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sunnuntai 20. tammikuuta 2013

List of people who own The Fame USB edition


Besides in CD and LP, Lady Gaga's first album The Fame was also released in USB form. A fact not known to even all Little Monsters. This little piece of art is a USB stick formed into shape of Lady Gaga. It's really fun, containing the album songs, music videos and digital single cover pictures etc.
It's also hyper rare collectable object.
No one knows for sure how many of these are made, and it's not sure where they were sold, or if they were sold at all. It's possible that it's a promo item, made only a bunch, and somehow spread through internet auctions when people who got them at first wanted money out of them, since Gaga became hyper famous.
It does have a barcode though, 602527035529, and it's released either May 7, July 7 or November 6 2009, so possibly it has been sold, but to how many? And for what price?
To know the amount of copies produced and the original selling price would help to define the value of this object. And I would very much like to know it, since I have it myself, although I'm not selling it. There is one comment saying that 63 € was the price of it, but that was possibly referring to Ebay.
Gagavision says there was a competition arranged in 2009 by Universal Music Mexico, in which The Fame USB was the prize, but it was only in held Mexico and Argentina.

I'm very interested about how many of these exist, and I've collected some info I could find on the internet. From somewhere I read that The Fame USB albums could range between tens and hundreds. I had the idea that there were 100 of them, but I can't remember where I got that info. Youtube user "IagoGermanotta" says there's 100 of them. "MyGagaGraphy" says in his blog that there is 250 of them. So between tens and 250 perhaps, but most probably one hundred.
"KayJay" says it was sold out in 24 hours of it's release, which seems easy to believe.

People who own The Fame USB album:

Sire Sasa Helsinki, Finland
Mathieu Deflem USA
Nick UK
Kevin Germany, possibly Berlin
Stéphanie Belgium. She had it but sold it to someone for 440 €.
GagaMania UK. Signed by Gaga
LadyGagaItalianCollector Italy, possibly Rome
Some Mexican Guadalajara, Mexico, selling it for $1200
xtaticboyz Madrid, Spain
Gaga Collector BR Brazil
IagoGermanotta Brazil
neta-lee Israel
KayJay may have it

18 members of Discogs have this:
andorepa
bigoudin Paris, France
Chipeur-30 Nîmes, France
dimitriam2010
DjangoSG93
glennv1w1
JUDY87
justilicious Justin aka Camille Towe, Los Angeles/Hollywood, USA
lamoreox1
morganmorison
MrGermanotta
Pyanga
retro-dance-freak
ric21000
ron92
stephaniemusic probably the same Stéphanie as above
vince_martin888
1 private

Ebay user gevsgarage818 sells these, he has many of them, even though he puts only one at a time in Ebay. I bought mine from him, and hi's still selling them. The price has grown to sick $600!
The last ones he's sold are in October 24 for $415, and November 26 for $455.

Also Ebayer kyliekrazy sells one. Her price is $550, but the listing of the item is ended, since no one has bought it yet. But I'm sure the item will be relisted until it's sold.

So, at least 34 The Fame USB albums exist. If you know more, please let me know.

lauantai 19. tammikuuta 2013

List of people who own The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition


Exactly what the title says. There are 10 000 copies of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition made, all numbered. I've collected all the people which I know to own this collector's item, and with numbers they have. Including myself of course.

In numerical order. The lower the number, the more valuable the object, at least in theory. Unknown number of the copies have Lady Gaga's signature inside them. I guess there's 100 to 1000 copies with the autograph, the lower number seaming more reasonable. All the Super Deluxe Editions also have a small piece of hair, said to be from Lady Gaga's own hair. This is unfortunately not true, they are from Her Candy Warhol wig. And that is not entirely true either, they can't be all from one single wig. There's about 100 strands of hair in each set, and a human head has about 100 000 single hairs. If the wig has as much hair as a real human head, then there has had to be 10 wigs. So they could not even all be from a wig which Lady Gaga have used. Sorry to disappoint you. But you can't know which hair are from a wig She has used, so you can always think the strands you have are from it. Or maybe She has ten of each wig, She's Gaga for Her sake!

There's also fake versions sold around internet. Fake ones are made in China, sold probably with a cheaper price than the real ones, and their real value is worthless, since they are not authentic. Collectors should only collect authentic, official releases and try to avoid pirate copies, unofficial releases, bootlegs etc. But if you don't care about the value, only the thing that you have it, then you could get this with a lower price than the real one. But beware, the quality can be lower, I've seen pages falling of the book of the fake version. Also you should never give money to fake product sellers. The Fame Monster Super Deluxe fake copies can be identified by two things. They have misspelled Lovegame in the back cover listing the songs, it's written "Lovegane". The other thing is that they all have the same number, since they are made after one original copy, the number is 8688. It is fairly certain that all copies with this number are fakes, since the original number 8688 is owned by someone who makes the copies in China.

There's still another version, unnumbered promo edition. These are probably made only 100 copies, since they are not meant for sale, only for testing. That's why their barcode is strikethrough with black marker. This, and the thing that they don't have a number at all, can be used to detect a promo edition. They also have the pictures of the book in different order than the numbered edition. These are really hard to find, because they are 100 times more rare than the numbered product, and probably people will ask much higher price of them in internet auctions. Although the value of the promo edition is not certain, since they are not meant for sale at first place, and the promo editions sold in internet could be stolen. Also they are not part of the official "collection" of 10 000 copies made of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition, which should make them less valuable. And they can't have Lady Gaga's signature in them.

I've included to this list of people links to their Youtube channels, blogs or Ebay accounts. Also added are prices what they paid for their copy of the product, when this is known.

Owners of the fake version, #8688:

Alex Youngblood-Germanotta
Cody Butler
Youwereborntobebrave £250
ladygagaaddict1
gagafan212
elliott28lg £30
Mathieu Deflem

Owners of the promo version (probably 100 copies), unnumbered:

dbarranc $133
littlemonstertyrese $200
danielthevampire93
Mathieu Deflem
Dimitri
coolcman1 $100

Owners of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition, 10 000 copies:

TheGaGaProject #00001, surprisingly not signed by Gaga, located in New Zealand
Joseph N. #00069
Mathieu Deflem #00089
GaGaFan00011 #00155
StephGaGax3 #00350
PepeSpiceBoy #01579
DingziUndPumzi #02287
Cornelis Sales (littlecookiemonster) #02520, #07265
Yússef Adlany #02632
Dylan Groundland #02773
Clarinha980 #03051
yongjie1997 #03602, $109
lesleyluvsjoe #03716
MyPainLoveHeart #04073
SireSasa #04656, $190
Discoboy #04793
BloggingNickster Nickster #05060
Allison Koner #05601
Axel #05682
TheJLTv #05983, $90
XSims3LoliFreakzX #06288
CanetaHidrocor #06881
iamthefamemonsterr #06931
Nick #07054
Reno #07077, signed by Gaga, but on the cover, so not originally signed
Reno unknown number
diamante12355 #07287
ElectricChapel18 #07509
ohsnapitszach #07570, $63
Amykinga01 #08001
Stéphanie #08016
ConnorWubbenhorst #08756

#08846
TheFatherFame #08848
GovermentHookerTV #08979
86Artproject #09011, $150
WLOVideos #09048
LadyGagaIsGod318 #09886
Johrel Mowen #09917
CirqueDeEliaoko #09999