Just thought I'd start this thread about the oddities that lurk on ebay

This as it's titled very rare supposed 1967 "Laughing Gnome" single c/w "The Gosple According to Tony Day" must be a fake in some way? take a look at the cover picture to the single, Is this the image of Bowie circa 1967? NO! It's from 1973 I would guess. item and just witness the price




Please feel free to expose any Bowie oddities you may find on ebay, ebay has many good sellers and Im not saying their all bad by any means, but this is an insult to any Bowie fans intelligence, what say you?



London Bye Ta-Ta...

Yes, and it was rereleased in 1973 and this is indeed a very rare cover released in Europe.

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

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Yes, and it was rereleased in 1973 and this is indeed a very rare cover released in Europe.

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Thanks for the backup Alan, Im not out to expose sellers but to make sure what they are selling is correctly advertized.

I mean as if Mr Bowie looked like this in 1967


London Bye Ta-Ta...

There has been deram sleeves with Bowie with curly hair, ziggy hair, as the gouster, thin white duke, lodger era and 1990 sound and vision. Decca have been making Bowie's 1960s work look contemporary for the last 30 years.

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

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Decca have been making Bowie's 1960s work look contemporary for the last 30 years.

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Just reading that has given me a ruddy good giggle, but it is just so true, I don't mind the varying covers to a point, It's just when they claim it's from a certain era\date and it is not.



London Bye Ta-Ta...

That is the very rare French rerelease of the Laughing Gnome from 1973, which is indeed worth quite a lot of money. It is a bit odd that the seller mentions it as 1967, as that seller seems to know what he is doing. We all make mistakes I guess.

this is very nice..



I haven't got a signature at the moment.

It seems like someone who has access to making these has got a few run off. I smell a fish!

Please check out my Bowie Bootleg Site...
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http://www.geocities.com/bowieondisc.html

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Yes of course we do, It's just that with something this valuable and such a big advert for it you'd think the dates would be correct, I guess what counts is that we know.

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It sure is Alan but what a lot of money!

Just look at the price of this? I really cannot see the price is justified


London Bye Ta-Ta...

I actually have a counterfeit colour RCA cover and it cost me £5 in 1987.

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

Well if that is genuine Ant it is a true rarity, it is not as stated the original cover of the album that became Let's Dance it was actually an album due to appear in 1986 I think, which would include remixes of tracks from Let's Dance and Tonight, and would be sequenced together. It never appeared and some Cover slicks are all that there is to remember another of Bowie's lost albums by. Sad that the seller couldn't get his facts correct though.

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

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I actually have a counterfeit colour RCA cover and it cost me £5 in 1987.

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You jammy devil

How about this FAB item Alan, I think I would give my eye teeth for this ( If I had any left ) It's a wonderful 7" single with a truly fantastic cover.



It's here If anyones rich enough, It's also one of those reserve not met items


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Im not this sad yet thank goodness



LOL!


London Bye Ta-Ta...

WHATEVER!!

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

IF anyone wants a good copy of The Buddha Of Suburbia CD album? then here on ebay now Buddha you can buy it in an instant sale for $30.00 equivalent to about £16.00 GPB which is half what I paid for mine.



This is quite an amazingly inxpensive price for such a rare CD.


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it was actually an album due to appear in 1986 I think, which would include remixes of tracks from Let's Dance and Tonight and would be sequenced together.

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So Club Bowie almost 20 years ahead of its time. It makes you wonder, though, how many remix albums were actually sanctioned by the artists and how many were successfully vetoed.

He's My Brother

WHAT!!! £16.00 for that. I got mine from Woolworths when it cam out and it was pretty cheap. Looks like I got a bargain there!

iccy

The Bowie Contingent
16th June 2005 @ The Grapes, Sheffield, UK
10th/11th June 2005 @ TW Meetup, London UK

We were the lucky one Icarusboy, it goes for a lot of money nowadays, especially the US edition. Did you get yours with the book in the plastic box?

I haven't got a signature at the moment.

Are you being serious? This album exchanges hands for 40 pounds odd usually. Sixteen pounds is cheap.

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"Hating Bowie in 1997 means hating everything overblown, theatrical, pretentious, pseudo-intellectual and jarringly progressive in the past 25 years of pop. In other words, everything great about pop. It also means hating yourself."

Just hunting through the pages of Playcom and found this...

Reality Tour Edtion

This really is taking the piss ( pardon my language ) out of us fans who paid much more for this CD album thinking it to be a limited item

Why not the next time Bowie's record company release's a new album we wait a while before we buy and get it for £5.99 or better still 3 Bowie albums for £15.00





London Bye Ta-Ta...

Can anyone please explain the significance of the neckties being over the left shoulders please?




London Bye Ta-Ta...

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Can anyone please explain the significance of the neckties being over the left shoulders please?

