AC/DC If You Want Blood UNPLAYED Dutch Splatter Colored Limited to 500 - one of the rarest off. AC/DC releases! Start Price USD 0.99 Current Price USD 1,009.00 Time Left 3 days 13 hours 5 minutes Bid Count 14 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, May 09, 2008 End Time Monday, May 19, 2008 Location Berlin See more about 'AC/DC If You Want Blood UNPLAYED Dutch Splatter Colored' Description SORRY I HAD TO END THIS AUCTION - PHOTOS OF ACTUAL ITEM TO FOLLOW SOON!!! - Here we go again!! You just don't see them any more especially in THIS condition: Finally a real gem from the personal collection of my father: The hyper-rare Dutch edition of AC/DCs vintage liveset "If You Want Blood....You've Got It". Released on Atlantic 50532 in 1978 the Dutch somehow thought it was a good idea to produce a VERY limited run of 500 copies on a crazy multicolored splatter vinyl that you simply have to see to believe. In fact this splashing of colors is so crazy that the label on Side One also caught some very light color spots next to the outer edges which looks really wild and is actually quite funny. Seems like someone had a lot of fun producing this thing! Best thing is the condition: My father stumbled over this back in 1979 in a recordshop in Cologne, bought it for the gimmick of the colored vinyl alone and never played it. This thing spend it's life as a virgin on my fathers shelf and is your chance to own a lovely copy of this rarity!  Condition:The cover:No writings, seamsplits or traces of price tags. The spine and the writing on it are fully intact without any splits. Of course you can see that the cover wasn't printed yesterday but those are ageing processes and I think you would have had to lock it in a safe to get a better copy. It grades as a STRONG Excellent!The labels:Apart from the color spots on the first side they are super clean with no spider marks around the spindle hole. Again: STRONG Excellent!The vinyl:As I said unplayed - no idea what the sound quality is like but I guess noone actually is going to LISTEN to this anyway, right?Matrix Numbers - both stamped!Side One: 50532 A 39C1Side Two: 50532 B 39C1As my father always took great care of vinyl records he took the record out of its innersleeve and put it in a polylinered innersleeve. I don't know what it tells me about my dad BUT amazingly the ORIGINAL innersleeve is also included but its really nothing special, in fact it is made from plain paper that most of us would have gladly thrown away three decades ago. No numbers, no anything except for the stunning fact that this thing is not completely square but has (factory)clipped corners.  But as some people ACTUALLY care about these things - here you go! Oh and the condition of it is also EXcellent!Remember: Back in 1978 there were 500 mint copies of this WORLDWIDE! Thirty years on: How much of 'em do you think are still in collectable condition? Don't forget that back in the day your average European AC/DC fan was not an audiophile with an enormous record colllection where everything was put neatly in protective sleeves and handled with great care and love but a (male) teenager who played the few albums he owned literally to death, took them to parties and looked at the covers so often, so hard and passionate that they were starting to disintegrate by 1981 - hahaha! But seriously: I think this is one of the best copies you can hope to find!  And remember: This one is MUCH rarer than the coloured HIGHWAY TO HELL!The extensive AC/DC collectors side www.acdccollector.com lists this under "AC/DC ULTRA RARITIES Here you will find the most valuable, rarest, hardest to find, and most sought after AC/DC collectibles in circulation" and values it approximately $1000 - not bad, eh?POSTAGE:To the USA 12 Dollar           UK  4 Pound           Germany: 4,50 Euros      Rest of Europe: 6,50 EurosEVERYBODY else....especially bidders from Australia: Ask for postage! On May-04-08 at 09:59:02 PDT, seller added the following information: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - Stop asking me if I'm willing to end this auction early!!! Let's play this game according to Ebay rules, OK??? Thanxxxxxxxx!On May-10-08 at 07:38:11 PDT, seller added the following information: All six pictures show the copy you are bidding for - what you see is what you get, there's nothing to hide!!!!!!! Place a Bid!