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i'm just a casual nirvana fan, but the ppl drawing conclusions about the auction of kurt cobain's cardigan to normalize auctioning of celeb "collectibles", and those saying ppl just "don't know how auctions work" are leaving out a lot of details
cobain passed away in 1994 and since then, there's been a steady string of ppl capitalizing off his memory by selling memorabilia, some that the family tried to stop, and a lot that is just in really poor taste - ppl trying to make a buck off his memory
ppl talking about the cardigan are leaving out the fact that it was originally auctioned in 2015 along with a lock of his hair, that was given to a dollmaker by cobain's widow, who commissioned a doll for their daughter https://www.loudersound.com/news/lock-of-cobain-s-hair-up-for-auction
tw // suicide
the signed insurance policy for the home he died in was also put up for auction, called "an incredibly rare piece of music history"
https://goldinauctions.com/1994_Kurt_D__Cobain_Full_Name_Signed___Dated_Insur-LOT64020.aspx
the signed insurance policy for the home he died in was also put up for auction, called "an incredibly rare piece of music history"
https://goldinauctions.com/1994_Kurt_D__Cobain_Full_Name_Signed___Dated_Insur-LOT64020.aspx
his credit card was auctioned https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/entertainment/feat-cobain-credit-card-sale
the guitar from his mtv unplugged set was auctioned despite the family trying to stop the sale https://pagesix.com/2020/05/11/kurt-cobains-unplugged-guitar-heading-to-auction/
cobain's high school art teacher tried to auction off his artwork and it was only stopped once the teacher was threatened with legal action https://nypost.com/1999/04/12/cobain-kin-ko-auction-of-his-celeb-drawings/
there's probably more examples, but these are a few. idk about all the ethics surrounding collectables & memorabilia, but as a human being, some of these don't sit right with me & feel disrespectful to his memory. celeb item auctions are common, doesn't mean they're always right
there's some really good comments in the quotes & replies about cobain's mindset as an artist and why auctioning his items like this runs so opposite to how he personally felt about celebrity culture & its place in larger society
all of these auctions were held after his death, so ofc he could not consent. celebs do consent to items for auction, often for charity causes. but for every item consented for auction, there are hundreds more personal items sold without their consent to the highest bidder