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Drugs.


"I'm simply not clicking on a link to foreskin.org. No, I'm not." - Emil

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Drugs.

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My goodness he started young!

Incidently I have managed to purchase both this photograph



And this one...



For the grand sum of $25.00 with shipping from a store in Canada and I am most proud


London Bye Ta-Ta...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1593&item=4736462586&rd=1#ebayphotohosting




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

£163.88 that has to be rediculous

Actually although Im not a fan of Let's Dance the album artwork was much better than this rather silly Bowie with umbrella cover, It's just way too average and quite naff for a Bowie album cover, the original Let's Dance was very more Bowiesque IMO.

Still someone has money to burn and Im NOT jealous



A truly horrid cover


London Bye Ta-Ta...

It is not for Let's dance, it is for DANCE, the remix album that was shelved in 1985.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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It is not for Let's dance, it is for DANCE, the remix album that was shelved in 1985.

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Opps! I see, anyway Im glad the cover artwork was shelved it reminds me of some horrid Rick Astley album cover YUK!

So the Dance mixes were released on what please?


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They weren't. whether the mixes of Blue Jean, Shake it, dancing with the big boys, or loving the alien were the commercially released on the 12" singles of the time is uncertain, but there was never remixes done of Let's Dance, China girl or Modern Love. This album was shelved and the material never released. Apparently both sides of the album (not sure whether Blue jean is on the end of side one or begining of side two) were going to be sequenced continuously. This was a common practice of the time, with remix albums by Euryhtmics, Human League, Pet shop boys etc. Considering I liked a lot of the remixes on the 12"s, I would have enjoyed this album had it been released.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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Considering I liked a lot of the remixes on the 12"s, I would have enjoyed this album had it been released.

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I too love the 12" remixes from that time and would have liked to have heard them, I also would have loved this album to have been released but please with a different cover




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There is a bootleg of it.

Let's Dance(disconet mix)
Blue Jean(ext dance mix)
Dancing with the Big Boys(ext dance mix)
Tonight(ext dance mix)
Tumble and Twirl(ext dance mix)
Loving the Alien(ext dance mix)
Don't Look Down(ext dance mix)
This is Not America(disconet mix)
Underground(ext dance mix)
Magic Dance(ext dance mix)
Bowie Megamix (Fame/GY/Fashion/Let's Dance/JG/Rebel Rebel)

Yeah, but we don't know if the mixes on the bootleg would have been the same as on the official LP. If I'm reading the Illisitrated Discographjy correctly, the mixes for Dance were done by Rusty Gardner and Paul Sabu, which would make them different from the extended dance mixes. For those interested, Blue Jean was mixed by John 'Jellybean' Benitez, Dancing With The Big Boys by Arthur Baker, Loving The Alien, Don't Look Down and Underground by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero. Those are the only ones associated with this collection that I know about, and there doesn't seem to be a web source that would tell the makers of different mixes.

Additionally, it's highly unlikely any official release would have included Disconet mixes, as they are unofficial DJ mixes.

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all I can suggest is that a "tie" is an elevated loin cloth....so, to throw it over one's shoulder is to do away with the loin cloth altogether!


The Atonal Express left the tonal world behind...

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There is a bootleg of it.

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Although it has now been officially released.

Wearing The Downside Up

Now now, let's not confuse people.

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Bowie Megamix (Fame/GY/Fashion/Let's Dance/JG/Rebel Rebel)

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I would love to hear/own this mix Im wondering if anyone knows how long this mix lasts please?

Does anyone have this Bootleg?

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Now why didn't I think of that!

Incidently my two Davy Jones and the Lower Third photographs arrived today and Im very pleased with them



London Bye Ta-Ta...

If you go to the illustrated discography site the megamix is in the real audio section.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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If you go to the illustrated discography site the megamix is in the real audio section.

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Thank you Alan


London Bye Ta-Ta...

I can't find the strand where we discussed 8 tracks and the like, but I wanted to mention my SACD of Heathen that has 4 extra tracks at the end of the disc that I will never be able to play especially now as I'm not going to be buying a player for at least the next 20 years.

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I can't find the strand where we discussed 8 tracks and the like, but I wanted to mention my SACD of Heathen that has 4 extra tracks at the end of the disc that I will never be able to play especially now as I'm not going to be buying a player for at least the next 20 years.

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I've been sorely tempted to buy that in the past and when I found out that a regular DVD player cannot play them I gave the idea up still it is nice to own, as for the future of SACD?


London Bye Ta-Ta...

All the tracks are on various cd singles, what you cannot get anywhere else (legally) are the extended tracks which appear on the album (see illustrated discography for full details).




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

that's the beauty of it... I have the tracks elsewhere, but forked out the £30 for the SACD anyway. I really like the 5 track Aussie(?) Slowburn cd ... I can actually play that one.

