Coming Soon: Cool Odds and Ends
I'm preparing to list two cool items on eBay. Both are musts for the crazy over-the-top Ted Rall fans...if there are such a thing.
The first is a highly limited (under 30 copies), numbered, copy of the rare hardback edition of "Wake Up, You're Liberal!" (2004). I just found the box under a bunch of stuff in my studio and figured someone would probably want it.
The second is arcane but significant: My entire collection of music on cassette, which includes hundreds (probably about 300) of great punk, hardcore, rock, New Wave and synthpop tapes recorded from LP or CD between my high school years (1978-1981) and the late 1980s. Each cassette is carefully handlettered by yours truly and contains the music that influenced my cartoons when I was developing as a cartoonist. From a music collector's viewpoint, there is a lot of music here that never made it to CD.
The first is a highly limited (under 30 copies), numbered, copy of the rare hardback edition of "Wake Up, You're Liberal!" (2004). I just found the box under a bunch of stuff in my studio and figured someone would probably want it.
The second is arcane but significant: My entire collection of music on cassette, which includes hundreds (probably about 300) of great punk, hardcore, rock, New Wave and synthpop tapes recorded from LP or CD between my high school years (1978-1981) and the late 1980s. Each cassette is carefully handlettered by yours truly and contains the music that influenced my cartoons when I was developing as a cartoonist. From a music collector's viewpoint, there is a lot of music here that never made it to CD.
posted by Ted Rall at
11:56 AM
4 Comments:
No offense, but isn't it sorta illegal to sell homemade tapes of LPs and such as opposed to the original LP?
A friend who might know more about such things has suggested that what you are trying to sell on eBay is illegal if done on eBay. Copyrighted materials. Is this true? Would Big Brother be watching, scrutinizing the items on eBay?
Wow, shit. That's true. I didn't think of the copyright issue. And yet...
...what about people who sell off iPods loaded with music on eBay? Isn't that illegal too? And in a format people actually use?
Well, people who would like to make an offer should email me at chet@rall.com. We'll talk offline, as they say in stupid corporations.
Selling home made copies of cassette tapes is technically illegal, but punishment for doing so is pursued about as often as a record label decides to take a CD or LP back from a radio station because it has a "for promotional use only..." label on it. That is to say, never.
Now, on the other hand, if you were digitising these tracks and uploading them to a file-sharing service...
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