the other hoopla surrounding the bootleg question, can anyone be blamed for being nervous about this record's eventual fate?

$800+ for a record that can easily be duplicated and booted to thousands of rabid Shellac fans? That's pretty cheap, actually. In more ways than one...

If you give a gift to someone, you should give it with love, and give it away. I could care less about choosing and giving gifts, but once it goes to somone else it's up to them what to do with it. Otherwise it becomes a form of bondage to the giver.

And while I like Shellac hugely, I reckon if the material on The Futurist was any good, they would have released it to the public. No band, no matter how idiosyncratic or perverse, hides their best work by choice. Come on lads, admit it. It's rubbish, isn't it?

alexdamon wrote:
…that would of paid my rent…


man, you southerners sure know how to fuck up some english.

...?...

shoulda been "would have" or "would've"... "would of" isn't proper english. please don't move, whilst i notify her majesty the queen, etc.

he hadta been kidding, otherwise the sentence woulda been:
"Man, you southerners sure know how to fuck up some English". or something more like that. dang grammarians!

i'm guilty of gramar policing from time to time. it's a habit i picked up from the message board that i frequent most. i feel kind of hypocritical, writing in all lowercase, but that's more of just a laziness thing.

lol. you spelled grammar wrong, too. heh.

hey, if you can dish it out, you better be able to take it. i've also spelled it "grammer," recently. wait, should that comma come before or after the close parethesis? i'll go with before.