First time buying a poster and of course I fuck it up..

The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
edited August 2008 in The Porch
How do you poster junkies do it, aside from tubes?? I mean, it started off great. I was at the counter fumbling with the fucking thing as some nice dude on line handed me two rubber bands to make life easier. Throughout the night my wife and I took turns holding the annoying thing but at some point it ended up on the ground sooked with beer (probably my beer)..To add insult to injury, after we ate at a local diner it started raining on our ten minute walk home..I wrapped the shit up, but nevertheless it's pretty fucked..Too much of a fucking hassle for me, but I give you guys credit..
'I want to hurry home to you
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightening
and I'll overdo it'
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  • I don't see why this would be banned from being brought into the venue so...


    Why not take a clear plastic umbrella bag in with you? it'll save the poster from getting wet.
  • Cree NationsCree Nations Posts: 2,247
    I fucked up the first one too...well the first one I actually got at or during a show.
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  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
    you learn over time, I just started bringing tubes with some extra paper in them after the scuff and folds kept fucking my posters up. If it is raining that whole fucking tube goes in my shirt and down my pants. I look like Frankestein walking around with a stiff leg but my poster is safe! I hold that bastard the whole show in my hands or in between my legs, I have strong thighs :-)
    You feel like a nerd walking around with a tube all day, but my Lolla green monster poster got through the whole hot ass day intact.

    try again you'll do better
  • EBowieEBowie Posts: 532
    Yeah...I tend to agree w/the thread starter. The Boston, EV shows were the first time I've bought a poster---way too much time spent on "babysitting" the damn thing. The posters look great and I don't regret buying 'em, I guess I was just too much of a poster noobie.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    I don't see why this would be banned from being brought into the venue so...


    Why not take a clear plastic umbrella bag in with you? it'll save the poster from getting wet.

    Hey, that's an easy solution to keeping it dry..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Lone WolfLone Wolf Posts: 1,023
    If it is raining that whole fucking tube goes in my shirt and down my pants. I look like Frankestein walking around with a stiff leg but my poster is safe! I hold that bastard the whole show in my hands or in between my legs, I have strong thighs :-)



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  • The Champ wrote:
    Hey, that's an easy solution to keeping it dry..


    Plus, if you got a tube it'll stop the tube from getting wet. So you got a tube to keep it from bumps and a baggie to keep it from getting soaked. I think you should give it another shot.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    hrd2imgn wrote:
    you learn over time, I just started bringing tubes with some extra paper in them after the scuff and folds kept fucking my posters up. If it is raining that whole fucking tube goes in my shirt and down my pants. I look like Frankestein walking around with a stiff leg but my poster is safe! I hold that bastard the whole show in my hands or in between my legs, I have strong thighs :-)
    You feel like a nerd walking around with a tube all day, but my Lolla green monster poster got through the whole hot ass day intact.

    try again you'll do better

    The sticking it down your leg part is funny..but seriously, that's just way too much work..lol...doesn't it interfere with your drinking/fun etc.?
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • smile05smile05 Posts: 600
    The Champ wrote:
    How do you poster junkies do it, aside from tubes?? I mean, it started off great. I was at the counter fumbling with the fucking thing as some nice dude on line handed me two rubber bands to make life easier. Throughout the night my wife and I took turns holding the annoying thing but at some point it ended up on the ground sooked with beer (probably my beer)..To add insult to injury, after we ate at a local diner it started raining on our ten minute walk home..I wrapped the shit up, but nevertheless it's pretty fucked..Too much of a fucking hassle for me, but I give you guys credit..


    Sorry dude, this made me laugh so much, you are now in a special club: no posters or useless posters

    Did you get it framed?????
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  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    The Champ wrote:
    doesn't it interfere with your drinking/fun etc.?
    it does. stupid posters cause me more anxiety...
    my recommendation to everyone is to stay away from posters because once you start, you're hooked! (although you seem to be proving me wrong there. :D ) but yeah, it's an awful addiction.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Plus, if you got a tube it'll stop the tube from getting wet. So you got a tube to keep it from bumps and a baggie to keep it from getting soaked. I think you should give it another shot.

    Well, I mean the only way I'd ever consider buying another is if the posters are easily accessible like they were for the solo shows..I'd never wait hours before hand in some crazy line only to see some bastard purchase them all before I get to the counter..thanks for the suggestions though..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • The Champ wrote:
    Well, I mean the only way I'd ever consider buying another is if the posters are easily accessible like they were for the solo shows..I'd never wait hours before hand in some crazy line only to see some bastard purchase them all before I get to the counter..thanks for the suggestions though..


    Yea, no shit. You could just forget the tube and start taking a umbrella bag with you to the shows since it can be folded and doesn't take up a lot of room. That way if you get lucky, you got protection. And if you don't, well, save it for another day.


    Hang on, are we still talking about posters?
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    smile05 wrote:
    Sorry dude, this made me laugh so much, you are now in a special club: no posters or useless posters

    Did you get it framed?????

