Is it really worth as much as THAT?

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Holy shit

http://www.ebay.com/...681644258196125

But is that claim about this being the only sealed copy bogus? Sounds like it to me.

Edited March 6, 2012 by slide_advantage_redoux

[Jim R]

How would anybody know that they had the only sealed copy?

The price is beyond absurd. Even the similarly priced (appraised on Antiques Roadshow) early copy of "Meet The Beatles", signed by all the group members when they saw it for the first time, and given to the son of a Rickenbacker guitar representative (as I recall) is nuts afaic.

Edit: here's the LP appraisal I referred to...

Antiques Roadshow LP appraisal

Edited March 6, 2012 by Jim R

[Stereojack]

Holy shit

http://www.ebay.com/...681644258196125

But is that claim about this being the only sealed copy bogus? Sounds like it to me.

I don't even trust that this is an original. This LP was widely bootlegged in the 1970's, and this appears to be the bootleg, although it's hard to tell from the photo.

Typical Beatles silliness from an amateur "dealer".

[Big Beat Steve]

How many sealed copies are there of the "Butcher" cover LP and what would they fetch, I wonder?

[sidewinder]

Total and utter lunacy. 'A fool and his/her money etc.'

[robertoart]

It will probably be warped too.

I bought a sealed copy of The Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes, when I cracked the seal to play it, the warp was so bad the sound was distorting.

Although I think there are ways of looking at the cover that can tell you whether it's an original vee-jay pressing or a boot.

Edited March 6, 2012 by freelancer

[RDK]

Funny, but I bought a copy that looked just like that - sealed too! - from the dollar bins at K-Mart back in 1978.

[clifford_thornton]

That Antiques Roadshow bit is interesting, though the appraised value as a cultural artifact is kind of absurd in my thinking. Then again, the Beatles aren't my cup of tea, so...