michael jackson. o rly?

brittlebloodbrittleblood
edited July 2009 in General
this is an unusual phenomena.

go back to the mid-late 80s when he was selling hotcakes all the time...and then walk into a record store and you'd find an incredible amount of 2nd sale michael jackson records. i think elton john was his closest rival.

fast forward to today...where are all these recent sales of michael jackson mp3's going to end up?

Comments

  • BillyjoebobBillyjoebob
    Start searching Craigslist for the latest collectible mp3's by MJ.
    How many copies of Thriller were made? 80 million?
    Someone on the Fort Hood list had it "make an offer"
  • CaptainWrongCaptainWrong
    I used to work at Half Price Books. Went back to my old store a couple days after the MJ story broke and they had a nice little display of all the Jackson related LPs they'd fished out of the $1 section and marked way up. I commented about this to one of my friends who still worked there and he told me they'd just sold a copy of Thriller that morning for $60! Unbelievable.
  • KatrinaKatrina
    Holy crap, I should get my butt up there to 1/2 Price and cash in, too.
  • TeleviperTeleviper
    Micheal Jackson records are worth money right now, and it's the only time they'll ever be worth money. Unless of course you have something like a sealed original pressing of Thriller. At least with Mp3s you don't have to wait for a premium priced reissue just to own a copy of the album.
  • KatrinaKatrina
    I was kidding - I'm pretty sure my copy is really scratched up.
  • TeleviperTeleviper
    edited July 2009
    Yah, I wasn't actually addressing your comment. I could have been more clear :)
    The thing is, they'd probably take it instead of saying... yah... we have a lot of those.

    In town there's a ritual where the local record store brings out the dollar bin. They spin records and you can pay a dollar to let the song continue playing, or have the record removed so that you can smash it over a mic stand. They usually end up selling a surprising number of albums.
  • brittlebloodbrittleblood
    yuz meen nerrfud can haz money$ fer smshng hiz bissie???
  • KatrinaKatrina
    Neriffid smash a BIS? Nevaire, au contraire!

    You're absolutley right about the timing, though, Televiper.
  • choiceweb0pen0choiceweb0pen0
    I bought the 25th anniversary Thriller around Halloween last year on MP3 from iTunes. It seemed like a steal, the album plus Thriller music video for around $5. I had the cassette as a kid, but got rid of most of my cassettes a few years ago, though sadly my car still has it's factory tape deck.
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