I am having a heart attack
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When the Talking Heads _Speaking in Tongues_ first came out, I went to the record store and was among the lucky few who bought a limited edition vinyl of the album that was designed by none other than "Robert Rauschenberg":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg.It was the prized album in my collection ... the vinyl itself was clear, and included several sheets of acetate upon which Rauschenberg's designs were printed ... I think one was blue, one was pink, and one was yellow. The sheets could be placed on the album in different layers to produce different colors and juxtapositions. The set snapped together inside a clear plastic container. 
As the story goes, fast forward five years, I am in art school and am a starving student. Totally broke ... I literally lived on Top Ramen for more than a year whilst going to school and making paltry earnings working at a retro-style soda fountain. And as one is inclined to do when one is young and penniless, I decided one day that I might get some extra cash by selling off some of my record collection. Not having any idea what any of it was worth, I stupidly took a large stack of albums to a record store on Colfax and sold off my wares. The clerk took my albums into a back room, evaluated them for a few minutes, and said he would take them all. He opened the register and handed me a pithy amount of cash (so little I can't even bear to tell you). All these years I've been upset with myself for having done so. There were a few albums in the stack that I desperately wish I still had. And the bad part, as you might surmise, is that the rare Talking Heads / Rauschenberg LP was included in with them.I haven't even wanted to know ... I've avoided the question all these years as to how much the album was worth. But after posting about "another collectible vinyl":http://mog.com/goodmusiconly/blog_post/118778 yesterday, then reading about Talking Heads on mog today, I decided to look it up. On E-Bay right now, there is a copy selling for $1000. My god, what have I done?Excuse me while I go hurl myself off a cliff.
As the story goes, fast forward five years, I am in art school and am a starving student. Totally broke ... I literally lived on Top Ramen for more than a year whilst going to school and making paltry earnings working at a retro-style soda fountain. And as one is inclined to do when one is young and penniless, I decided one day that I might get some extra cash by selling off some of my record collection. Not having any idea what any of it was worth, I stupidly took a large stack of albums to a record store on Colfax and sold off my wares. The clerk took my albums into a back room, evaluated them for a few minutes, and said he would take them all. He opened the register and handed me a pithy amount of cash (so little I can't even bear to tell you). All these years I've been upset with myself for having done so. There were a few albums in the stack that I desperately wish I still had. And the bad part, as you might surmise, is that the rare Talking Heads / Rauschenberg LP was included in with them.I haven't even wanted to know ... I've avoided the question all these years as to how much the album was worth. But after posting about "another collectible vinyl":http://mog.com/goodmusiconly/blog_post/118778 yesterday, then reading about Talking Heads on mog today, I decided to look it up. On E-Bay right now, there is a copy selling for $1000. My god, what have I done?Excuse me while I go hurl myself off a cliff.
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I feel your pain. I was surprised in the early days of CDs that the titles would always be available from mainstream artists but was blown away by how many discs that I had given to friends as gifts and then later try to purchase them only to discover that they were out of print! I feel your pain...