Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To
This has got to be a joke. I’d pay good money not to own this thing. It’s not even the Dead, it’s The Dead. This is an object with negative value: it costs you money to own or display, and you’d have to pay some one to take it away. A Greek god would give you this banner as a present to teach you a lesson.
Either call UC Santa Cruz, or throw it away, man.
“Along with four other band members.”
I used to be a collector: I liked comics, and later on, action figures based on said comics, but it’s been almost a decade since I bought one of either. I have lost the acquisition gene somehow, at least with anything tangible. Sure, I have two hard drives full of Dead shows, but that’s not a collection. I didn’t hunt anything down, and it cost me nothing, and could be replaced in whole: a collection is based upon scarcity–only so many was made of this car, watch, spoon, whatever–but Dead shows are a post-scarcity commodity. You can have as many as you want, and they’ll never run out of copies.
Collections are also based in fungibility, or lack thereof. A piece of art is singular and unreproducable; that’s almost the point. If one of the hard drives I mentioned conked out, well, they were just copies. The Vault is a collection: they’re not making anymore master tapes, but everything else is ephemeral.
And I get that there are CD collectors and Dead Completists; but, $4,000?
Stop working yourself into a lather over Ebay.
It makes no sense. If you’re gonna buy these CDs, then clearly you’re a Real Deadhead®. If you’re a Real Deadhead®, then you must read this site.
Sound logic.
So, you know: give me two grand, and I’ll burn the discs for you.
Are you trolling Ebay sellers by lowballing them?
Little bit.
I’m okay with it.
Okay, someone answer me a question; it’s a simple one.
Guy’s asking $13 grand for these. Each is one ounce* of .999 gold, which is trading at $1,217 as I write this. Couldn’t you just buy two ounces of gold and get a guy to engrave them? How much can engraving be? Thousand, tops. You got two gold coins with Dead bullshit on them for just over three grand.
Here’s the back:
There you go. The real ones come with a Certificate of Authenticity, but if you throw me a couple hundred bucks, I’ll write one up for you.
You’re welcome.
Also: by saving all that money, you’ll have the $8,000** to buy these:
Those are ear monitors. Guess whose they are. Guess. I dare you to guess.
*Not a real ounce, a troy ounce, which is less. If you bought an ounce of pot and got a troy ounce, you would be pissed. You would feel downright cheated if you received an avoirdupois ounce.
**Plus $2.45 shipping. HE’S ASKING FOR EIGHT GRAND AND WON’T EAT THE SHIPPING. This is officially my new favorite thing on the innertubes.
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