Post YOUR Collection Thread

[the raytownian]

Here's my small CD (+ 1 Cass & VHS) collection:

I will post my 7" and 12" collection when I am feeling less lazy (I don't have a ton of Smiths vinyl either, but it's a bit of a task to set all that shit up for a photograph regardless), along with new arrivals I'm still waiting to receive.

PS: Sorry the picture's kind of crummy... My room is too dark and my hands are too shaky to get away with not using the flash.

Also, I have them in chronological pressing order, not by original release date.

That said, I am going by what Discogs is telling me, and my Peel Sessions CD is from '94, regardless of what Discogs says... so I guess it should technically be in between This Charming Man and Ask...

 

[the raytownian]

D'oh! I only just now saw that I apparently took a photo of (most of) my collection and had it in PhotoBucket already, though there have been some additions since + some I already had which are missing in these photos:

Yes, I know the Sandie Shaw single isn't "technically" a Smiths record, but I figure, since they were all involved in some way, it should be grouped in with my other Smiths stuff.
Same goes for the [rather disappointing] NME Readers' Poll Winners '84 7", which I am including because it has a Smiths cut.

Hopefully, once all the latest acquisitions arrive, I can get it all together in one big photo and masturbate over it.

And the beat-up MIM longbox on my wall (no, I didn't put a tack through it!):

I don't currently own enough Morrissey to make it worth the trouble of shooting and sharing, if only because collecting Smiths stuff is a higher priority for me.

PS: The majority of the pins sitting in that CD-r spindle cap feature The Smiths and Morrissey.

 

[Raphael Lambach]

Tonite I'm gonna post a shot of my little collection.

 

[Raphael Lambach]

As I promissed: my wee collection.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/img0571qx.jpg/
Left to right:
- CD The Smiths - debut album (Brazil)
- CD Hatful of hollow (Brazil, signed by Andy Rourke)
- CD Meat is murder (France - first edition)
- CD The Queen is dead ( Brazil)
- CD Louder than bombs (Brazil, also signed by Andy)
- CD Strangeways, here we come (Brazil)
- LP Strangeways, here we come (Brazil)
- CD The Sound of The Smiths (Brazil - double)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/img0572v.jpg/
Left to right:
- LP Viva Hate (Brazil)
- CD Tomorrow (US)
- CD Vauxhall & I (Brazil)
- CD World of Morrissey (Brazil)
- CD Viva Hate (100 edition, Brazil)
- CD You are the quarry (Brazil)
- CD You are the quarra (Brazil special edition)
- CD Redondo Beach (Canada)
- CD You have killed me (US)
- CD Ringleader of the tormentors (Brazil)
- CD The Youngest was the most loved (US)
- CD Greatest hits (Brazil)
- CD Southpaw grammar (remaster, Argentina)
- CD Years of refusal (Brazil)
- CD The HMV/Parlophone singles '88 - ' 95
- CD Everyday is like sunday (remaster, UK)
- CD Bona drag (remaster, UK)
- CD Glamorous glue (UK)
- LP Glamorous glu (pic disc, UK)
- CD Very best of (CD/DVD, UK)

 

[Irregular Regular]

Viva Hate

 

[DPM]

I wonder how many Smiths / Morrissey rarities this guy has???? Amazing stuff! - http://fueltank.tv/#1749187/The-Archive

 

[billybu69]

ooh disapointment i saw DPM had posted in your collection and was expecting a special photo or two.

 

[Dave2006]

I wonder how many Smiths / Morrissey rarities this guy has???? Amazing stuff! - http://fueltank.tv/#1749187/The-Archive

This bloke has been mentioned on here before - hasn't he been trying to sell his collection for years - but no one is willing to give him the $millions he has spent on them?

He valued it at $50million, but a $3million ebay bid proved to be a fraud http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/26/news

I often wonder what my daughter will do with my records in a few years time when I depart this mortal coil... does she realise its worth at least £58?