Gosh... I didn't realise I was buying so much modern Bowie output...

*hangs head in shame*

I have the 5 track Slowburn, Canadian I've been waiting for you, the three UK Everyone says hi, plus the European copy. On top of that the normal and double cd version of the album. I think that covers it.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

I remember getting the 2 disc version straight away, then stumbled across the Cd version in the 12" sleeve.... which I got purely for comical value. Then, as I'm a sucker for extra tracks, I got the afformentioned SACD. Regrets? I've had a few.

And I still couldn't piece together 'Toy' from the various tracks!

My excuse is I didn't know about the 2cd version and only saw it months later in Cardiff Market.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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I really like the 5 track Aussie(?) Slowburn CD

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Austrian - but close enough.

Wearing The Downside Up

;o)

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And I still couldn't piece together 'Toy' from the various tracks!

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Well, about a half of it is still unreleased, so...

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like duh

My thread about Toy.

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Edited by Sysiyo on 06/13/05 12:08 PM (server time).

Have any of you ever seen this for sale before?

It's most certainly a curio item, but is it real.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Looks like a radion show, and seems to be genuine, it is where your Sound and vision boot comes from.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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Looks like a radion show, and seems to be genuine, it is where your Sound and vision boot comes from.

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I've posted the track listing with it's terrible spelling errors ( No they are not my words lol )

I only wish my Sound and Vision boot did have "Pretty Pink Rose"* on it.

The tracklisting features MIS-SPELT Bowie songs! See if you can spot them!! The titles are what appear on the cu sheets!
features:-
Space Oddity
Rebel yell
Ashes to ashes
fashion
is there life on mars?
pretty Pink Rose*
Sound and Vision
Blue jean
Lets Dance
Stay
Ziggy Stardust
China Girl
Thin White Duke
Young Americans
Suffragette City
Fame
Hereos
Changes
Jean Genie
White Light
Modern Love


London Bye Ta-Ta...

"Hereos"... is that a bit like 'stereos', but with an H?

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"Hereos"... is that a bit like 'stereos', but with an H?

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and don't ever giggle at my terrible spelling after that! LOL.

Incidently Sys whilst hunting through ebay tonight I found this gem from the 1970s...



Is this one cool item or not? and if anyone wants too view the whole page? then please do so here.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Now this is one very cool DVD to own

Stage 2 DVD


London Bye Ta-Ta...

That's got some clips of the Earls Court footage. Mega rare.

bfp

mega rare??

isnt it just the usual LWT special with that Horse who intervieuws Bowie?

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What Horse you talking about Ingmar? you don't surely mean Russell Harty do you?

Like him or not? the guy got Bowie talking a few times



London Bye Ta-Ta...

The Last Ever Ziggy Stardust gig, but with the Jeff Beck encores.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=59009&item=6406471880&rd=1

Chrissy Chris

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The Last Ever Ziggy Stardust gig, but with the Jeff Beck encores.

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Thats one mighty cool find there I didn't know this even existed.


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That isn't saying much.

Who can I be now?

Can anyone please tell me what was the point of these Long Boxes? apart from an enormous waste of cardboard the CD must have appeared very odd in these daft containers.

How long did they issue these for? we never had these in the UK as far as I can remember.


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It was purely a US idea, it was just in the late 80s and early 90s. My copy of Tin Mchine II came in a long box as I bought it on Import as by the time I was buying cds it was no longer easy to get in the UK. I immediately put the box in the bin.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

I think we discussed this recently, the main point of the long boxes was that they could be displayed in the same shelves as LP's, which saved the shopkeepers from investing in new display shelves.

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It was purely a US idea, it was just in the late 80s and early 90s. My copy of Tin Mchine II came in a long box as I bought it on Import as by the time I was buying cds it was no longer easy to get in the UK. I immediately put the box in the bin.

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Right I see now, but was the CD inside protected in anyway? and were there any booklets inside.



London Bye Ta-Ta...

Just a normal cd in a jewel case.




You should not underestimate people, not everybody is as thick as you.

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Well yeah that does make sense, such a terrible waste of card though

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Just a normal cd in a jewel case.

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My what madness all that packaging, still at least I know now and it's been bugging me for years!


London Bye Ta-Ta...

WOW! just look at the price of this and I've never seen Mr Bowie wearing that cool white silk shirt before.

Rich peoples goodies


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Boy!!! just take a look at the price of this




London Bye Ta-Ta...

And look how much the "Crystal Japan" 7" is at the bottom of that page!

‘‘And I say, ‘What’s the matter with my psychopathic sex?’ ’’
—Avatar courtesy Nature_Boy

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And look how much the "Crystal Japan" 7" is at the bottom of that page!

