Collectables, Limited Edition, Rare and Vintage, what do you hoard?

Spent many an hour in both of those record shops, I think I have the universe flyer as well.

Always good to see a That Petrol Emotion stub. Not so much a dedicated collection but a pile of stubs I’ve kept

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Heh I was at the Pere Ubu T&CC & at the Sonic Youth / Mudhoney Kilburn. Happy days!

Confession time, I think I only went to the Pere Ubu gig as the Mekons were the support band - was a big Mekons fan!

More posters to the collection, and this piece arrived yesterday.
Will probably be framed and hung, rather than consigned to the storage folder.

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• Poster collection Nov21.pdf

I had completely forgotten until going into my parent's loft a few week's ago that as a kid I used to collect cigarette packets (it seemed quite normal at the time!). I have probably over 100 of them from all around the world!

No Lucky Strikes?

Probably some somewhere, there are several boxes full.

Ooooh I'd LOVE to see a pack of Silk Cut No3, or blue, or red. And find smokeable ciggies in them too!

Wow. Yeah I used to keep packets as a teenager. Some memories there! Red Band! They were rough as anything!

JPS Black & Gold livery - possibly the most '70s thing there is.

When I first started chuffing fags aged about 12 (very part-time at that stage I hasten to add) JPS were 49p for 10, Embassy No. 1 were 50p.

It was very much worth stumping up for the extra penny

Always the best racing car

James Hunt wasn't it?

if jps is 70's silk cut were 80's, the ad camaigns with little if any brand name just that distinctive purple colour ( until cadburys dairy milk took it on ) and some subtle clues / rips / cuts, the jaguar le mans cars

ubiquitous

I have hoarding tendencies from my mum, she's a post war child, so everything is to be held onto, just in case. So used to keep hold of old magazines (Vibe 93-97), old books etc. Have downsized/given to charity/ chucked most of those.

But the only thing I've collected actively are comics, have over 5k maybe close to 6k, mostly Marvel super hero stuff, the majority from the late 80s - 90s, when most of my money went on weekly buying. Got out of the bulk buying titles, after I stopped buying the X-Men and associated titles (have every issue of the X- Men from 150-300) and when the comics industry got in annual crossover events, and multiple covers by different artists for the same comic issue.
Once I stepped away from that, I started to be a bit more specific and intentional, in terms of buying comics about characters I liked from artists and writers I liked so mike mignola, kurt busiek, chris bacalo, Mark millar, etc,
I was and still am very art led, if I like the artists style that helps overcome the majority of my misgivings about the writing, but this has also led me to collect a load of good looking, but badly written (usually by the artist themselves) creator owned comics that emerged out of the Image publishing revolution.
Still collecting, not sure I'll ever stop to be honest.
My one regret is not buying more original artwork, when comic showcase used to be on charing cross road, it was expensive back in the day, but relatively peanuts to what you'd have to pay for the same work now. Could have had original art from akira, frank miller's batman, x-men, that sort of thing for under £200, which as a student in the mid 90s I'd never have been able to afford, whilst also buying comics. But if i'd brought then, I'd have more to show/display to show the years of collecting, rather than rows of brown boxes on top of ikea shelving units.

My one regret is not buying more

... is the vibe in this thread

My one regret is not buying more

... is the vibe in this thread

Not necessarily applicable to my cigarette packet collection!

that should actually say "my one regret is not buying ANY"
I don't have any original artwork! Should have brought them when I saw them.

Managed to fill in the gaps so now have a full set of Norwich City home shirts from 1989/90 up to and including this season (twenty four in total) and hoping to eventually pick up the six before that to complete all the standard versions that were released with sponsors.

I'm convinced the currently ludicrous price of retro football shirts is purely down to those that were teenagers in the 90s are now sat in jobs that give them a decent chunk of disposable income. There's surely no way they'll hold the prices in future.

Tempted to start to prune/tidy up some of my Nintendo stuff now, but again there's another market that's incredibly expensive for what it actually is!

I do have a soft spot for the one merch strip I had aged about 10, Liverpool away yellow with red pinstripes.

I never had a perm though. I gather they're back with London schoolboys.

Wow, £250 just for the shirt.

https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/1981-84-liverpool-away-shirt-very-good-s-2.html?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKCAiA78aNBhAlEiwA7B76py8D_VrZX68ucmIkJ--KWLhbGaP3sf4d8_0RLZvFaq-BIrtByFEElxoCw-gQAvD_BwE

I had a fantastic Chris waddle type perm back in the late 80s

• just at the back mind you
  

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just at the back mind you

Correctly done

Ah just seen this! Nice to know Soul Survival isn't a figment of my imagination as no one else seems to remember it. Amusing to think that the owner (Rob?) used to tolerate me clawing through records i couldn't afford on my way home from school.

Spotted Replay Rob (Bobafatt) some time back working in Rough Trade.