Boards of Canada's Record Store Day vinyl sold on Ebay for $5700

As Boards of Canada prepare to release their much-anticipated Tomorrow’s Harvest LP on 10 June, the duo’s hype is being felt all over all the internet. One unsurprising place in particular – Ebay.

Last week saw a bidding war waged on the online auction site over a vinyl record that plays as a sort of Da Vinci Code scroll, revealing a code that first broke the news of the duo’s forthcoming release, their first in eight years.

The —— / —— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / —— 12-inch only runs for a matter of seconds, featuring static, noise and utterances of numbers, that hasn’t put bidders off though. The record has just gone for a whopping $5700, after 75 bids were cast.

The seller wrote the following explanation at why he was selling the rare item:

“When I found this record I was anticipating some sort of unreleased track, which excited me in an almost frightening way (its just music.. right?). So when I first played the record, needless to say, I was mystified, and in some ways disappointed, but that disappointment would soon disappear. What I got instead, the experience of calling out to the web and watching the internet and its many niche-communities rally to pick apart this puzzle, was something I still haven’t fully wrapped my head around, but I am at any rate incredibly thankful to have been a part of this …thing. Now, as much as this record means to me, I’m just a college kid getting ready to graduate and move abroad and am in serious need of money, thus, as hard as it is to let this record go nothing will erase the experience of pursuing the answer this record made me ask, and moreover the satisfaction of having that question answered by the hard work of my fellow nerds (new album, yay!). My thanks to the highest bidder for helping me start out on my own, and to the web community at large for making these last two weeks so incredibly memorable. new album June 10!!! hurray!”

While hardcore devotees may hash it out at the auctions, BOC’s new album will probably be more more satisfying and much less expensive, and there will also probably be more than one copy available.