What Stina artifacts did YOU buy lately?

[paulr]

Well, it has been years and years I started a topic, and since I did some recent eBay shopping on Stina, I'd decided to share the news (and happiness
of having some nice bargains)

- Little Star (US-promo 3 track CD single) w/ original + 2 B-zet remixed.
- People Are Strange (CD-R acetate 'Masterpiece Mastering') with regular tracks (note on track list: I Dream of Jeannie, which has an extra long track name (with the light brown hair). No idea if this item is genuine, but looks nice in my stina-drawer.
- Something Nice (regular 3 track CD-single) I was mistaken and thought i only had the promo release, now i have 3 copies of the single (..)
- Dynamite (10" vinyl) Some years ago it was almost impossible to find a 10" and was the 12" promo release easier to find, now it seems the other way around. Now i got 2 10"es
- And She Closed Her Eyes EPK-kit (Box with VHS tape, press release, Little Star EP) I never owned the complete kit (just the VHS tape), now I have the complete kit.
- Memories of A Color (Vinyl release)

So much for Stina hunting. Still hoping for the Jap version of People Are Strange (w/ bonus 3" CD) which i still don't have among some other rarities (not to mention the in-house CD-R of walking too fast / the thing about fire) What did y'all find recently, or are all collections complete?

[sound world]

I have a pretty big collection of Stina-related stuff by now.
My last big find was the Dynamite/This Time John video.
One thing I tried to find recently was a purported interview with Stina in a Japanese pop/rock magazine 'Rockin' On', which one of our members (noiser) mentioned back in about 2005. But it seems that there is no such interview in the mag in question-and luckily I didn't have to part with any money to discover that.
The last Stina thing I bought was a roughly A4 size picture from eBay, one of the outtake photos from the This Is photoshoot, where she's kicking up her boots in some city. Needless to say, when it arrived, it's just a page cut from a magazine, but it wasn't too expensive and is much higher resolution than any other version of it I've found online.

[RobB]

one of the outtake photos from the This Is photoshoot, where she's kicking up her boots in some city.

That would be New York Some City.

Havn't purchased anything by Stina for a long long time now. Long enough to have forgotten what it would have been anyway.

[Angie]

I think the last thing I bought was a copy of TWIS from sound world/Dave!

[sound world]

That must have been a long time ago because I don't remember it, Angie!

[RobB]

That must have been a long time ago because I don't remember it, Angie!

Do you mean sending Angie a copy or the album itself, Dave?

[Angie]

That must have been a long time ago because I don't remember it, Angie!

Well, I couldn't get it 'round these parts when it was released, so you sent one to me. Don't worry, I paid you!

[sound world]

I'm sure you did, Angie, I never doubted that. I have a vague memory of it now. I think I sold it because I'd bought another Japanese copy with the extra tracks on (remix/Failing to Fly)-which, ironically, eventually came out in the USA before it came out here (if indeed it ever did).

[RobB]

In the end I settled for the US promo cd-r for the album:

[paulr]

ah, yes… a truly nice item

[kuhn]

None. My last item however, was a Dynamite promo in a generic sleeve, but the music is identical to the commercial release so nothing special. Before that, no Stina release for years.

btw. everyone's favourite overpriced shop eil.com just sent me an e-mail, offering me to buy the insanely rare Pocket Universe vinyl.... for £195 !!!

[RobB]

btw. everyone's favourite overpriced shop eil.com just sent me an e-mail, offering me to buy the insanely rare Pocket Universe vinyl.... for £195 !!!

I've been deleting their emails unread for years now. Even before the age of the internet, their mail order prices were way overpriced.Its a wonder they can stay in business but I guess someone must pay their prices.

[sound world]

Clearly I've never bought anything from them-because I don't get emails from them. But they always seemed way overpriced. I have noticed a couple of similar shops (GEMM, Musicstack) making desperate attempts to attract buyers, as the CD age slowly dies.
£195... blimey. There again, I paid over £200 for a 7" classical EP made in Argentina a couple of years back. However, I think I have the only copy of it that anyone has ever known of for certain.

[RobB]

There again, I paid over £200 for a 7" classical EP made in Argentina a couple of years back. However, I think I have the only copy of it that anyone has ever known of for certain.

That sounds like a good investment to me.

[sound world]

Well, I just got hold of a rare version of Koop's 'Absolute Space' single with different artwork and photos-by Stina.
I knew it existed because Kuhn has one and put a pic of it up a few years ago.

The photos by Stina are different from any of the pics on the contemporary Koop album 'Sons of Koop' for which Stina also took the photos.