{"id":798598,"date":"2019-08-16T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/someone-bought-billie-joe-armstrongs-van-by-accident-and-now-theyre-selling"},"modified":"2019-08-16T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:21:00","slug":"someone-bought-billie-joe-armstrongs-van-by-accident-and-now-theyre-selling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/someone-bought-billie-joe-armstrongs-van-by-accident-and-now-theyre-selling-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Bought Billie Joe Armstrong\u2019s Van By Accident, And Now They\u2019re Selling It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>It could be yours&#8230;but, like, deliberately.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/greenday_londono2_bengibson01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It could happen to any of us.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re messing around on an online auction site, press a random button by accident&#8230; and because no one else beats your bid, you <em>have<\/em> to buy something.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/celebrities\/115055910\/green-day-frontman-billie-joes-van-for-sale-on-trade-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> of New Zealand&#8217;s Graham van de&nbsp;Laar, the accidental purchase was nothing other than <strong>Green Day<\/strong> frontman Billie Joe Armstrong&#8217;s own vintage surf van&#8230; which Graham is now selling himself on the same site!<\/p>\n<p>The van <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\/motors\/used-cars\/chevrolet\/auction-2272876700.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">features<\/a> custom GRNDAY license plates, and Billie Joe&#8217;s signature on the glove box. It looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/Billiejoevan1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/Billiejoevan2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the van, head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\/motors\/used-cars\/chevrolet\/auction-2272876700.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Just&#8230; watch where you click.<\/p>\n<p>Green Day recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/green-day-are-up-to-something\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> some&nbsp;mysterious teaser pics&nbsp;from inside the recording studio, suggesting that some new music could (hopefully) be on the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/someone-bought-billie-joe-armstrongs-van-by-accident-and-now-theyre-selling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be yours&#8230;but, like, deliberately.&nbsp; It could happen to any of us. You&#8217;re messing around on an online auction site, press a random button by accident&#8230; and because no one else beats your bid, you have to buy something. In the case of New Zealand&#8217;s Graham van de&nbsp;Laar, the accidental purchase was nothing other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 03:02:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}