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Handwritten Nirvana Setlist Goes for $10K

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Sorry.  Squirt the Puppy is insisting on sitting on the desk this morning so she can try her hand at typing.

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Where was I?  Right.  A scrap of paper.

This Nirvana setlist featuring song titles scrawled out in Sharpie by Dave Grohl before a 1991 show in Glasgow just sold for £5,625 (about $10K CAD) at a recent auction in the UK.  Two telephone bidders drove the price up to crazy levels.  

Amazing how something that would usually be balled up and binned following the gig could become so valuable, innit? (Via Alt Press)

Nirvana set list Glasgow 1991

 

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