Best NO/related purchases ever...

What was the best deal you ever got on a NO/related item?

I got Late at Night (unreleased UK version) CD1+2 and Promo for £16 at Leeds 2000. Beat that!

Easy.

My mum wrote to Factory records when I was knee-high to a grasshopping unit and they sent her a gold Factory records badge for free!!! - I wore that badge with pride the day the music died (when Factory collapsed).

I got 'Way of Life' US 12" for 50p too. I also bought Hooky for £17.29 and a can of Stella. He sits in the corner of my room playing the LWTUA riff over and over. I let him out to do gigs occasionally.

You know, Major, that image nearly caused me to have a stroke from laughing.

I can't bear it. I may have to go home sick.

Can you sue me if you have a stroke from laughing? I hope not. I might have to sell Hooky to pay for my court case.

"ONE MIDDLE-AGED BASS PLAYER FOR SALE. SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT. GOOD FOR ANOTHER 2000 RIFFS. COMES WITH FREE ATTITUDE AND BASS GUITAR. £20 + 2 CANS OF STELLA O.N.O"

Stop, please stop. You should be arrested if not sued, Major.

OK, i'm done. Sorry for any injuries caused.

It's too late; the damage is done; the words I will never be able to forget: "I also bought Hooky for 17.29..."

I don't know why i added that, i was being quite sensible up to that point. Oh well.....

I would like to announce my new signature:

It's called divine (or maybe demonic) inspiration. Definitely immortal words.

I'll sell you Simon Gallup for 50p

50p? rip-off! I could get 3 members of 'Kajagoogoo' for that price!

At that price I would shop around

Major, my recommendation would be that you include the "also"; I think that is an important part of the picture. You know, Hooky wasn't the main thing you bought.

I still break into uncontrollable laughter every time I read that. It's criminal. You should be ashamed. I should be ashamed. I am ashamed. I am very ashamed.

Nothing to be ashamed of. I guffawed loudly as well.

Well, if you think that was weird......check this. In 1988, at a Factory Records - related ephemera auction, I managed to get hold of three plastic /fibreglass blancmanges on plates each standing about 1 foot high, plus a similar fibreglass meat pie on a plate - about the same size. I was baffled initially as to the significance of these items until I realised : then it hit me - they were clever cryptic representations of the four members of New Order themselves: The three blancmanges are Barney, Steven and Gillian. The meat pie, of course, was Hooky!!! To add the icing on the cake (or the pie, if you like) the "Hooky" pie had two viking horns sticking out of the "pastry" lid....and if that doesn't speak volumes then I don't know what does!. Consequently these four items have been rendered by myself in 2-D Andy Warhol-style pop-art and they've adorned my bedroom studio ever since: Indeed, my 1994 CD compilation : New Order Dirty Dozen - an entry I submitted for a competition in "SELECT" magazine to win an exclusive one-off signed New Order CD compilation of your own chosen 12 fave tracks (a few of you folks may recall and testify to this I'm sure)- features the four images on the front sleeve design.
How's that for sheer oddity??

I actually cannot remember the last time I laughed this much.

By popular demand I have changed my signature. So if Hooky is worth £17.29 (excluding the cans of Stella for sake of sanity), how much are the rest of the band worth?

Somehow the effect is just not the same with the other members of the band, except maybe Barney.

A good price for Barney might be 9.99. I don't think my keyboard can do the symbol for pounds.

I suppose the best "deal" I ever got was when me and two mates - collectively known at the time (1987) as The Singing Curtains - went to Factory's old offices on Palatine Road to give them a demo tape of our painstaking, not to say painful, efforts.

We went into the offices - chaotic as you would expect - and the sound that greeted us was the as-yet-unreleased TBTHOG on the turntable. We gave them the tape, chatted for a while and they gave us loads of ace Fac posters - yes I know they were probably dying to get rid of them.

We asked what wasa happening with the Stockholm Monsters only to have our world torn apart by the news that the singer was "inside" as they say.

I think it was Alan Wise we spoke to ( although my memory may have made that bit up ) and a very friendly young lady.

All in all - a crap demo in exchange for an exclusive airing of NO material, inside info on the monsters and Factory freebies - a good swap I'd say. Noel Edmonds and Posh Paws eat your heart out

Huntsy, have you read this thread? Did you at all share my reaction to Major's contribution?

hey, not everyone appreciates genius!

I had trouble getting to sleep last night because I was still laughing about this.

Would you look at that... I turn my feet for only a couple of hours and miss-out on a gang load of gags-a-plenty. I like the blamange anecdote.... blimey, there's loads in here.

Nice to see I'm not the only mouse with the courage to post trifle.

Originally posted by Huntsman Would you look at that... I turn my feet for only a couple of hours and miss-out on a gang load of gags-a-plenty. I like the blamange anecdote.... blimey, there's loads in here.Nice to see I'm not the only mouse with the courage to post trifle.

Makes a nice change from the crisps eh, Huntsy? Seriously though....so intrigued by that as I anticipate most of the readers here will be...I'm looking at a way of getting this CD sleeve image /artwork uploaded so everyone can have a piece of the action..... here's hoping

i found a few 7"s yesterday. State of the nation w/ Shame on the flip. Hooky interview picture disc (15min interview circa 83 but no date listed) and World In Motion....all on 7". Last month i bought Perfect Kiss 12" and Confusion 83 12" for $4 each (approximately). While in London in 94, i bought a Ruined In A Day T-shirt for 3pounds near Picadilly Circus.