pieter nooten michael brook sleeps with the fishes rar

And I would like to issue a warning to other collectors not to support this type of exploitation solely aimed at fleecing collectors.Ī recap.

I prefer “proper” records, not pieces of perspex with a flexidisc attached. I decided not to “invest” in the 25-or-so Banksy picture discs the seller had on offer. And the quality of the artwork, not to mention the sound, is really poor. They cannot really be called bootlegs as they are not really records at all. They are produced to appeal to collectors and sold at wildly inflated prices. The same seller is selling picture discs by other artists, such as Björk, Aphex Twin, Led Zeppelin and others at the same sort of inflated prices. He had about twenty-five different discs with Banksy cover art for sale and was prepared to let me have them for the “bargain” price of $139 each.įurther research on Ebay gave more surprises. The seller informed me that he had “bought” the discs and the person who had sold them to him said they were made in Japan and only twenty or so copies existed. The image is slightly blurred as if it has been copied from a picture sourced on the Internet.The sound quality is poor, probably lifted from an MP3 file. X“.Įxamination revealed that the records are 2 mm thick pieces of perspex with a sort of thick flexidisc with the image and sound track affixed. The Blak Twang record is the “ Kik Off” single and the One Cut has the track “ Mr. As shown, it came in a die-cut, black card sleeve. The “ Keep It Real” is a version by Jamal, called “ Keep It Real“. These turned out to be single-sided singles. I made an offer for it and after some haggling managed to buy it. I’ve tried to replicate text on a thin strip to use as a spine and have found it nigh on impossible–so the appearance of text on the spine of this cover suggests to me it is genuine. But the photos of this Ebay item showed that the artist, record title and catalogue number were printed on the spine. If I was going to make a seven inch cover of this record that, as far as I know, has only been released as a 12″, I would simply photograph the front and rear of the cover, reduce the photos to the correct size in Photoshop, align them together and get my printer to print the result on glossy 300 gm paper. However, as a well-known faker myself, there was one detail in the item description that suggested that it may actually be genuine. Well I have never seen one of these before and was immediately suspicious that it could be a fake.

I recently saw a copy of a cover for a seven inch version of DJ Danger Mouse’s 2008 unofficial Keep It Real / Laugh Now single. Ebay seems to be a real treasure trove and a great place to do research.

I’m constantly on the look out for record and CD covers with cover art by the artist known as Banksy.

Pieter nooten michael brook sleeps with the fishes rar