Collectors (Other Passions of a Connoisseur)

[Brow]

I definitely have an obsessive collector mentality, and I collect lots of things like books , CDs, Blu-rays, guitar magazines.... I do like "complete sets".  :roll:

If I decide I like an author, director or artist I often find myself in a "campaign" of acquiring absolutely everything they've ever done.  Then I forget about them for a few years, until I find they've done something new, at which point I obsessively acquire all the new stuff.  And so it goes.

I'm the same with DVDs, Magazines and books  :lol:

[Afghan Dave]

I definitely have an obsessive collector mentality, and I collect lots of things like books , CDs, Blu-rays, guitar magazines.... I do like "complete sets".  :roll:

Me too!

Though I'm often harsh on Philly's procrastination, I think it's because we're cut from the same cloth...  :?

He just has a deeper wallet and bigger bedroom.  :(

[Philly Q]

Though I'm often harsh on Philly's procrastination, I think it's because we're cut from the same cloth...  :?

Hurrah!  That's cheered me up.  :lol:


But I doubt my bedroom is bigger (except maybe in a Tardis-like, non-Euclidean geometry kind of way). 

I imagine yours probably has more, and bigger, furniture....?

[TheyCallMeVolume]

I do collect Bandshirts. I have one from nearly every band / artist I went to see live (some times multiple) and some more. I stopped counting when I reached 100 shirts...have gotten several since that. On the downside my closet is overflowing....on the plus side I rarely have to wash shirts! xD

I also collect concert memorabilia. I have every ticket I ever had on my wall with things like setlists, drumsticks and picks pinned on there too. Everything I managed to snatch (nothing bought). Everything autographed where I was able to get one. The ones I charish most are my two Mike Portnoy drumsticks (one with Adrenaline Mob one with Flying Colors), my Vinnie Paul stick (ex Pantera) and my Steve Vai setlist.

What other stuff do you have?

[Afghan Dave]

Though I'm often harsh on Philly's procrastination, I think it's because we're cut from the same cloth...  :?

Hurrah!  That's cheered me up.  :lol:


But I doubt my bedroom is bigger (except maybe in a Tardis-like, non-Euclidean geometry kind of way). 

I imagine yours probably has more, and bigger, furniture....?

 :D

I'd give my back teeth for a bedroom like that one in Paisley Park but sadly this is more accurate...  :(

[juansolo]

Cars... It's a tad more expensive than guitars and, being sensible I'm down to 3 at the moment:

The Barge
The Pork
The Juno

Sold The Bathtub recently as I wasn't using it enough. Miss that car so much.

It's only that I'm limited in storage that I don't have loads of the things.

Oh and films. I have lots and lots of films.

[Kiichi]

I do collect Bandshirts. I have one from nearly every band / artist I went to see live (some times multiple) and some more. I stopped counting when I reached 100 shirts...have gotten several since that. On the downside my closet is overflowing....on the plus side I rarely have to wash shirts! xD

I also collect concert memorabilia. I have every ticket I ever had on my wall with things like setlists, drumsticks and picks pinned on there too. Everything I managed to snatch (nothing bought). Everything autographed where I was able to get one. The ones I charish most are my two Mike Portnoy drumsticks (one with Adrenaline Mob one with Flying Colors), my Vinnie Paul stick (ex Pantera) and my Steve Vai setlist.

What other stuff do you have?

Sides a few autographs I got:
Heaven Shall Burn drumstick and pic, half a Machine Head drumstick, a battered and beaten Killswitch Engage setlist socked with the sweat of Adam D., Billy Sheehans Mr. Big setlist, Sepultura setlist and a pick from Adreas Kisser, Adrenaline Mob and Flying Colors setlist, a piece of Mike Portnoys stick from Transatlantic and a Wilco setlist.
Also pics from Therapy?, Black Label Society and Steven Wilson (one from Blackfield, one from the solo tour).
And a one of a kind drawing of a beardfish by Rob from Beardfish.

Another special one to me is the broken stick from Emil of the Broadway Killers (follow up band to the Pinboys) which I took home from the first gig I organised and mixed solo.

All aquired within 3 years.

It is not that much yet, but I am getting a lot better at getting stuff (or I just have a lucky streak).

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Sounds awesome!