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Why Is This Sealed, Longboxed Copy Of Living Colour’s “Vivid” Worth $1,025 (Plus Shipping)?

f717_1.JPG• Corey Glover’s cult of personality is that strong.
• This fan of the band is going to any length it can to avoid that “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?” cover that was tacked on to the reissue.
• Buyer is opening a store that’s a throwback to the late ’80s and is looking for every “realistic” detail he can find, down to the ecologically unfriendly longboxes that protected CDs from fingerprints.
• Lou Pearlman’s estate is doing everything it can to creatively “hide” its assets.
• A misplaced decimal point? A curious need for the color palette near the bottom of the album art? The longbox bubble is the new housing bubble? The mind reels.

Living Colour Vivid Sealed Longbox CD [eBay via Heavy Metal Addiction]

 
By Maura at 4:00 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
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  • Anonymous

    They were the Best New American Band, after all. ROlling Stone said so.

  • Captain Wrong

    Not shocked. I've lurked on a few message boards where something like this (a sealed longbox version of an un-remastered CD) would be seen as very desirable and worth throwing that kind of coin down for. As for the rest of the word, not so much.

  • Chris N.

    Holy crap, it sold!

  • Chris N.

    I'm an unabashed LC fan, but hoo boy.

  • NeverEnough

    They were great live but, my god...

  • Anonymous

    Corey Glover was the unannounced guest National Anthem singer a few years ago at a mid-season UConn basketball game I went to. It was pretty awesome, though baffling.

  • Chris Molanphy

    @tigerpop: LOL. FTW.

  • Catbirdseat

    For that amount, couldn't you buy all the equipment necessary to make an endless supply of exact replicas of this?


    Shit, man, I ain't no glamour boy, I'm FIERCE!

  • tigerpop

    It comes hand-delivered by Muzz Skillings?

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