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Yeah I posted that above my previous post, these sums of money are ludicrous! even if I had that amount of money? I could not justify spending all that for a relatively cheap piece of plastic.



London Bye Ta-Ta...

According to TW's new tradition of pigeon-holing every post into specific forums, I think this thread should be removed from the collectors forum as it is clearly not intended to collect or sell collectables. I expect immediate action.

WILL TW DIE IN '05?!

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CDs, vinyl, videos, questions about rare releases etc.

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So if I were to nitpick, then I could say this thread falls under the mandate of Collector's Corner as outlined in the forum description.

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So if I were to nitpick, then I could say this thread falls under the mandate of Collector's Corner as outlined in the forum description.

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Thank you Sys, and I find it a very good thread about the odd/expensive and really quite rediculous Bowie items that are found on eBay.

It is a thread that genuine Bowie fans can point out collectors items and phony items for other fans.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Indeed, this is one of my favourite TW threads, for it's informative value.

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Hey Dogz, win a Love You till Tuesday disc yet???

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Hey Dogz, win a Love You till Tuesday disc yet???

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I was rather close tonight to winning my holy grail, but someone pipped me to the post by 5 seconds! It wasn't you was it?

The price it went for

It really is driving me potty now trying to buy this, anyone out there care to swap theirs for this, you interested Alan? If so let me know please.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

I tell you what, I wish I had bought multiple copies ten years ago. I think I might have to start....

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

No, twas not me. I've happened to catch your last 2 valiant efforts though and I was rooting for ya. It's tough getting sniped at the last minute. Good luck on the next one!

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So do I Alan, at least I could trade one with you

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No, twas not me. I've happened to catch your last 2 valiant efforts though and I was rooting for ya. It's tough getting sniped at the last minute. Good luck on the next one!

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Why thank you very much the person who pipped me to the post also bought this, so obviously not a member of TW

It really is driving me insane trying to buy this LYTT CD album


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Just take a look at this rather bizzare version of Bowies "Knock on Wood" you will not believe your eyes

Knock on Wood






London Bye Ta-Ta...

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Hey Dogz, win a Love You till Tuesday disc yet???

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Well Im happy to say that YES I have finally won a LYTT CD album, but it ruddy cost me! still I have one now

Now this is what I call a Bowie poster...

cool poster


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Anyone got £600.00 to spare?

Young Americans


London Bye Ta-Ta...

0 bids.

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One would have to win lotto to buy this


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Just how rare is this release please?



The seller and more about it can be found here


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Not very rare really, I would prefer the picture sleeve though, see the illustrated discography site for details.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Kinda guessed as much really, was just checking.

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Im off there now



NIce




London Bye Ta-Ta...

<<600.00 Young Americans>>

I thought gold records were usually coloured gold?

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I thought gold records were usually coloured gold?

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I think the fact that it has all the below mentioned done to it, that makes it this valuable apparently?

You are bidding for a unique presentation signed album of Young Americans 1975..."Our Price" records website will confirm the value..the cover is personally signed by the man himself with a certificate of authenticity..the certificate confirms that the framed item has been security sealed...thisthis will sell for at least £2000 at a retail outlet....a must for all Bowie devotees....I have since been informed that the late Luther Vandross performed backing vocals on the single of the same name....



It's one hell of a lot of money





London Bye Ta-Ta...

So it is an autographed album, in a fancy frame.

I wouldn't give you tuppence for it.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

IMO, it would only be a 600.00 item if the autograph was an authetic 1975 Bowie autograph.

bfp

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IMO, it would only be a 600.00 item if the autograph was an authetic 1975 Bowie autograph.

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Yes but it states the Bowie autograph is authentic with a certificate of proof, surely if this seller was fibbing he/she could be fined or struck off eBay for deception.

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Maybe thruppence three farthing?


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What I mean is, what is so special? It has Bowie's signature on it, wow.
If it was a specially written personal message to me, then it would mean something, but a signature is pretty lame really. And dressing it up by putting it in a fancy frame doesn't make it any better. COA's are nothing to shout about either.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Well thats your view, but I would place great importance on it being signed, I've bought so called autographed photos off ebay with COA, but Im not that sure they are real, but in the shops that actually specialize in these genuine signed products by Bowie they sell for vast amounts of money, I would personally love a real autograph of Bowies, but thats just my opinon only, I guess we all view things differently.

Fourpence and thats my final offer


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Music counts, it is just a bit of cardboard with ink on it

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Yes of course it is we will agree to differ, thats what makes being part of this forum so special, we all have our different opinions and can express them freely as adults, well most of us


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Now this is one very rare Bowie CD and according to the seller this was a real issue and only 500 were actually pressed, see what you think...



Read about it here


London Bye Ta-Ta...

It's a bootleg.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Yeah thanks Alan, I kinda figured it would be and wanted your opinion, how comes they are allowed to lie so openly on eBay?


