Holy Grails! If you got 'em, let us see!!!

Kel Varnsen

mookeywrench wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

why are 98 posters so hard to find?

They weren't seen as collectibles. People hung them up on their walls with pin tacs or just folded them up...treated them like any other college-dorm room poster.

From what I remember and have read they were really cheap too. Like 10 bucks for a show poster. Framing was still pretty expensive back then (and the average age of fans was probably younger). I was 20 when I went to the Seattle 98 show so even if I did buy the poster, I was in university so it would have been hard to justify spending $100+ to frame a 10 dollar concert poster. I mean I remember one day I was in a music store and in their free poster bin I found the live on 2 legs promo poster (the one with the red concert photo on one side and all the ames tour posters on the other). Even though it looks awesome and I wish I had taken better care of it, it was a free poster so the edges are all dented and I am sure there is at least one pinhole in every corner.

Plus I am not sure about other shows on the tour, but the seattle show was out doors in a huge soccer stadium. I can see how a lot of posters probably didn't make it out of the stadium without getting beat up (since really who in those days would have thought to bring a poster tube to a show?). So the posters were really rare to begin with, and a lot probably haven't survived since then in good condition. At the same time they look awesome so demand is super high and the supply is jut not there to meet it.

AfghanTwilight

It's amazing to see the price difference from 1998 to 2000 in terms of posters. Sure, they made more 2000 prints, but the dropoff is huge (aside from Roskilde).

Even back then, it was nearly impossible to get a '98 you didn't obtain at a show yourself. There were some generous people on BRY back in the day, too.

Kel Varnsen

AfghanTwilight wrote:

It's amazing to see the price difference from 1998 to 2000 in terms of posters. Sure, they made more 2000 prints, but the dropoff is huge (aside from Roskilde).

Even back then, it was nearly impossible to get a '98 you didn't obtain at a show yourself. There were some generous people on BRY back in the day, too.

Not quite impossible. Ten Club sold the left over posters through the merch section of the newsletters. Check this out, you could buy 98 posters for $12

http://www.thecolorsblend.com/article_ten_club.php

AfghanTwilight

Correct. And I recall thinking I didn't need to spend money on posters to shows I didn't attend. I didn't even buy the Barrie poster at the show, and because of that - I didn't know the posters were silkscreened and something more than your standard type poster. I didn't want anything to do with holding onto an expensive (at the time) piece of paper in a mosh pit. It took me years to track one down in trade.

And per that link, I was at the Buffalo '96 show and they definitely sold the Randall's Island poster by Ward Sutton. Again, a print for a show I didn't attend - didn't feel the need. I think it was $8.

JMo

Kel Varnsen wrote:

AfghanTwilight wrote:

It's amazing to see the price difference from 1998 to 2000 in terms of posters. Sure, they made more 2000 prints, but the dropoff is huge (aside from Roskilde).

Even back then, it was nearly impossible to get a '98 you didn't obtain at a show yourself. There were some generous people on BRY back in the day, too.

Not quite impossible. Ten Club sold the left over posters through the merch section of the newsletters. Check this out, you could buy 98 posters for $12

http://www.thecolorsblend.com/article_ten_club.php

The best place to get the 98 tour posters was from Ames, back in the day. They were cheap, and they were mint. Some of there stock was signed and numbered, some was not.

I was lucky enough to tour the 'Ames house' and see the basement, with stacks of 98's. But even then, I was poor. But the coolest thing in the whole place was the No Code art hanging above the stairs. All those polaroids, pretty damn awesome!

Dirty Stuart

AfghanTwilight wrote:

Is that a real Reenk Roink?

Yup.