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Never seen before this Japan-only extreme scarcity that is
accompanied with a 7-page info sheet from the company
(CBS/SONY Japan) |
Recently, this mega rare vinyl LP was up for a major Japanese auction site and the competition closed last weekend. The copy went to someone (not me!) who paid over
$1,100 (
129,500 JPY exactly) as a result of a cumulative total of
36 bids. It is interesting to note that this is the
fourth copy of this
custom promotion-only album auctioned off here that I saw less than a year
ago. The
first copy was put on auction last April in 2016 and the
winning bid was
241,000 JPY with a cumulative total of
30 bids. The
second one came out last June and was sold for
219,500 JPY, which involved total
58 bids.
Late December last year, the
third one was won for
193,000 JPY with total
44 bids.
As far as I examined the images that were shown on the individual
auction pages, these auctioned records were different, independent
copies each other. I think this is quite a rare case that
such an extreme scarcity suddenly emerged four times on the auction site within 10 months, taking into account the frequency by which it appeared on auction in the past and the limited copy
number pressed back in 1978 (reportedly 100 copies, the unconfirmed
number of which has been exported to the US; check
the previous blog).
