I am thinking of putting in a bid for these myself. I am happy to share anything that isn't commercially available

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You made well over three hundred quid on these in the end. Nice work if you can get it, especially if they were just dumped into your lap from someone throwing them out.
I think it's a bit much to remind people of the auction when you're unlikely to post here again given you only registered last week to advertise your auction. Making a copy of the recordings and uploading them for us would, I'm sure, make us look upon you more favourably ;)

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 Bang on Eamonn. Just had a thought, maybe it could have been Scott bloody Frazer?????

I definitely don't have a problem either! Was good of whoever it was to let us know....

I think we're about to hear from Scott bloody Frazer!

Sturdy wrote:

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Just me who can't see a problem with this?

He put them on with a low starting price, no one was forced to bid megabucks for them (or at all, come to that). Would you rather not have heard about the auction at all?

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That's a fair point but I still think the follow-up post is a bit much when the person has already made us aware of the auction with hefty early bids having already been put in for the items. Makes it clear that they blatantly signed-up to the forum just to try and make as much money as possible from a captive audience. A free market is perfectly natural and we're not some kind of dummies as the man once (nearly) sung, I just thought it a bit cheeky.

And congrats Will for winning/buying them. They couldn't be in safer hands. 

Ian wrote:

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Sturdy wrote:

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Just me who can't see a problem with this?

He put them on with a low starting price, no one was forced to bid megabucks for them (or at all, come to that). Would you rather not have heard about the auction at all?

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I don't think that it's a problem signing up to the board just to advertise these.

I don't have time to constantly watch what rare Pulp items are appearing on eBay nowadays (I have a business and a life, thank you!). I am glad they were mentioned on here because I wasn't aware and may not have seen them otherwise. I can only echo Sturdy's points above.

What is of more concern, however, is that someone has had the decency to unleash some rare Pulp recordings (albeit for a price, which I think is justified given how rare these items actually are) and again it's caused one of these silly debates where fellow board-members (who have provided more rare recordings to us than you think) are being slagged off. You have only yourselves to thank for the rest of the "We Love Life" demos not being in circulation and if this guy has got another DAT, I wouldn't be surprised if he sold it privately.

We're all fans here, let's stick together!

Will - I am more than happy to donate some money to you when you share these.

-- Edited by Ian on Tuesday 4th of March 2014 09:59:21 PM

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Ian, I think you're making a lot of a differing opinion on a fairly minor subject. I was inquisitive/happy to see the opening post in this thread as it gave a glimpse into the TIH recordings that we didn't have before and  this 'borntolose' person starting an auction with no reserve of a rare primary source from those sessions is fair enough - my first reply suggests as much. I just thought the fact that the bids for each three items were already pretty high by the time the person posted again - (their only other post ever on here, there seemed little need to bump it to create more interest) - just struck me as a bit cheeky. I did add a smiley at the end of my post when suggesting he could also upload them - it's not as if I was asking for him to be banned from the forum. In fairness to the person, they also answered my question in that second post as to whether they worked on the sessions or not. And weed said he forgot to bid so maybe I misjudged the deep pockets/interest of regulars on here in buying the items.

As to your broader point, it strikes me as a bit odd on one thread you're saying how great both the old culture of swapping bootlegs with no cash exchanged was along with the modern way of people uploading them for free being more than acceptable now that you've got used to it whereas here you're praising a "fellow-board member" for registering just to flag an ebay auction of stuff that he knows we'll all swarm around. You see it as "decency to unleash some rare Pulp recordings" - it's not like it's being done as an act of kindness whereas the dozens of recordings the likes of Will, Stephen and I dare say even you in the past, have done for free. (Yes, they were digital as opposed to physical, one-off items as these but as I said before, offering to upload the recordings once the auction was over would have left a better taste all-round in my opinion).  

And the WLL-demos Trixygate saga was hardly the same - he/she was uploading unreleased songs (which, for me, will always trump alternate mixes of released stuff) for free, with nowt to gain from it, (in fact I think she mentioned something about the recordings being the possession of her brother's and she having to be careful not to get caught) and being pretty nice/naive about everything until people questioned her motives.