Flaming Lips / Hum Chicago 00 Ryan

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[palehighway]

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[Glass_eye]

Thanks for the heads up

[Codeblue]

Somehow I have a feeling they're going to get a lot more money now.

[Glass_eye]

Damn, and I was hoping to buy it for 15 bucks.

[palehighway]

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[Codeblue]

You must have a lot of time on your hands to find a needle in a hay stack like that.

[Glass_eye]

normally i would have considered it a mislist on ebay, covented it and bought for a low price, i don't think the seller knows anything about the poster, or who jay ryan even is. I almost offered him a hundred bucks for it, but i couldn't rip off a children's charity at Christmas...i have enough people that hate me, i don't need to add Santa to the list.

You make a good point. If I had the cash I would pay more then the 250 the poster is worth with out it being signed by the Flaming Lps. I could see it going for 500 maybe even more. I don't know what kind of press they are giveing the piece outside of just putting it up on ebay. I would think someone out there besides the people on this site are talking about it.

[electrachrome]

this auction is run by a central Ohio radio station, so I'm sure the auction is getting some press that way.
I am curious to see if a band signed poster will fetch more than a mint condition print. I'm sure there are rabid Flaming Lips fans who could run this up a bit. Personaly I would prefer a non-defaced poster over a band signed one, but I also have a good friend who allways tries to get the band to sign his posters....hmmm
what do y'all think? Is it worth more or less with the inscriptions?

[Bread8]

i don't see how it would detract from the print if the signatures are authentic, but that's just me.

(and i'm speaking hypthetically, not suggesting any of the charity auctions they've got have fake signatures)

[Codeblue]

I would much rather have a poster unsigned by the band. In fact, I won't buy a poster that I plan on framing if it is signed by the band.

[jbertsch]

I dislike posters signed on the image. When (and if) there is a border and the band signs there, I think it adds to the value.

[Flimby]

If a band signs it with some respect for the artwork, great, but random sigs all over the place do nothing for me.

[rhinomilk]

i don't know alot about jay ryan's work (& sorta new at collecting posters)... why does some of his older stuff go for insane prices while his new stuff does not get so much hype?

another example.. that fugazi one. it's real nice, but why is it so highly sought?

[Rev.Mike]

i don't know alot about jay ryan's work (& sorta new at collecting posters)... why does some of his older stuff go for insane prices while his new stuff does not get so much hype?

another example.. that fugazi one. it's real nice, but why is it so highly sought?

It's the gigposters.com effect. Not many people knew of him necessarily until he started getting brought up on gp a few years back, he had those fugazi posters forever allegedly, and sold them for like $5 a piece, and then the ball started rolling because his style is different from the norm and people genuinely dug hist stuff but hadn't been aware of it. The whole old vs. new is pretty supply and demand though, especially since the people who originally had his posters collected for the bands and not his art most likely, so they were either not cared for, or had no chance of rotating back into the secondary market anyway. Kind of like the original Horkey Andrew Bird. The fact that the bands on the sought after jay posters are good bands helps too. And Hum fans seem to be obsessive, the few that are out there. I saw them a few times in the early/mid nineties and they never differentiated themselves too much to me at the time, then I saw them on mtv a few years later, thought it strange, and now in the last few years I've found on the internet that the people who are into them are REALLY into them. Does that make any sense?