Man Who Paid $200,000 For Springsteen Lyrics Shocked To Realise He’d Bought A Notepad

The music memorabilia collector who paid over $200,000 for Bruce Springsteen's hand written Born To Run lyrics has revealed his dismay today at realising he'd bought a notepad - and a used one at that.

There had been much hype about the auction, but the eventual selling price far exceeded expectations.

“There was so much hype and he just got swept away,” a source close to the successful bidder told SPA Confidential today. “He didn't even think to check what he was bidding on. He's spent all his children's school fees on a notepad.”

The bidder is believed to be jubilant after winning the auction, but that joy quickly turned to despair.

“He assumed that for that amount of money he was throwing around he'd get something good – like a night on the town with Bruce or an extra role driving the bus in his next video clip. Even dinner for two at a three-star restaurant, or a copy of the new Lorde album signed by Bruce would have been good.”

The source added, “The bastard's used every page of the notepad already and the writing's so fucking atrocious that you can't read a bloody thing… There's no music notation, so it's no use for his kids to learn to play, he can't loan it to mates, as it looks like it's going to fall to bits, and there's no pictures to rip out and stick on the fridge either.”

It is believed that with the notepad acquisition the bidder is amassing one of the world's most impressive music memorabilia collection. He is believed to already own an item of ABBA's bed-spread from their Australian tour, a tear from Nickleback's frontman Chad Kroeger and a collection of signed Tweets by Grinspoon's Phil Jamieson.