would you pay $220,000.00 for a piece of ass?

if your answer is “what, are you fucking kidding me?” then how about the same amount for a piece of BACK?

…think i’m kidding?

a german collector (oh, those wacky germans!) struck an agreement with a swiss musician to purchase the back piece a belgian tattooist (that’s european unity if i’ve ever heard it!) did on him for $150,000 euros or $220,000 american. the piece is the virgin mary with a skull for her head…

…amazing what christian folk will pay for religous crap, eh?

the deal calls for the musician to display the piece three times a year (catch it in shanghai and singapore in the coming weeks) and then when he dies the german gets that chunk of his skin. this raised two questions for me:

1. does music boy have to provide his own transportation costs to and from said “gallery” showings?

and more curiously…

2. how young is the german or unhealthy is the swiss guy? i only ask ’cause said back piece is on the hide of a guy six years my JUNIOR.

that’s right – he’s only thirty-one.

seems like deutch boy will be waiting a while, don’t it? and what if swiss dude gets fat and distorts it? or dies in a flaming car crash and then it’s ruined? can german boy sue his next of kin?

just seems like a shitload of hassle all the way around. of course, if somebody offered be damn near a quarter mill for any of my ink post-mortem with some showings along the way i’d only have one question…

where do i sign?

shit, for that kinda money i’d show off the piercings, too…