Talking of bands with 'Velvet' in the title (well we were, two stories back), a rare Velvet Underground acetate album has gone up for sale on eBay, and bidding has reached $120,300 dollars. The reason people are bidding silly amounts of money is because, the seller claims, it's the only surviving copy of the early version of the band's classic eponymous LP.
The seller is calling this "arguably the rarest and most important rock n' roll and pop artifact in the world". Which, I would argue, is overselling it a bit. But the bidders seem to agree, so there you go. If you want to read a great long spiel about what's on it and how it was discovered, or if you want to bid on it, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/yjslt6