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Well if it is a factory pressed bootleg it is posible the is only 500 pressed. Ebay don't vet every entry, if there did there would be no bootlegs listed as they are illegal, they only cancel auctions if people report them.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Thank you.

BTW...

Sound+Vision was released just before the re-issue schedule got under way (1989). It is a beautifully packaged and comprises three full-length CDs or LPs, the cd edition contains a fourth CD with three live tracks, and a LDCD video edit of Ashes To Ashes. Although officially a North American release, it was heavily imported for a while into the UK. It was also available in a very limited wooden box special edition containing a certificate of authenticity signed by Bowie himself. It was re-issued in November 1994 with a CD-ROM version of the Ashes To Ashes video, and in October 1995 it was re-packaged as Sound + Vision Revisited as a regualr sized set of three CDs.

Anybody ever seen this for sale on eBay or anywhere esle? and has anyone got a picture of this wooden boxset please.



London Bye Ta-Ta...

Just seen this extraordinary single on eBay...



A rather snazzy sleeve for a very unique Bowie song, I wonder if it's the full China-a-ling with Bowies vocals?

Read here


London Bye Ta-Ta...

Who in their right mind would put Bowie's "Fame" on an EP so full of CRAP! ( excluding Procal Harum ) the rest is diabolical



And we thought EMI were lousy.

click


London Bye Ta-Ta...

another bootleg 7"

You get stuff like this in Thailand and other territories a lot. South America is another area where these sort of releases were sanctioned (or not).

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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You get stuff like this in Thailand and other territories a lot. South America is another area where these sort of releases were sanctioned (or not).

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Right I see, but it's such lousy taste

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Cheers.


London Bye Ta-Ta...

I have a potato chip that bears the spitting image of Ziggy. I also have a grilled cheese sandwich that bears a silouette of Bowie from his Thin White Duke years.

Shall I list them on eBay? How much you all think I can get for these items??? ;)

"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was..."

Any chance of a private sale?

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

Make me an offer.

Beware: I charge more for shipping and handling than it really costs to mail these items.

Also, I only accept PayPal. :)

"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was..."

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I have a potato chip that bears the spitting image of Ziggy. I also have a grilled cheese sandwich that bears a silouette of Bowie from his Thin White Duke years.

Shall I list them on eBay?

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Nah you're wasting your time, those items are as common as muck on eBay

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How much you all think I can get for these items??? ;)

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Indigestion most probably

BTW I once had a devonshire swede that was the spitting image of Sting.



London Bye Ta-Ta...

I once saw a Swede who looked like Agnetha Falkstog.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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Abbanother lousy joke bites the dust


London Bye Ta-Ta...

I've seen the wood box of S+V go for hefty sums in the past..the best I could do is this pic.

I saw it once in a record store in Soho for around 250 UK pounds. Not worth it for that much. And I did see the CD box set for about $60A in 2001. Went back a day later to get it and it had been snapped up.

Please check out my Bowie Bootleg Site...
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Bowie On Disc

OK, here is the S+V wood box in better detail!

Sound+Vision

Lovely aint it?

Please check out my Bowie Bootleg Site...
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Bowie On Disc

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OK, here is the S+V wood box in better detail!

Sound+Vision

Lovely aint it?

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Thank you very much for finding the picture David and yes it is just gorgeous, lot of money I agree but such an object of desire


London Bye Ta-Ta...

First time I've ever seen this...



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London Bye Ta-Ta...

And just look at how much their asking for it?

click


London Bye Ta-Ta...

If anyone wants a copy of Buddha of Suburbia please check this page It is amazingly cheap I paid £27.00 for mine,


London Bye Ta-Ta...

This has to be the ultimate in Ziggy Stardust DVDs



London Bye Ta-Ta...

I saw the Oxford '73 cine film advertise on ebay earlier, the seller illiustated it with screen grabs from ZSMP claiming they were Oxford. A little dodgy.

P.s. I think we talked about this a while ago, but there is currently an AS reel to reel on ebay if you have a peep.

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but there is currently an AS reel to reel on ebay if you have a peep.

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WOW! thanks very much that is indeed megga rare and the first time I've seen it







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Looks lovely, doesn't it?

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Looks lovely, doesn't it?

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Sure does as does this...

Diamond Dogs

BTW have you ever seen S2S on reel to reel please?


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That's a bad bootleg... downloaded off the net and put onto reel 2 reel to make it more interesting. Nasty work.

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That's a bad bootleg... downloaded off the net and put onto reel 2 reel to make it more interesting. Nasty work.

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Many thanks for the warning, I'm all for exposing these cheats


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Anyone got US $355.00 they don't want



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This is supposed to resemble David Bowie...


