Wait’ll you see the porkpie. 
And it wasn’t a beret, dammit; it was a flat cap flipped around. A classic rock look, you philistine. Sigh.
I’ll bet you subscribe to Hat Aficionado magazine.
Heresy! Blasphemer!
It came with the last hat I got; so sue me. I like the pictures.
(No, ftr, I know of no such magazine.)
That…made me laugh out loud!
Resurrecting this zombie.
Yeah, I’m in an airport, and there was We Be Douchebags, uh, Guitar Aficionado at the newsstand, staring me in the face. Sigh; I bought one for the flight, but felt like tucking it inside my imaginary trenchcoat.
So am flipping through it - and there, in their auction report (they keep score on big guitar auctions). Turns out Irsay bought the Bob Dylan Newport electric guitar - the one recently found with the family of the pilot who was shuttling Dylan from the concert, and was featured on an episode of History Detectives. That went for $965,000. He also bought a somewhat-controversial* Les Paul-owned and modified Les Paul guitar for $335,000.
Man, it is good to be rich, I guess - at least neither of those guitars have battery compartments or weigh over 13 pounds 
*Les Paul (blessed be his name!!) was an inveterate tinkerer. No piece of gear was ever NOT modified, and Les had no qualms about banging stuff into place to make it fit. Absolutely nothing precious about his approach.
Anyway, this guitar WAS a main experimenter and player for him, but it was mostly just a body with some parts on it, in disrepair, when Les gave it (I think) to one of his main techs. The tech fixed it up and was looking to sell it - totally cool; more power to him and a good way to get some money.
But the auction house marketed it as something like “THE pivotal, ground zero electric guitar!!!” or something to that effect. Like it was the very first solidbody guitar that Les made himself. Firstly, while Les did construct his own solidbodies, most notably “The Log” made out of a hunk of 4x4 wood, but he didn’t design the Gibson Les Paul model; he provided input on some aspects of it (which Gibson got wrong, famously, when they set up the tailpiece incorrectly on the original 1952 versions - sigh). Secondly, Les boogered dozens upon dozens of guitar - yes, this happened to be one that he actually used a bunch. But there is no ONE guitar that is associated with Les, well, except maybe for The Log.
So a lot of guitar geeks clutched their pearls at how the auction was marketed. But hey, in this case, I hope the tech got a nice, large chunk of that money if Mr. Colts Commander wanted his Curator to add this acquisition to his stash of guitars.
I still get very Grr when I think about this stuff. I promise to get over it; there’s really no harm. But still…grrr.
Getting off my soapbox now. Thanks for letting me vent.
Reviving this thread on the Colts Commander Jim Irsay because he bought on of Prince’s Cloud guitars:
If I had ridiculous money…nah, I doubt I would do it. At least the guitar will be maintained by his team.
This, folks, is what happens to your possessions when you die without leaving a will.
I can’t believe that Prince would’ve wanted this guitar to end up in the hands of some entitled collector two months after he passed.
Irsay needs to get back in our collective good graces by displaying these guitars publicly; I guess the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would be the best place to do it.
Both geeks and douchebags believe this, because both geeks and douchebags are just being themselves.
And, in practice, the distinction is merely this: I am a geek. All of the rest of you are douchebags. :eek:
There isn’t much use in arguing, and there is always a kernel of truth to stuff like this 
On guitar boards, there is a constant stream of hand-wringing threads about being Players vs. Collectors.
My dismissive tone regarding Irsay in this old thread was more about how GAficionado was portraying him as a rich doofus. As I said upthread there are big collectors and celebrity collectors who seem to know their stuff and build their collections accordingly.