How'd they go from 62,000 albums sold and being dropped to selling out MSG?

The laws of supply and demand are fickle: Today's hot Beanie Baby or new Harry Potter book is tomorrow's yard sale fodder.

 

To teenage girls this summer, few things are hotter than the Jonas Brothers, three actual brothers from Wyckoff, N.J., who sing, play music and set hearts afire. Tickets for their concerts at Madison Square Garden this coming weekend are being scalped for $2,000 each, and the band is on the current cover of Rolling Stone.

And while there is no end of posters, pictures and articles about the Jonases (Joe, Nick and Kevin, for the uninitiated), there is a supply problem: The boys have only one album in stores, Jonas Brothers, which was released last year. Their next album will come out Tuesday.

 

This is where demand for their back list — such as it is — kicks in. In 2006, way back before Joe Jonas' picture graced lockers and bedroom walls across the land, he and his brothers recorded a limited-issue CD, It's About Time, with their former label, Columbia. Only 62,000 units were sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Today, this album is fetching $250 on Amazon.com, up from $145 a week ago. On eBay, successful bidders are routinely paying more than $200 a copy. The songs are not available on iTunes or other legal download services.

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 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/buzz/Entertainment/5931090.html

It's disgustingly unbelievable that so many people can fall for such an untalented publicity ham.  The bros were on So You Think You Can Dance last night.  They can barely play and their lyrics are banal tripe.  Are there really that many 14 year old girls out there paying $250 for a fake CD?

I have no idea who the Jonas Bros are.