No one's buying Kurt Cobain's childhood home, so it's back on the market

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Brian Anthony Hernandez
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Kurt Cobain's childhood home has been re-listed at $400,000 this week -- down from its $500,000 price tag 18 months ago.

The updated listing for Cobain's former home in Aberdeen, Washington, describes the sale as "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of rock history." It adds that the building can be moved and used as part of a "larger institution or private collection."

Cobain's mother originally put the bungalow on the market in 2013 for $500,000, even though it was assessed at less than $67,000 at the time. With no firm buyers since then, Aberdeen Realty slashed the price this week.

The structure is moveable, but the home's broker hopes it stays put.

"I think it will make a great museum," Aberdeen Realty broker Nancy Taylor told Mashable. "People come and take pictures of it all of the time, so I hope to keep the house in Aberdeen."

Taylor added that local people are interested in turning it into a museum. "We have someone that has been working with city officials," she said.

The purchase will include furniture from when Cobain lived there on and off as a child and teenager. It also will reportedly come with preserved decorations, Cobain's wall drawings and a hole he punched in a wall, Reuters reported.

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Cobain, the frontman of pioneering grunge rock band Nirvana and voice on such hits as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come as You Are," fatally shot himself in the head with a shotgun in 1994 at his Seattle, Washington, home when he was 27 years old.

Twenty years later in 2014, Nirvana entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony in New York City, where surviving members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear played some hits with help from singers Joan Jett, Lorde, St. Vincent and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon.

BONUS: 7 Emotional Moments From Nirvana's Hall of Fame Induction

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