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Photo by Victoria Renard

Thirty bids and $300 later, a piece of sexy fabric that touched Neko Case's OMG! naked OMG! body has found a home-- and unless your eBay user name is hack7270, it's not your home.

As previously reported, the corset-- which Case once donned for a Sympathy for the Record Industry pin-up calendar shoot and apparently wore often thereafter-- was put up for auction by shoot photographer, Case pal, and original/current garment owner Victoria Renard, with some proceeds benefiting Greyt Expectations Greyhound Rescue.

"The Secret Weapon", as Case and Renard deemed it, allegedly makes you "look hot in or out of your clothing" and "mysteriously attract[s] members of the opposite sex." Please seduce responsibly, hack7270.

This just in: Rufus Wainwright will not be imagining what Neko's got on underneath as the two hit the road together this summer.

Neko Case:

07-19 Pittsburgh, PA - Byham Theater *
07-20 New York, NY - Central Park Summer Stage
07-21 Greenfield, MA - Greenfield Community College (Green River Festival)
08-09 Kansas City, MO - Voodoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino #
08-10 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre #
08-11 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q #
08-13 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle #
08-14 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium #
08-15 Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion #
08-16 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
08-17 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for the Performing Arts
08-18 Mansfield, MA - Download Festival
09-02 Marquette, MI - Ellwood Mattson Lower Harbor Park
09-03 Detroit, MI - Detroit International Jazz Festival
11-16 Los Angeles, CA - Walt Disney Concert Hall

* with Eric Bachmann
# with Rufus Wainwright, A Fine Frenzy