Tackiness du jour
Nov. 29th, 2003 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSeen on Wired:
I suppose I can't blame the owner for wanting to sell it. I can't help but wonder who it is and how he obtained it, though...and how much he paid for it. Profiteering on such a grisly artifact just seems downright tacky to me. If I had it, I'd either destroy it or donate it to a John Lennon museum somewhere.
Let It Be
John Lennon autographed an album for his assassin just five hours before the former Beatle was killed. Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono's signed Double Fantasy is for sale on the Web for $525,000, the owner taking advantage of the recent frenzy of interest in Beatles memorabilia. Last week, Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the song "Nowhere Man" went for $455,000 at Christie's. According to the website's sales pitch, the album's cover and dust jacket contain the "forensically enhanced" fingerprints of Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, who shot the singer outside Lennon's Manhattan home, on December 8, 1980. The album was found in a flower planter near the building and used as evidence against Chapman.I suppose I can't blame the owner for wanting to sell it. I can't help but wonder who it is and how he obtained it, though...and how much he paid for it. Profiteering on such a grisly artifact just seems downright tacky to me. If I had it, I'd either destroy it or donate it to a John Lennon museum somewhere.
