PHILADELPHIA — Antonio Valdés laughed when he was told last year that the Eagles players hoped their Christmas album would raise $30,000. The players simply wanted their vinyl record — which they feared might flop — to support a toy drive in the city, which is how they connected with Valdés.
“I was like ‘You do know you’re the Eagles, right? Right? This isn’t going to work out the way you think it is,’ ” said Valdés, the executive director of Children’s Crisis Treatment Center.
The album, printed on green vinyl and priced at $75 with the proceeds going to Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, sold out three times last month. A Philly Special Christmas became the region’s hottest holiday gift, topped the Billboard charts, sold for triple the price on eBay, and was far from being a flop.
