January 19th, 2010 / 5:27 pm
Web Hype

Things You Can Buy and Not Buy (For Now)

I missed the Brandon Scott Gorrell sale. Two days and the inventory already sunder and yank. Fucking internet. A few hours pass and you might as well be telling people about disco.

Heroin Hostess prints you can buy. But will the customs fees go ouch?

But you can’t get all the back issues of Nude Magazine. Unless you live in Europe. They are cheaply priced and look amazing. Black velvet painting, Terry Southern, Jaime Hernandez–that’s one issue!

You can buy absinthe online but must pretend it’s for the bottle not the juice.

The value of the item is in the collectible container, not its contents.

The container has not been opened and any incidental contents are not intended for consumption.

Right…

You can buy first edition Edgar Allan Poe for $662,500. (But that was months ago–Bee Gees and Banana-seat bikes.)

You can buy first edition Light Boxes by Shane Jones for $199.95 new and $250 used. I am fuddled, I’ll admit.

Tao Lin has 40% of the drafts of a short story folded into a “religious tolerance” holding envelope/carrying case. It is for sale, but you knew that already.

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4 Comments

  1. drew kalbach

      originally bought the first edition light boxes for its investment value

  2. drew kalbach

      originally bought the first edition light boxes for its investment value

  3. Janey Smith

      Peter Sotos.

  4. Janey Smith

      Peter Sotos.