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The lucky fan who picked up Boards of Canada's mysterious Record Store Day vinyl is selling it on eBay - for thousands of dollars.
A self-described 'college kid' found the record at New York's Other Music and posted about it online, leading to a trail left by the band for fans to follow. However, he's now choosing to sell the record online, saying that he needs the money in order to move abroad.
The vinyl is described as 'one corner is just a lilllll bent, everything else is near mint' and the highest bid is, at the time of writing, $4,600 - with 70 bids and five days left on the auction.
Writing on the eBay description, he said, "When I found this record I was anticipating some sort of unreleased track, which excited me in an almost frightening way (its just music.. right?). So when I first played the record, needless to say, I was mystified, and in some ways disappointed, but that disappointment would soon disappear.
"What I got instead, the experience of calling out to the web and watching the internet and its many niche-communities rally to pick apart this puzzle, was something I still haven't fully wrapped my head around, but I am at any rate incredibly thankful to have been a part of this ...thing."
He continues, "Now, as much as this record means to me, I'm just a college kid getting ready to graduate and move abroad and am in serious need of money, thus, as hard as it is to let this record go nothing will erase the experience of pursuing the answer this record made me ask, and moreover the satisfaction of having that question answered by the hard work of my fellow nerds (new album, yay!).
"My thanks to the highest bidder for helping me start out on my own, and to the web community at large for making these last two weeks so incredibly memorable. new album June 10!!! hurray!"
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