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(Idolator) Cool Punk/Rock auction at Christie's fetched $10,625 for Layne Staley's "Mad Season" artwork while a guitar signed by Journey was almost given away. Unsurprisingly, the biggest money-maker turned out to be John Lennon's organ   (idolator.com) divider line 19
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Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-11-25 11:17:38 PM  
Stuff You Can't Afford - and aren't pathetic enough to waste money on - Sold To People Richer - and dumber - Than You

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 12:14:59 AM  
a guitar autographed by "journey' fetches only $250 ? bwahahaahahahahhhhhh

damn, what kind of guitar was it? you know those sig can be buffed right out, right? or put a good band's stickers over them, i dunno

 
brap [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 01:17:55 AM  
Though I certainly have/will never forget it, I believe I have underbid on "the chaos"

 
onecanshort [TotalFark] 2008-11-26 04:27:30 AM  
That album by Mad Season is phenomenal, a friend has it on double vinyl, yet it's only long enough to cover 3 sides, so on the B side of the second disc, they just scratched Mad Season into it, looks pretty sweet. 10 large for the cover art though? No thanks.

 
The Dynamite Monkey 2008-11-26 07:32:03 AM  
christies.com

 
amindtat 2008-11-26 08:50:51 AM  
upload.wikimedia.org

 
Timdesuyo 2008-11-26 09:34:18 AM  
FT Headline ~ Unsurprisingly, the biggest money-maker turned out to be John Lennon's organ

/Happiness is a warm gun.
//Think it's still warm after all these years?
///Happiness is a worm gun?

 
Donald_McRonald 2008-11-26 09:47:03 AM  
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The positioning of those hands looks...oddly familiar.

 
siva 2008-11-26 11:59:01 AM  
It looks like a Mexican Strat, in which case it was sold for less than it is worth new. If its a squire than it gained about $100 value from Journey's signature.

 
habib486 2008-11-26 11:59:13 AM  
onecanshort: That album by Mad Season is phenomenal, a friend has it on double vinyl, yet it's only long enough to cover 3 sides, so on the B side of the second disc, they just scratched Mad Season into it, looks pretty sweet. 10 large for the cover art though? No thanks.

The Sap/Jar of Flies I own on vinyl is the same, with "Alice in Chains" scratched onto one side.

 
puckhead 2008-11-26 01:27:30 PM  
onecanshort: That album by Mad Season is phenomenal

Agree. one of my desert island disks for sure.
and yeah, $250 for a Fender Strat is a pretty sweet deal.

 
puckhead 2008-11-26 01:29:19 PM  
*lol* Dweezil's Fender Squire went for $125 (pops)

 
zappawizard 2008-11-26 02:18:14 PM  
Looking through the auction lots, the majority of lots sold well below the estimates, some embarrassingly low. I guess this was a bad time economically speaking to have this auction. I was suprised not to see any Kiss items in there, there are plenty of nerds guys buying that crap, I'm wondering when I should unload my collection?


But yeah, Journey (insert your favorite band here) sucks, har har.

 
adrienne barbeaubot 2008-11-26 03:14:25 PM  
I made my own painting of that in high school with the opaque projector. I'd forgotten about that.

 
foe2minutes 2008-11-26 03:19:04 PM  
puckhead: onecanshort: That album by Mad Season is phenomenal

Agree. one of my desert island disks for sure.
and yeah, $250 for a Fender Strat is a pretty sweet deal.


Huh. I'd take any proper AiC album over Mad Season in a heartbeat. "Wake Up" is pretty much the only song that I still enjoy.

 
samperkinsdog 2008-11-26 05:23:13 PM  
meh, i've seen lennon's organ on the "two virgins" album cover, it wasn't nothin' special.

especially after all these years... nowawdays i'd bet that it looks like a vanilla bean.

 
Kanemano 2008-11-26 05:50:34 PM  
I would kill each and every one of y'all for the Jimi Hendrix reel to reels.

OK, maybe not kill, how about infect with my cold

 
Great_Milenko 2008-11-26 06:56:17 PM  
Maybe signed by "Journey", really means signed by "the hack who pretends to be Steve Perry that no one cares about".

 
graphitesmoothie 2008-11-26 11:08:20 PM  
Which one of John Lennon's organs? I want his heart.

 
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