    Fuck, now it needs to be framed too? ;)..yeah, after all the fucking trouble it caused us, I definitely will attempt to save the fucker to some reasonable extent..either way, the son of a bitch is going to get hung somewhere ;)..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Yea, no shit. You could just forget the tube and start taking a umbrella bag with you to the shows since it can be folded and doesn't take up a lot of room. That way if you get lucky, you got protection. And if you don't, well, save it for another day.


    Hang on, are we still talking about posters?

    lol....and good point..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Roll it and tie it with toilet paper- on the top and on the bottom.

    Works like a charm!

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  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    nfanel wrote:
    it does. stupid posters cause me more anxiety...
    my recommendation to everyone is to stay away from posters because once you start, you're hooked! (although you seem to be proving me wrong there. :D ) but yeah, it's an awful addiction.

    If anything, this experience has only turned me off further ;)..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • I always bring a garbage bag with me.. wrap it up in there
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  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Roll it and tie it with toilet paper- on the top and on the bottom.

    Works like a charm!

    VIRGIN!

    Watch your fucking tone missy ;)..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Champ bought a poster!!! you've become one of them...


    we lost a good man today

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1FvlPakkU&feature=related
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    dunkman wrote:
    Champ bought a poster!!! you've become one of them...


    we lost a good man today

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1FvlPakkU&feature=related

    Oh man, I know it's not a valid excuse but the fucking thing was just sitting there at 8:30..no lines or anything..plus the wife loves Batman ;)..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Are poster tubes allowed into the venue. I have a few small cardboard poster tubes that would be perfect, but I am not sure if they are allowed into the venues. This tour was nice because of the wrist band, but I guess the Solo shows aren't doing that?
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  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    The Champ wrote:
    How do you poster junkies do it, aside from tubes?? I mean, it started off great. I was at the counter fumbling with the fucking thing as some nice dude on line handed me two rubber bands to make life easier. Throughout the night my wife and I took turns holding the annoying thing but at some point it ended up on the ground sooked with beer (probably my beer)..To add insult to injury, after we ate at a local diner it started raining on our ten minute walk home..I wrapped the shit up, but nevertheless it's pretty fucked..Too much of a fucking hassle for me, but I give you guys credit..


    posters= hassle

    waiting for them,,holding them...everything about them is a hassle
  • Dylan StoneDylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    Get a "poster collector" friend to hold yours with theirs.

    Works like a charm. ;)
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    The Champ wrote:
    How do you poster junkies do it, aside from tubes?? I mean, it started off great. I was at the counter fumbling with the fucking thing as some nice dude on line handed me two rubber bands to make life easier. Throughout the night my wife and I took turns holding the annoying thing but at some point it ended up on the ground sooked with beer (probably my beer)..To add insult to injury, after we ate at a local diner it started raining on our ten minute walk home..I wrapped the shit up, but nevertheless it's pretty fucked..Too much of a fucking hassle for me, but I give you guys credit..


    wait for the 10c sale like the rest of us smart ones ;)
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    dude, i hear ya. i was fumbling pretty bad with mine too. it's such a hassel. i looked like the biggest asshole trying to buy beer and then trying to take a piss. of course about an hour after i bought it, i realized i was wearing two rubber bands around my wrist. man, never knew a rubber band could make me so happy.
  • sky08sky08 Posts: 43
    After trial and error, here's my system. Bring two or three regular kitchen-sized trash bags (... looking under sink for correct size info -- 13 gallon), they are perfect, not too big, not too small. And a handful of rubber bands. If you layer a few bags over the rolled up poster it will be padded enough to be pretty protected, and if anything -- beer, whatever -- gets on it, you can just peel off one layer when you're leaving.

    The first time I bought a poster (and yeah, it's too much hassle to go thru for every show) I, like you, trashed it (... didn't have a tube, bag, rubber band, anything, so it was on the floor with the beer). Also, though I have yet to frame it I, like you, am determined to hang it somewhere eventually since I was baby-sitting the damn thing for half the night before I decided to forget it until after the show (which was closing night in Seattle, once upon a time.) The second time (after the first poster got trashed) I brought a poster tube, but it was annoying to hold for the hours leading up to the show, especially since the posters had sold out and I didn't get one. So the bag thing works, and if you don't get a poster there's usually another fan who can use your extra bag.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Update..Threw the fucker in a frame last night and it looks pretty good. The front didn't get damaged at all, only the edges are fucked..The frame covers up most of it and it's barely noticable....so it's all good and thanks for the suggestions..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,087
    you wanna try getting one at a euro show with general admission.
  • DesignVHLDesignVHL Posts: 297
    I have not bought a pj poster in a long ass time. are the posters all the same for the whole tour, or are they specific to the city/venue? Are these screenprinted and numbered? I'm def bringing a poster tube! All the shows i'm going to are seats...so it'll be easier to manage the posters...lol one of the reasons i rarely buy posters is because they ARE a pain in ass to manage! But I do have quite a few nice ones, and would like a couple more for the living room (which my mom thinks is tacky, lol but too bad - they look good in a frame and my fiance' likes the idea too.)
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    anybody else having a problem getting logged out when refreshing the specials page?
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