Sold Date: May 6, 2024
Start Date: February 14, 2024
Final Price: $468.00 (USD)
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The 1975's I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It.
Signed by all four members of the band and in wonderful condition. It plays beautifully, and there is a special message etched into one of the vinyls. Yes, this is a used item; it has been loved and yet at the same time not given enough attention. The records sound flawless.
That's about it for the specifics. The rest of this is just going to be self indulgent... I got this record signed at their Pittsburgh concert on 1 November 2016. My first time in that city, having driven for hours across an entire state, completely mesmerized by this band the summer after dropping out of high school. They were quite literally my everything, and to this day the most intense hyper fixation I've ever had.
That concert wrecked me, it was so good (and yes: I got barricade). It feels like both a bragging right and a guilty secret to have been so immersed in The 1975's world during that time. It was such a universe of adolescence when so much revolved around them. Feeling like the epitome of youth: my scrapbook, Walkman, their music, the physicality of those listening formats, letters written and never delivered, my old Firefox bookmarks and memes... Obsession feels like an understatement; I think during certain times in life, especially teenage hood, clinging so hard to a medium that you begin to orbit its existence is just a necessary coping mechanism for the next stage of one's journey.
I have so many mixed emotions as an adult now. IYKYK-- that was truly an era if there ever was one. I don't care if I sound gauche. The symbolism of giving an album away that used to be my closest form of religion... Truly, truly, I want and need someone to buy this that will love it to pieces (while respecting its physical integrity;). And please don't play it on a modern-day Crosley record player: it Will get ruined.
$500 is not nothing, I know. Recently I've become unemployed, and if I'm being honest, it was hard to put a price on this, even if I hadn't played it in years (realistically, it's been played a minimal amount of times because I was so scared of something happening to it). I'd be so, so grateful if this was not only bought yet went to a loving home. I hope that paying so much money would mean that individual is dedicated to the care of this album, or at least has fallen in love with The 1975's music like I did. Just because I don't have the same relationship with this record as I once did, doesn't mean I don't want someone else to.
It's okay if you don't buy the album. I just couldn't not express some of my feelings surrounding it and post the listing as if it had meant nothing to me, like some money grab... I know this probably seems like one of those novels that comes before someone's recipe, yet at least I put the relevant details up top;)
I think, in the end, this album and art in general represents how much power the people have. Nothing means anything if there isn't compassion to accompany it. That rat or whatever it was in Chicago probably didn't have the intention of inspiring gay weddings with its imprint, and yet it sparked something among its community... If you care about something, that is all the value and validity needed in the world right there. My words will take on a greater meaning if I add something positive to the universe of another, and that right there is a blessing I am more than appreciative for. So to whoever reads this: thank you. Be well and may luck be on your side<3