Does it Sadden you slightly when you "complete" part of your collection?
 

Yesterday I found the very last Unwound recording I do not own on vinyl, a single for MK Ultra.

I now have no more Unwound releases to find.




Recently I have reached this level with Unsane, Dinosaur Jr, and Polvo. There are quite a few others in my collection that I have already "finished" while it makes me happy to find these things and to listen to them it also saddens me because that is yet another band whose name I have to cross out of my mental "to get" list.

Do any of you ever feel that way?

I've only ever had one complete collection, and I doubt I'll ever have another one. Unless the band only happens to do a handful of releases, y'know. I can't currently think of a single band that I could be bothered to have a complete collection of.

I too have only had one complete collection. Then I realised I had so many track duplications and quite a bit of shit as well.

Apart from that...what Glice said.

I have quite a few that I would love to complete. If it is one of my favorite bands I liek to get all theri singles and albums on vinyl.

I am not too big on the millions of compilations and shit like that though.

I am close to finishing complete collections of

PJ Harvey
Sonic Youth
The Smiths

no, i don't collect anything, i'm a very poor accumulator. i'm more of a buffet eater-- a bit of this and a bit of that to feed my aesthetic and spiritual needs, and i very rarely fetishize-- in other words, objects don't interest me in and of themselves, and when i've tried to fake it (by imitating others), i've observed i end up with mere clutter. in other words, i lack the collector instinct.

some classify it as a "sickness!"

i am yet to complete a full collection of releases from one artist as there are so many that i like alot and i try to get a bit of everything but even my favs like sonic youth i am still missing a few things, i do have almost every Huggy Bear vinyl release so i might complete that soon, i can imagine though if i did complete my SY collection i would be pretty satisfied for a bit but then not know what to do as i am constantly on the look out for things i don't have :D

unsane are still putting out records though, and then there's cutthoats9 chris spencer's other band who are maybe a little better than unsane.

nah, withouth collectors we wouldn't have libraries and museums, which are some of the best things in life.

i personally love collections, i just lack the instinctual drive to put one togther.

if it's a sickness, think about it as a sickness that produces something good-- sort of like the way that bacteria in our guts produce vitamin K, ha ha.

anyway on a related note i still got your keychain ready to go, i just haven't had a chance to send it, these 2 weeks have been crazy.

bands who i'm inteding to have complete collections of one day:

harry pussy
the dead c
the shadow ring
the jesus lizard
bardo pond
windy & carl

I'm not a completist in any way.
I have too many more important things to worry about than finding a certain 7" by a certain band.

It does in a way and it seems strange that it should but its somehow like there is nothing new to discover. Its ok because you can always get everything else that comes out but its kind of an anti climax.

Yr right king Luis

anticlimax is a good word for it!

and as concerns bands that are still putting out records, those are easy to get as they come along. finding a clean copy of SY's walls have ears or kill yr idols however....

cuttthrioats9 are good too, but I have a special place in my heart for the first 5 years of UNSANE nothing compares, and nothing will ever compare.

i get that feeling when i finish a great book though

you want to get to the end but you don't want the experience to end.

eventually, time wins.

When I completed my collection of enough dead babies for insulation i was kinda sad.

How'd you deal with the smell?

and just to clarify a bit, I am not talking about an obsession with getting everything a band puts out. I am talkig about, in your casual month to month record buying, getting lucky and finding that one LP/single that completes yr collection.

I do not consider myself obsessive. I have passed up countless chances to get certain SY items or certain butthole surfers ites because of price or just because I had it already on CD and wanted to get something else.

I Love Records!

Its still good to know you have an entire collection of someones work, that in itself can be a mountain to climb and when you find those rare, out of print things in some crappy 2nd hand place its good but when its all over its like knowing you will never have that again somehow.

It's going to take me many years to complete any of my collections because I get distracted and start going for a different band.

yeah same here.

i think bikini kill is the only band that i have everything on vinyl.

I wish I collected... things.

crypto, you collect experiences!

A complete collection? Is that possible? There are so many variations of releases, re-issues, etc. This is the point at which you could get really obsessive, as in collecting vinyl with different matrix numbers in the runoff portion and crap like that.

Sadly, I don't know the sadness you speak of nor do I think I ever will.

I have ocd so I have to have everything... usually.

yeah, but yr a sick puppy gmku!

It is nice to have specialty releases and such, but I am talking about justhaving the MUSIC, once you have all the officially released music.

I am not too into getting every possible issue of the white album or stuff like that, but I like to have colored vinyl.

with bands that ahve broken up, like polvo, or unwound, there is only so much stuff out there that they put out and it is fairly easy to get to the point where there is nothing else for you to get, no music of their sthat is "new" to yr ears, you know?

Oh, well, in that case, I would say I have close to a complete set of the Stones. Trouble is, there's some sweet bootlegs out there of late 60s, early 70s shows that I know I will never own in the original vinyl release format. I do have a few of those, and they're some of the better ones--but truly, even though I have every official Stones album, including several in various LP releases, knowing there are all those boots out there, I could never think of it as really complete.

I seriously still think it's nearly impossible to own a complete collection. Even if you just stick to the official releases, you're still talking about an awful lot of merchandise, in a lot of cases.

I gots it!

hence the sadness/joy!

At the same time, it keeps it interesting. I'm always thinking some day I'll walk into the store and see Welcome to New York (from the 72 stones tour) on the original bootleg wax and the storeowner has ignorantly priced it at 6 bucks or something. A man can dream.

My friend found this John lennon bootleg, rare indeed, at a store where the owner had it marked for $15 ha ha ha ha!

Seriously?! What period Lennon is that? Is it live stuff or studio outtakes?

good luck with those.

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i really can't collect everything from bands i like because they are too many, some are worth the try and some aren't though; i don't obsesses though.

that vinyl of winston O Boogie was re-released as a Two CD thing a few years ago. I have NO idea where it originally came from!

Mkultra is a great track, you bought yourself a right treat there, I have it on a singles and rarities compilation, but does that count as 'having it'?

I rarely have enough money to spend on collecting records.

I'd only really make the effort to complete my collections of the following bands:

The Cramps
Pussy Galore
The Ramones

The same for me, Rob.
But most of the time, I get into a new band just before finishing a collection. And most of the time, I can't finish a collection, 'cause it's difficult to find good albums here, except if I order it on the net (what I don't like to do).

Lack of money/job to complete any of my collections. However, there are a lot of things (not music-related) that I would put on my "Things I Have A Lot Of" list. That sentence was awesome.

I had a shedload of Ramones records before I realised that most of them were appalling.

Rob, can you post pics of the Dinosaur jr. collection?