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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]

4:00 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
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