'1987' - What the F***? Who the F*** ?

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May 1988
A full page ad in The Face offers the last five copies of the JAMs '1987' LP at an asking price of 1000 pounds. They have, thus far, sold three.

Thus telleth the booklet of 'The History of the JAMs a.k.a. the Timelords'.
Hm.
Well.
What, prey, was it then? Just another K-hoax? Or were there actually copies of '1987' sold for 1000 apiece? TO WHOM??

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

To a certain Messrs Drummond and Caughty I expect. Before burning a million quid, they were limbering up by burning three thousand quid. Not to mention, making an ironic art terrorist statement, zenlike in its ambiguity, naturally.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Damned if I understand.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a buddy who actually paid 180usd on ebay for a mint vinyl copy of 1987.

The record was only out for a day or two. The vast majority of the existing copies were destroyed due to a lawsuit with abba over the Dancing Queen sample.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

how do you pronounce "F***" anyway? does it have those swahili clicks in it?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as I'm aware, 'The Face' magazine bought one of them.

― tacit (tacit), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll sell you my copy for a thousand quid if you like. it has a scratch on side 2 that makes the needle jump half way thru "The Queen and I"

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a copy of this back in the day, and sold it to a friend for $40. Even though I could have made huge cash on this, I still don't regret it, because he liked it far more than I did.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

my perfect cassette copy of 1987 is buried deep in my archive. a glorious album. and the second lp was great fun aswell. but the fun factor was becoming far more serious.

but 1987 was on constant rotation. i duped the orig onto a backup and trashed the backup copy ..

arrhh the world of pre-cdr's ..

m.e

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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