Ch-ch-ch-changes.
Back reads, "Gene at State Fair in WWII on leave"
Vintage 1930s spacey hand tinted photobooth photo in excellent condition.

This image apparently comes from the 1930s and be found here

Doesn't look anything like him to me.



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It's the first time I've ever seen this on E-bay before and in a picture sleeve



Fancy your chances of winning? then bid here

Doesn't even look like Bowie.


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It's the 'singer' of Arnold Corns, Freddi Burreti who did some Ziggy clothes later on.

That is a fantastic item! Wonder if it's real...?

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Freddi Burreti who did some Ziggy clothes later on.

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Thanks I didn't know that, I naturally presumed it was meant to be a disguised Bowie.

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That is a fantastic item! Wonder if it's real...?

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Well the seller is brand new and has no feedback as yet! I would guess this is the real item and going by the asking price this seller has inside info on it's worth.





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Yep this single is real - it's the Dutch picture sleeve for this track, and a very nice one it is too.

yeah, but if it's ~real~.

Well it's very hard to fake a 7" single, and it looks real enough in the pictures - it's the right label as well.

That is utter rubbish.

Even Matrix numbers can be forged.

Indeed, I've seen very official-looking 7" singles on sale that cannot have been really official, as they've contained tracks that haven't been released on single.

Unless there's some very very rare RCA release of 'Round And 'Round / Amsterdam that I don't know of.

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either way, that's a great coupling!

Actually, as they were consecutive 'new' b-sides, maybe it was an issue for jukeboxes?

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That's possible, I guess. Although I think it would be a bit unlikely to release a jukebox single dedicated solely to B-sides...

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I have just had a look in Marshall Jarman's 7" discography book and i've got to say it looks like it is real to me.....I doubt a collector would get away with selling a fake online?

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Bearing in mind how big Bowie was then, and how popular jukeboxes were, nothing would surprise me!

... especially as it would raise awareness of the two b-sides while only using up one space in the machine, especially if the landlord already had, say The Jean Genie and Starman in there.

And, of course they are both covers that would make them more palatable on a jukebox rather than, say, self penned obscurities.

Still, a nice item.

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Well it's very hard to fake a 7" single, and it looks real enough in the pictures - it's the right label as well.

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I think it's the genuine article ( even though I cannot afford it ) but look at the ageing on the picture sleeve, that cannot be faked to that degree im sure.

If this is a fake? then it's a bloody perfect one.


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You wouldn't believe the lengths some bootleggers go to to fake aging... you hear some great stories, burying a boxful of vinyl in their local woods... keeping some in their dog basket for a couple of weeks.

You'd be impressed by the results, too!

I'm not suggesting this is faked, but be weary, a picture isn't enough. That's why you see collectors smelling articles too.

Nutters.

Scouring E-bay today for so-called rarities! I came across these two boot CD albums...

DAVID BOWIE From Station To Station vol.1 CD and this DAVID BOWIE From Station To Station vol.2 CD and im puzzled by these tracks...

1. About Telepathy Manhattan Center Studios, VH-1 23.8.99
19. About Pressure (Manhattan Center Studio, VH-1 Aug 23rd,1999)
11. About Shoes Manhattan Center Studios, VH-1, Aug 23rd, 199917. About Eyebrows Manhattan Center Studios, VH-1,Aug 23rd, 1999

You have to purchase both volumes to obtain these tracks, are these as I suspect Outside outtakes or something completely new?


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The answer is in the question, VH1 23/8/99 this is an interview.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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The answer is in the question, VH1 23/8/99 this is an interview

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Thanks very much, there was I hoping I'd discovered some new Bowie tracks


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It's the "Storytellers" banter.

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I'm not suggesting this is faked, but be weary, a picture isn't enough. That's why you see collectors smelling articles too.

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I would say the record is genuine definately now, I've just carried out a check on the current bidder and BOY does that bidder shell out some dosh the bidder thinks nothing of spending almost $300.00 on a single "Knock On Wood" I posted earlier in this thread, either someone won the lotto or it's a group of collectors maybe?



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Probably someone with more dollars than sense.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

Alright come on own up! who do we know that's Austrailian and HUGE Bowie fan? someone called bowiedownunder bought that fab Arnold Corns vinyl single

Any ideas


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I think that may be our very own ADAM!!!!!! He runs the Bowie Downunder site so it may be the man himself.

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I think that may be our very own ADAM!!!!!!

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I am sooooooooooooooooo envious out of this world addition to any collection.


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I doubt very much this is Adam, although only he could say, but he has said that multi-formats, rare covers etc are not his thing.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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but he has said that multi-formats, rare covers etc are not his thing.

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Yeah I remember him saying that, but perhaps this is for a Bowie club/society that he buys for?

With many members chipping in you can afford these magnificent items and looking back on bowiedownunder past purchases, It's someone with lots of money to play with.



