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Could have sworn I'd seen interviews/articles before about how this person doesn't care and uses it to brag to his friends.

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That's certainly possible - the article quotes him from a few years ago talking about how it's been a positive experience that opened doors for him.

We all process things differently, but making a joke of something that hurts is a VERY common way of dealing.

Idk if his claims of trauma are real or not, but I'll tell you what - that image was worth more than the ~$200 his parents got for it and on those grounds alone I'd award him a few hundred thousand.

You'd wish the courts to bail out anybody that ever made a deal that turned out not so great?

I mean yeah pretty much. We live in a world where you could sell a painting at a garage sale for $1 and someone could turn around and sell it for $10,000 the next day. That’s not any more “right” than a world where you morally and legally had to share any profits with where you bought it. I’d like to live in the more fair less cutthroat world thanks

Why do you think it would be worth more than $200? People bought the album for the music, not the cover. And even if the art might be worth more, wouldn’t it be the photographer who made the image that deserved it? Any other baby could substitute, and it would be essentially the same image. What unique quality did this particular baby contribute?

I don't know how old you are, but having been a child/teen in that era - that album cover was ICONIC. Nirvana had other albums that were very successful, but those albums' cover art was never as ubiquitous as Nevermind. Heck, a small cut of poster sales alone would probably net this guy a few hundred k.

I'm previous generation from you (OK boomer!) but I bought the cd as soon as I saw the video for "smells like teen spirit". That album, Alice in chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, all just as good as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, the music I grew up with. They all had some iconic album covers, but I'm really not sure the cover has much to do with how many albums sell. Look at the Beatles white album, or Metallica's black album.

Agreed, it was chuckle worthy and made a point. But had zero to do with why I wanted it.

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