Not sure if this counts, but this pair of watches (A Lange & Sohne Luna Mundi):
http://www.thepurists.com/watch/features/alexg/langeluna/
Was issued in an edition of 101 pairs for $53,000 a set. One watch had Big Dipper - the other the southern cross. The moon phase goes one way in one hemisphere & the opposite way in the other. I doubt most people would wear more than one of them, but who knows.
Guitars built as Limited Editions, e.g., reproductions of Clapton’s Blackie ($25,000) or Van Halen’s Frankenstein ($30,000). What’s funny is that Blackie was pieced together from the parts of three guitars that cost Clapton ~$100 each, and Frankenstein was built from castoff parts (I think he got the body at a discount because it was a 2nd) and painted with Schwinn bicycle paint.
I hate the concept - and the fact that they are well-made custom-built guitars marketed and priced to go on a wall. Grr.
Back in about 1989 or '90, I walked into my local record store (Vinyl Fever in Tallahassee, FL) and ordered a copy of MMM on CD. It was only being produced by a French company, MPO, so it cost me like $30 and everyone in the store thought I was insane. I still have it. Love that album. To be fair, tho, Neil Young (& Crazy Horse) did it better with the Arc portion of the Arc-Weld album. And Japanese artist Null really knocked it out of the park with Sonicfuck U.S.A..
I’m a stamp collector and this is particularly true for African countries. Many of them feature American movie stars and musicians (living or dead) because they know there will be a demand for them in international philatelic communities, but virtually none for them at home–and every stamp that a postal service issues but doesn’t have to process is pure profit. Same goes for Disney stamps and royal family stamps, which are everywhere, too.
Well, of course he did. But does it sound like Satan under a lawn mower? 
Sir, your tastes are impressively catholic - I can handle about 1 minute of MMM before I say “I get it, but…enough.” But, then again, I edited out the first minute of Gang of Four’s Love is like Anthrax so I can play it without driving other listeners crazy.
Nah, that’s my schtick. 
WHAT??? That’s the 2nd best part of the song! It makes the drums totally rock, the way they just come bursting thru the crust of that feedback! Plus you get that nifty 4 note stinger before the drums… and it just MAKES the bass line the focus of the song!
(FTR, the best part of the song is the interplay of the different vocal lines.)
What are you gonna tell me next, that you turn off the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams when Starship comes on? That’s crazy talk!
No, sorry - I left the last 15-20 seconds of the feedback for sufficient set up (to my mind) - and yeah, that drum blast is one of the best ever. The twin vocals are perfect…
Okay, I’ll make a confession here so that we both have ammo against each other, brother WordMan: I detest the spoken intro to Stop! by Jane’s Addiction and long ago edited it out. Purists be damned! 
Lots of “action figures” are made just for collectors.
What kid wants to play with George Lucas in a storm trooper outfit?
Blasphemy! Perhaps there is a thread here: What Parts Do You Skip?
I also edited out Mike Ness’s spoken intro to Prison Bound off Live at the Roxy; I cut out the profanity so my kids can listen, and the talky parts get old anyway…but that version is THE definitive. Like Cheap Trick’s Budokan stuff vs. their studio equivalents…
They tend to have more detailed paint jobs, and maybe rubber wheels instead of plastic, but that’s about it.
Things still get released for the Atari 2600.
The closest thing I can think of is that the introduction to House of Leaves indicates that an edition that’s partly printed in braille would be considered the perfect canon version, but afaik doesn’t yet physically exist.
I’d say all the old vinyl picture discs fall into this category. You could play them if you wanted to, but the picture on them made them sound like shit. Then if you played it enough the picture would start to wear off.
My friends the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band released their album of Charlie Patton covers Peyton on Patton on both mono LP and 10" 78 RPM record. No idea if it was on vinyl or shellac. Both came with links to a digital download of the songs. Even people with turntables rarely have ones that can play 78 RPM.
Now that you mention it, even CDs are heading this way. The last few CDs I bought are still in their shrink-wrap. They came with a digital download, and that’s what I listen to. I’m not really a collector, but I have every other album by that band on CD and didn’t want a gap.
Never heard of that happening. All the picture discs I’ve seen were a sandwich of clear vinyl with a printed paper filling.
The only picture disc I’ve got is this Lily Allen record, which is clearly painted onto the record itself. And yeah it doesn’t sound good, way too muddy. Picture’s cute though.
Most people don’t buy PEZ because they like the candies.
At a doll store near where I live, there are Buffy The Vampire Slayer dolls. Buffy viewers tend to be past doll-playing age. There are also Mulder and Scully dolls.
