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I just started collecting tubes. So far i have some kool NOS tubes from the states and europe.

Is storage an issue?

never. that's what i have the cages for

I used to collect hotwheels. I have a drawer full of unopened ones, but I'm guessing that at this point they're all still worth 99 cents. And I also collect Gambit comics, but there've been some new ones out that I'm slacking on. And I have around 30 decks of cards (poker, not pokemon), but not really collectable - I just really used to like playing cards. I stopped when the poker thing blew up and became some kind of sport - that is, everyone became better than me.

And I've been using invisible since I got here, you trendy bastards. Obviously that's why everyone's doing it.

i guess you could say i collect 80's casio synthesizers. because right now i have about 4 in my room (including an SK-5) but eventually they will opened and ripped apart and turned into trashy noise things.

yes, same with my women...

yopu lucky thing you (math)
i collect shitty cheapo keyboards from thrift stores and other keyed instruments. i need lots more.

and i also collect cameras of any sort.

and the obvious music collecting. i wish i had the money to extend my SY collection.

heh... nasty!

george lucas should be made to eat every single star wars toy as a punishment for his crimes.

SY stuff, horror movies, rock/music shirts, band/music DVD's, and Cal Ripken Jr. cards. I used to collect a ton of baseball and basketball cards, but quit collecting hardcore when I was 16 or so. I still love going to card shows every once in awhile and mainly just buy Cal cards/old Oriole player cards.

When I started reading the thread I thought I was a collector, but now I can't think of a thing I collect. Records count, I guess. It would seem as though we all do that though.

OH. QSL Verification cards from Shortwave stations spanning the globe. One of these days I'll post scans of them, as some of them are quite strange. I've been shooting for one from North Korea but it is seemingly impossible.

Records definitely count. When I think how many people out there don't collect records or CDs, it's kind of incredible. So many people I know just download or don't even bother with that.

Whats worse are the people who don't even listen to music. Yes, I know a few.

Limited Edition Xiu Xiu Records
Computers
Instruments

well you know me grandpa...

On the other extreme you have people like me who "collect" (meaning, buy) the same piece of music over and over. As in 5 copies of VU & Nico, 3 copies of the white album, ad nauseum.

That is in fact part of what makes you more "collectorish." You need all the permutations, to the point where it may or may not even be about the music anymore. Sometimes it is (mono vs stereo, different mixes, better sound on one pressing vs another, etc), but sometimes it is about cover art, label, or in extreme cases, the freaking matrix numbers.

yeh to me it was getting the point where if i liked a movie id buy it
and i would look at my collection an realize that hey i havent watched this again and ive owned it for 2 years
so i sold most of my dvds and now i really only buy cds

i bought 2001: a space odyssey just because i had seen it antd thought it was awesome. it probably wouldn't be out of its packaging if my friend didn't borrow it.

I could see getting to this point, but this can cost you a fortune!!

That is why you didn't claim it, and I did. Your opinion is that it's not what my opinion says it is. So it's not an assumption nor is it lame. It's an opinion whether you agree or disagree with it.

records, guitars of all sorts, old toys, art. nothing interesting.

i don't really collect anything, i buy stuff and consume etc, but i don't have that slightly autistic collector mindset.
i'm just not a commited or dedicated person, i'm lazy & flakey.

Books. The only things of mine I really care for and have a lot of.

do those state quarters count? i have most of the ones that have come out so far (maine and alabama are notable exceptions, and i can't find those anywhere for some reason . . . argh.) i also have some pretty weird coins, including multiple susan b. anthony dollars, multiple kennedy half-dollars, multiple wheat pennies, some of those 1943 pennies that weren't made of copper, various silver dollars dating as far back as the late 19th century, a couple buffalo nickels (the old ones, not the ones that have just come out recently), a mercury dime or two, and coins from canada, great britain (even halfpennies -- i understand they've been discontinued), greece, germany, france, spain, mexico, etc. (all prior to the era of the euro). i also have a box containing $25,000 in shredded currency.

and of course there's the obvious -- books, CDs, etc. i keep all my textbooks instead of selling them so i will have built up a sort of pseudo-academic "library" when i get older.

i think that's about it.

Books. And Evergreen Reviews. I was going to try to collect Ginsberg's books, but I said "fuck that" and bought his big red book of all his poems and called it a night. I'm one of those beatnik-wannabes who buy all of the books. And I'm high. Did anyone else know that the strand had a wesbsite?

snoopy...a shitload. i'm a fan of peanuts in general, but snoopy is the
character with the coolest collectibles.

ooh. i have all the Calvin & Hobbes books.

i forgot some, i also collect edward gorey books, but i only have about half of them so far (there are over 100, i had better get moving), as well as lawn gnomes.

sy stuff, en stuff, nick cave stuff, beat authors, books, post punk vinyl from australia

you mean like this?
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There was a guy I saw on tv recently that had collected 1000 copies of MJ's Thriller. He found them all on flea markets and it took him 2 years to get enough of them to make an artpiece. It cost him about 2000 euro's.

Man, you nailed it. It really does become less about the music at times. For example, I own a regular black White Light/White Heat and a white vinyl. I bought the black vinyl second, just to own a "normal" black vinyl copy, but I've never played it.

And I'm going after different matrix numbers currently on my Sticky Fingers and Exile LPs. There's the 39100 series and the 59100s. Means something about when they were pressed, and I am totally into it.