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Just take a look at these then...





Havn't got a clue what you'd play them on? but nice items none the less.

click


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2 inch videotape from a tv studio?

DD and YA, each 30 second commercials?

Both have been available on bootleg.

bfp

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Both have been available on bootleg.

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I think I might have them on a bootleg somewhere? I'm now wondering if anymore Bowie albums/singles had american/european or anywhere come to that? TV commercials.


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I believe the next album to be given a tv advert after this was the Ktel Very best of David Bowie album.

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I believe the next album to be given a tv advert after this was the Ktel Very best of David Bowie album.

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It'd be great if someone had a link to it? an mpeg or site where we could view it, anyone please


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"Heroes" was given a heavy TV run with this advert that had the most serious voice over you have ever heard....

"Heroes" .....the new album from Daviiid Booowiieeeeee!

If memory serves me the voice sounded a bit like Charlie Sheen..but it wasn't ;)

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DD, DL and YA each had tv ads.

#Both have been available on bootleg#

That's never stopped anyone from splashing out big money on some junk!

I do like the DD advert. What is Bowie on?!!!

'Alright?'

Alright???'

Can anyone let me know if this double CD is genuine or a boot please?

DAVID BOWIE VERY RARE DOUBLE CD COLLECTORS SET


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It is neither, it is the cd single of BTWN and a baktabak interview disk that have been bundled together. Someone is making it out to be something it is not though.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

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i have a Young Americans Advert link!!!!!!!!!

Check out this great site, and click on the last one (which says Young Americans obviously).

http://www.nicholasjdanton.supanet.com/rarevideosBowiecollection.htm

Chrissy Chris

That interview is from 1990...not a bad interview but yes the seller is trying to pull a swifty over punters.

I've noticed some dealers on Ebay who always seem to be flogging some Bowie stuff that is obviously not the real deal.

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The BTWN / Interview IS NOT a pirate... more just a company exploiting a legal loophole by sticking together two releases they bought up the overstock of.

There is quite a variety of different singles I've seen packaged with the interview like this, although none quite inkeeping thematically with the interview.

Splendid!

A page with some great video's on, It's also the first time i've ever seen that "Crystal Japan" advert, seeing them all distorted and blurry adds that little bit of extra mystery to them, I am very greatful thank you.

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I've noticed some dealers on Ebay who always seem to be flogging some Bowie stuff that is obviously not the real deal.

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The very ones I try to expose if possible, I just don't like Bowie fans being cheated.


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Boy! is this one truly magnificent object of any Bowie fans desire, a lot of money though

Bronze Resin Sculpture

Only wish I could afford it.


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This is quite a find, bare in mind that Turkey was a very rare holiday destination then!

Look


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One very cool item if you have the money?



here


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Anthony, stop salivating.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

WOW! now that is something and not that huge a price considering how much they sell for singularly.

Drool


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I have been using Ebay to build back up my EMI sound & vision reissue cassette collection.

Yes I know I'm sad.

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I have been using Ebay to build back up my EMI sound & vision reissue cassette collection.

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Yeah I seem to remember you being after the David Live EMI release, any luck yet?

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Yes I know I'm sad.

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Perhaps we should have a Who's the saddest thread? think we'd tie lol.


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The David Live 1990 Emi issue has come up twice recently, but has always ended too late at night, which really annoyed me.

Serves my right for not hanging onto them all first time around.

I was almost in tears being reunited with a sound & vision ZS tape. A lovely summer when I got that first time round.

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but has always ended too late at night, which really annoyed me.

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That always annoys me big time there is the facility to put a max bid on, although i've never used that function yet! everytime i've tried it puts the money on straight away, to be honest i'm not sure how that works? or that I trust it.

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I was almost in tears being reunited with a sound & vision ZS tape

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I can't place that at the moment, got a picture please?



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I don't really see the attraction of the cassettes to be honest. CD's for their sound and ease, vinyl for the big pictures and because they're so tactile, but cassettes, with their hissy sound and miniscule artwork, not my thing, I have NLMD and the two tin machine cassettes, and they're free to a good home to be honest.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

~sound & vision ZS tape~

Just the EMI S&V reissue of the ZS album. Complete with a big 'Contains Rare and Previously Unleased Material' sticker on the front, which even on it's own totally transports me back to summer 1990.

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The only reason i've kept mine is for sentimental reasons, they cost me a bomb during the 1970s, me with my little cassette player listening for hours on end to my Bowie tapes in my bedroom, couldn't part with those memories

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which even on it's own totally transports me back to summer 1990.

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Nice


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~I don't really see the attraction of the cassettes to be honest~

...but you know I'm terminally sad!

Is there any cure? Surely in this day and age.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

Save yourself! It will only end up back in the digital vs. analogue mixes debate..!

