Is there a band where you own every scrap of everything they've ever done?

Iron Maiden. Black Sabbath, Opeth, Katatonia, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple.

There were way more before we sold most of it to try to keep the house back in 08/09

This only applies to vinyl. We don’t collect CDs except as something to listen to in the car.

@Seek What about Tool and Porcupine Tree?

No.

Much of Mark Knopfler and s lot of The Boss but not every scrap.

@Seek No, I meant do you listen to them? They’re prog metal-like.

Oh. Yeah, Porcupine Tree is great. I never really got into Tool, but what I’ve heard I like. They’re just not on the “we have the misprint of the German import of the live album recorded in Japan with the original bass player” list.

@Seek

“Iron Maiden. Black Sabbath, Opeth, Katatonia, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple.”

Do you have Valleys of Neptune?

Actually, no. Hendrix is a special case. Hubby will not buy anything released by the Hendrix estate firsthand. He’ll only get those second hand, and we haven’t come across that one yet.

He won’t allow any money to go directly to his “sister”. The bitch.

I have everything produced by Q Lazarus, not that it’s much, but it is significant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTs_TZFjbJ8

^ Remember:

“Don’t swing when the balls are high and inside.”

I was like that with Prince through the 90s. I found a copy of the Black Album when it was just a myth. Lots of great record stores in the Boston area had European prints, bootlegs, oddball promotional singles… I scooped it all up.

I only managed to seem him once, but it was in a small venue. It was amazing!

insomnium, guided by voices

“Own” has become a relative term. But, yes, my two bands in that regard are Neurosis and Coil (well, I suppose I don’t have every single little scrap they’ve done, which in Coil’s case seems neigh impossible).

“Own” has become a relative term.

Or an alien term. The 20-somethings I know think buying music is weird when you can watch it on Youtube.

They LOVE concerts, though. I am very happy to see the artists can make money from live shows instead.

@Darth_Algar True. In Caravan’s case I own physical CDs of everything they have ever done, as well as a few bootlegged concerts (which are very hard to find with Caravan).

If I was older then I would certainly be like this with Twenty Øne Piløts. My parents wouldn’t want me to use my own money to buy all their merchandise and stuff, and they wouldn’t want to buy it all either. I hope in the future I will be able to go to lots of their concerts and they may even begin to recognise me. I just really want to be their friends. I’m obsessed, okay?

@Call_Me_Jay

Well I’m pretty far removed from 20 at this point, and I don’t use YouTube for my music listening, but I’ve torrented quite a lot of stuff. I might own copies of all the main albums, but I’m not shelling out the rent money to buy every little 12” single or special limited to 500 copies, etc these bands put out (and now only obtainable at extortionate prices from eBay profiteers).

I have everything Syd Barrett ever recorded. You can actually hear him starting to deteriorate. It seems like he never really wanted to be a rock star, or at least he didn’t want to be after he achieved success. A lot of what happened to him was poor mental health, but also a lack of interest and desire.