Dave

 

[everydayslikesunday]

Hi Dave,

At the moment my daughter would quite happily have a chew of my collection, although she will have to be quick, my wife will have it all on ebay whilst my body was still warm

 

[billybu69]

The problem has to be what you gonna do with it once you've bought it. If you had the money to buy it you'd need a spare wing at home to house it.

This bloke has been mentioned on here before - hasn't he been trying to sell his collection for years - but no one is willing to give him the $millions he has spent on them?

He valued it at $50million, but a $3million ebay bid proved to be a fraud http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/26/news

I often wonder what my daughter will do with my records in a few years time when I depart this mortal coil... does she realise its worth at least £58?

Dave

 

[DPM]

ooh disapointment i saw DPM had posted in your collection and was expecting a special photo or two.

Yeah I know.. I wish I had something to post here. It's been a while since a purchase - I missed out on the HIG promo poster recently - was going to do a big wall of HIG! I still haven't had the negatives framed yet. Can't make my mind up how to display them!

 

[the raytownian]

Finally got a family portrait of my complete Smiths collection so far:

May do a photo of my tiny Moz collection once I can afford the shit I put on hold at the record store...

The two darker copies of Panic are both clear blue red-label vinyl pressings. Hoping I can trade one for a blue label eventually.

The "Shoplifters..." 7" behind the clear blue German Line Recs copy is a UK pressing. The "Heaven Knows..." 7" and CD are UK pressings as well. The Headmaster Ritual 12" is a Netherlands pressing on Megadisc. I believe all the remaining 12" singles are orig. UK pressings, though I am not 100% certain about the WDDIM? 12" just yet.

Most of the CD's are early US/N. American pressings, save for a few UK singles + the German STAB "mini-CD" and, I think, the Peel Sessions CD.

The MIM longbox belongs with the CD pictured, which was apparently an '87 pressing.

The S/T cassette is an unlicensed copy. The MIM and Rank ones are US dubs.

 

[the raytownian]

At the moment my daughter would quite happily have a chew of my collection, although she will have to be quick, my wife will have it all on ebay whilst my body was still warm

I am a suicidal 20-something who lives with his mother (what a cliché!).

I've always figured my mom would never go into or clear out my bedroom until she eventually unloads all my possessions at good will 10 years after my death if I ever made the decision to off myself or just happen to die prematurely.

To prevent that happening with my music collection, I've decided to make it clear that I want my collection to be given to my close[est] friends. They live together and we like a lot of the same music, including The Smiths (one of them does, anyway).

I'd probably will them my music/recording gear as well since they are in bands together and do a lot of music stuff.

That's actually most of my bedroom once you take out the dirty laundry. :|

 

[Irregular Regular]

This is my collection of Smiths promo CDs in card or paper sleeve.
With the exception of the recent Complete 8 x CD-R, are there any others that I am missing?

 

[Flax]

Hey IR, there's this promo:

and these:

and

 

[Irregular Regular]

Hey IR, there's this promo:

and these:

and

Thanks Flax, I am aware of these 3.
I meant in card or paper sleeve though.
2 of these come in jewel cases and the packaging for the other one is almost like a book, right?

 

[Flax]

ohhh that's right. That's what you asked
Yeah, they're both jewel cases. The Sound of the Smiths 2xCD has no front cover. Only this red print in the back.
And the other one looks like a hardcover book.

 

[the raytownian]

This is my pitifully-small Moz CD collection:

-Maladjusted, US Mercurey Rec release
-WOM, US Sire/Reprise release
-Vauxhall And I, US Sire/Reprise release
-Kill Uncle, US Sire/Reprise release, CRC edition

The only other Morrissey I have is the Last Of The Famous International Playboys 12" [ http://www.discogs.com/Morrissey-The-Last-Of-The-Famous-International-Playboys/release/389766 ]... Hopefully, if my application to MCDONALD'S is accepted (no kidding, that's the only kind of place I can find employment ), I will have a little more $$$$ to spend on Mozzy-poop...

 

[motorways]

 

[motorways]