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Get It Now ›In the latest round of Michael Jackson's weird stuff auctions there's a poem about doing it with children. It goes: “Children of the world, we'll do it, with song and dance and innocent bliss, and the soft caress of a loving kiss, we'll do it.” Note to the children: don't do it.
A 30-year old picture of Madonna is going up for auction at Christie's today. She was originally paid $25 for the shot, and it's expected to go for at least $10,000. A perfect gift for friends and family!
Goofy Auctions compiles a daily list of some of the crazier auctions on Ebay. Also, if you’re wondering…those aren’t pubes. They’re mutton chops, duh.
Tech Buzz A site that helps you auction off your bad investments to the U.S. government. Submit your shitpile, including what you thinks its value is, and browse through other piles people are trying to unload. If Washington is buying toxic mortgage securities, maybe they’ll buy your old copies of Cat Fancy magazine.
Culture Buzz The larger-than-life British artist made headlines (yet again) this week with a record-breaking auction. By cutting out the middleman (aka his art dealer) and taking his work—cows and sharks in formaldehyde, mostly—directly to Sotheby’s, the guy made $200.7 million in two days, breaking Picasso’s sale record from 1993. Putting animals in goo pays!
A pair of old jeans in found in a mine in the Mojave are going for big bucks on eBay. Current bidding is up to $8,700 for the candle-wax-splattered but otherwise intact pair of 201 Levi jeans — fyi, the measurements run waist 34” and inseam 31”.
Music Buzz The hand painted bass drum skin featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sells for over $1,000,000 in auction. The relic was auctioned at Christie’s of London, and ultimately sold for four times its expected value. Touted as “the world’s most famous drum skin,” the piece is nothing short of a pop culture holy grail. The proud owner currently has it stretched over his Yamaha bass drum in his basement ready for full use…I jest.
A vintage Ferrari sells at auction for a record $10,894,900. I don’t usually get excited about expensive cars but this one is actually beautiful. When did all cars become so ugly? 1970s? 80s?