I just discovered a copy of the picture sleeve of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" was recently offered at auction for $15,000.
Yikes.
Until now, I was feeling pretty good about having sold mine for $4,300 about 12 years ago.
"Street Fighting Man" is the rarest picture sleeve (paper envelope for a 45 rpm single) in the world. At last report, fewer than a dozen were known to exist.
I bought mine at a record store in downtown Indianapolis before London Records recalled them because of the supposedly inflammatory photo of cops beating antiwar demonstrators.
Hell, for all I know, this picture sleeve being offered for sale in Europe could have been mine. I sold my copy to a guy named Manfred in Austria.
I've still got about 500 pounds of vinyl albums up in the attic that will make the move to Arkansas.
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