Nov 302011
“Guess I’m a lone rhinoceros no more,” says Adrian.
The same goes for you!
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I like to use this opportunity to tell you what happened to me several Saturdays ago. I was hanging w/a friend of mine for the 1st time since he got back from Europe, giving him a ride back home from his job @ my local record store. So we were just chatting about music & baseball when he said that he wanted to go to the local FYE & check it out. He spent all day working @ a record store & now he wants to go to another one. Go figure.
Anyway, we go to the FYE store & we both poke around different areas. After I finished looking around, I go see my friend, who’s near the box set section. He says to me, “Joe, look at this, I can’t believe it.” In his hands was a copy of the Jellyfish Fan Club box set. What he couldn’t believe was the price that was on it. It said .25. Not $25, .25, as in 4 bits, 1/4 of a Yankee Dollar, 25 CENTS. We approached an employee to see if this was the right price & he said it was. So I ended up buying it (my friend already had a copy) for a total of $0.27 w/tax. We both looked up what it’s currently selling for & it’s many times more than $0.25.
Not too suprising. It is Jellyfish after all…
Oh, man – if that’s selling for anything decent, I’d sell it on ebay and leave the sticker on it.