--- title: Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card description: It's up for auction on a website canonical: https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-20T19:59:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:35:39.373Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card og:description: It's up for auction on a website og:url: https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd87074ffd45e8ed/69878051524fc0bcaedec93f/85238138-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kurt Cobain is recording in Hilversum Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1991. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card twitter:description: It's up for auction on a website twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd87074ffd45e8ed/69878051524fc0bcaedec93f/85238138-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Feb 20, 2015 7:59 PM UTC  Kurt Cobain is recording in Hilversum Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1991. Kurt Cobain is recording in Hilversum Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1991.Michel Linssen—Getty Images by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Feb 20, 2015 7:59 PM UTC Expired credit cards usually end up cut up and thrown in the trash—but not Kurt Cobain’s: The late Nirvana frontman’s Visa is up for auction on [the Paddle8 website](http://paddle8.com/about) as part of their collection “Legendary: Memorabilia from Rock Gods & Pop Stars.” It’s expected to get between $7,000 and $9,000—one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, indeed. Frank Sinatra’s 1944 driver’s license is also up for grabs with a starting bid of $6,500, with other offerings including a signed copy of Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_ LP, a U2 setlist, and a Led Zeppelin concert poster from 1971\. [The auction](http://paddle8.com/about) closes Feb. 26. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/18/kurt-cobain-credit-card) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/"},"headline":"Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card","datePublished":"2015-02-20T19:59:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:35:39.373Z","description":"It's up for auction on a website","url":"https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/","keywords":["Music","Kurt Cobain"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd87074ffd45e8ed/69878051524fc0bcaedec93f/85238138-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd87074ffd45e8ed/69878051524fc0bcaedec93f/85238138-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kurt Cobain is recording in Hilversum Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1991.","caption":"Kurt Cobain is recording in Hilversum Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on Nov. 25, 1991.","creditText":"Michel Linssen—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3717101/kurt-cobain-credit-card-auction/","name":"Here's Your Chance to Buy Kurt Cobain's Credit Card"}}]}] ```