Nerdiest possession

I guess the remnants of my once complete Weird Al discography on tape might qualify as a bit nerdy, though I bought those tapes when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and I can't locate any of them today. I'm sure they're still hanging around my folks house though.

Besides that, I do have about 5 or 6 dozen D&D minis figurines, and I bought those in the last few years.

Oh, and my CD collection does testify to a certain obsession with a number of bands/composers, but I don't know if that really counts, seeing as I don't really have that many rare recordings that I had to shell out mega bucks for. The closest I have to that would be my Grateful Dead CD collection, which has just about every studio album they made and that I ordered through a local record store. Now, this may not seem like much, but they are all the pre re-issue editions, since I got into them about three or four years before that happened (and as a consequence had to pay a lot more money for those discs than I would today).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Tapes? Please.

I own the first four Weird Al Yankovic albums on vinyl. Each one is autographed by Al. One album (In 3-D) is signed by each member of Al's band. I had to attend four different shows over a course of six or seven years and wait in line to get each one Hancocked.

I don't have them framed or anything (yet) but they're tucked safely away. It's my hope that I can get the first album signed by Dr. Demento as well someday.

I quite honestly envy you for that. I haven't even had a chance to see him perform live, as northern New Brunswick has pretty much squat in terms of concert tour dates. Now that I'm in Montreal I'll surely get a chance to go do that though.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

I have the entire Dick's Picks series. (For those not pathetically obsessed with rock n' roll bands, that's a series of 36 multiple-disc Grateful Dead "official concert bootleg" type releases.)

Also, the reissues sound way better than the earlier CD editions. You should really buy them again.

[/rock n' roll nerd one-up]

I have to specify the fact that I collected the albums over the course of many months, constantly going back to one of the two record stores in my home town to pick up discs and order some more. I had pretty much squat for cash back then (hmmm... as I do now incidentally) and so to be spending a good chunk of my meager salary on a bunch of discs seems a bit nerdy. Once the re-issues came out, they were more readily available to me, first because they were actually carried by most record stores, and second because I had moved to a bigger city. It was all useless to me however, since I already had most of the albums.

As for that whole Dick's Picks thing though, all I can say is wow. I only wish I could say I've went to that extent of rock'n'roll nerdiness. Props.

There's nowhere I can't reach.