I wonder is this for real (as in really manafactured) or yet another boot vinyl album? It's a lot of money.



ULTRA RARE SOVIET UNION LP DAVID BOWIE - STARMAN CCCP


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If you look on Rüüd's excellent discography site, you will see this is a pirate.

Dignity is valuable, but our lives are valuable too.

Thanks for the pointer Alan, I have so many Bowie sites in my favs now it's rather confusing as to where is what.

It's lot of money for a pirate


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Tell that to Johnny Depp.



Wake up!.

Is this really a boot? I have this record and I always thought it was an official release, licensed to the official Russian Melodia label.

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Is this really a boot? I have this record and I always thought it was an official release, licensed to the official Russian Melodia label.

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I wondered that which is why I poised the question, but after looking at the db discography section it says this...

Pirate albums are LPs or CDs that at first sight appear to be regular releases, but in fact are bootlegs pretending to be official albums; also included are a few bootlegs that were available through official channels plus several semi-legal albums (from countries that have no copyright laws). In this section all LPs and the CDs Greatest Hits First Presentation to David Bowie are covered.

Starman
(Melodia C 6026469001), 1989 (Russia)
Space Oddity/God Knows I'm Good/All The Madmen/Black Country Rock/Five Years/Soul Love/Moonage Daydream/Starman/Lady Stardust.

It even has a catalogue number, be it boot/pirate or whatever? I'm very envious you have this fab recording




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I don't get how they wanted so much for it. It was selling for about 20 UK pounds in the early to late 90's through Marhsall Jarman.

I only paid about 10 UK pounds for my copy. The only interesting stuff on Ebay that deserve high prices are the 7" singles. The bootleg vinyl is all available is mass these days so the old 70's and 80's vinyl boots are not that rare to me anymore.

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It didn't reach the selling price of $260.00, so the seller has relisted here and deducted $40.00 off the original price, big deal bet it still doesn't sell.

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I do not remember exactly how much I paid for it (3 or 4 years ago) but I am sure that it was less than 10 euro. The price now on ebay is absolutely ridiculous.
I found my copy on the German ebay. I already found a lot of things there at very low prices (e.g. the famous BBC sampler for 4 euro!!)

The EMI set went for £285 in the end.

Wake up!.

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I think he means the full set of Japanese RCA CDs that sold yesterday. I was bidding on them but had no luck.



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Yeah, I don't know why I said EMI.

Wake up!.

I know this is obviously a boot! but it's a truly lovely boot none the less I'd love to own it, what a pity that RCA didn't actually put a beautiful album out like this for real, the cover is just FAB as are the graphics, the song choices are terrific.

Sordid details following...



Read all and bid here if interested?

One track on the album puzzles me? what excatly is this please.

YOU DIN'T HEAR IT FROM ME (1984- DODO) and why wasn't it on Sound and Vision.

Sorry to read you lost out on your bid David.

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Because it's tattooed on our brains from birth


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I wonder why people still pay big $$$ for bootlegs widely available on the CDR trading ring. I know it is nice toown the real thing but for the price that record will go for you could do a pretty decent trade and get a stack of shows.

10 or 20 I could understand but not 35 and upwards.

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It is on Sound and Vision.

Wake up!.

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It is on Sound and Vision.

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I didn't realize that was it's full title


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That is the title that the bootleggers in the 70s and 80s called it before the correct title was told. A bit like 'it's gonna be me' was called 'come back my baby' and the instrumental I feel free is know as 'is there life after marriage'.

Wake up!.

Confused? stay tuned

Many thanks Alan, good lord all these alternate titles!!!


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Not a boot but an official release from RCA issued in Australia ( I think? ) anyway the seller lives in Oz.

Rather a lot of money but a gorgeous piece of art.





Read here, but be warned you need plenty of money.


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Will you just look at the price of this now...



And there was I complaining that I had to pay £47.00 for my copy of this CD album.

Read here


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Oh How I wish I had bought multiple copies of this in the early 90s.

Wake up!.

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Oh How I wish I had bought multiple copies of this in the early 90s.

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Do you know any Tardis builders?


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Only the Timelords of Gallifrey.

Wake up!.

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Only the Timelords of Gallifrey.

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Will they accept Nectar points?


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Ok Ant and Strawman, which of you drew this?


Wake up!.

Item location: North Norfolk


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Brilliant... Changes Three was my first Bowie bootleg. A lovely piece of vinyl, before any of the tracks on it had been reissued. A lovely collection.

It appears even Bowienet are getting in on the act now, albeit several months later as per normal

RARE BOWIE 45s FETCH RECORD SUMS ON EBAY

Bloody copycats!


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A seller on eBay has the audacity to ask £20.00 GBP for this one EP single

In no way does it warrant that rediculous price...



Take a look here


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It's all 3 singles. Still pushing it a little!