Poster Addicts Unite!!!!
pjtradeking
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So I had posted in another thread about being retired from posters, and was called on the carpet so to speak by a fellow posterer...;)....
release30 gave me an idea.....If you are hooked on posters, lets hear your story...are you still an addict....can you stop on your own, or do you need help like I would think SOME of us do....anyhow...here is my story...;)
I imagine that it would go something like this.....
This story is not for the weak at heart, this gets kind of graphic...small children should probably leave the room.......:)
....it is just paper, I guess. It all started back in 2000 with a sticky note. I liked the way it stuck to things all by itself....then I discover photographs and found that if you put them in a frame, you could HANG them on a wall...BRILLIANT I THOUGHT!! Then came lithographs, but they didnt stick, didnt have a taste for them...
.... But one day, I was at a friends house, and he took me to his basement, said he wanted to SHOW me something..I figured it was a new radio or record player we were going to check out BUT THEN...He pulled out what he called and "archival box"...Didnt think much of it until he took the lid off. One smell of the silk screening ink was ALL IT TOOK for me....Before I knew it, I had MY OWN archival box, and my OWN acid free foam board, nails, a hammer, paper towels and GLASS CLEANER!! I started dealing on line then. But by this time, I was a mess..I had emails coming in at all hours of the night..."hey man, wanna trade for this" "hey dude, I'll sell you this one at cost! " It spiraled out of control and before long, I didnt recognize myself.. I started speaking in tounges that no one had ever heard of. Gibberish mostly. I would just walk around talking to myself saying things like AMES and KLAUSEN and HESS and KOZIK...People were looking at me as though I were an alien...
...Then one day, I took what started out as 20 posters to the framers...then it was 35...then 50 and then I just said FUCK IT MAN DO THEM ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA I was GONE man,there was no saving me til I decided enough was enough...I had to get some help....
....so I am here...Hi everybody....My name is pjtradeking, and I AM a poster addict!!!
release30 gave me an idea.....If you are hooked on posters, lets hear your story...are you still an addict....can you stop on your own, or do you need help like I would think SOME of us do....anyhow...here is my story...;)
I imagine that it would go something like this.....
This story is not for the weak at heart, this gets kind of graphic...small children should probably leave the room.......:)
....it is just paper, I guess. It all started back in 2000 with a sticky note. I liked the way it stuck to things all by itself....then I discover photographs and found that if you put them in a frame, you could HANG them on a wall...BRILLIANT I THOUGHT!! Then came lithographs, but they didnt stick, didnt have a taste for them...
.... But one day, I was at a friends house, and he took me to his basement, said he wanted to SHOW me something..I figured it was a new radio or record player we were going to check out BUT THEN...He pulled out what he called and "archival box"...Didnt think much of it until he took the lid off. One smell of the silk screening ink was ALL IT TOOK for me....Before I knew it, I had MY OWN archival box, and my OWN acid free foam board, nails, a hammer, paper towels and GLASS CLEANER!! I started dealing on line then. But by this time, I was a mess..I had emails coming in at all hours of the night..."hey man, wanna trade for this" "hey dude, I'll sell you this one at cost! " It spiraled out of control and before long, I didnt recognize myself.. I started speaking in tounges that no one had ever heard of. Gibberish mostly. I would just walk around talking to myself saying things like AMES and KLAUSEN and HESS and KOZIK...People were looking at me as though I were an alien...
...Then one day, I took what started out as 20 posters to the framers...then it was 35...then 50 and then I just said FUCK IT MAN DO THEM ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA I was GONE man,there was no saving me til I decided enough was enough...I had to get some help....
....so I am here...Hi everybody....My name is pjtradeking, and I AM a poster addict!!!
Never, ever, flipping forget
"Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY
My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
"Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY
My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-12
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You can cure yourself by giving me a few of your most valuable ones. It will be tough, but it's for your own good.Free the West Memphis Three
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That would be me too. Relatively new to this. Started with the Dusseldorf last year. Wanted that to frame it up with my setlist from the gig.
My other half bought it for me for Christmas, ah the memories
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Then the yearning set in.....the smell, the feel, uncurling them from the tube for that first sweet glimpse....
I'm hooked, probably got around another 50ish posters since then. Really really want the Missoula '98, the new Ed one is sweet and hoping to add more from the '08 tour when the 10c lets some go.
Whenever I see a thread on here 'posters for sale' I get that rush, then the depression sets in when I realise I'm in a totally diferent time zone to those selling and more often than not they're gone by the time I take all of 2 seconds to convinve myself I need them.
I TOO AM A POSTER ADDICT! http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
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I have a life-sized poster of myself hanging on the wall. That is all need...well, that and I like clowns and ponies, too. Does anyone here eat ice cream? That's real good stuff. Hey, you know what? Rubber bands are amazing, but if you ever have to put rubber bands in a cave, don't forget about the ceramic dolphin nuggets.Osaka, Japan (2/21/95), San Diego (7/10/98), Las Vegas (10/22/00), San Diego (10/25/00), Las Vegas (6/6/03), Las Vegas (7/6/06), Los Angeles (7/9/06), VH1 Rock Honors (7/12/08), Ed Solo (7/8/11), Ed Solo (11/1/12), Los Angeles (11/23/13)0
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pjtradeking wrote:So I had posted in another thread about being retired from posters, and was called on the carpet so to speak by a fellow posterer...;)....
release30 gave me an idea.....If you are hooked on posters, lets hear your story...are you still an addict....can you stop on your own, or do you need help like I would think SOME of us do....anyhow...here is my story...;)
I imagine that it would go something like this.....
This story is not for the weak at heart, this gets kind of graphic...small children should probably leave the room.......:)
....it is just paper, I guess. It all started back in 2000 with a sticky note. I liked the way it stuck to things all by itself....then I discover photographs and found that if you put them in a frame, you could HANG them on a wall...BRILLIANT I THOUGHT!! Then came lithographs, but they didnt stick, didnt have a taste for them...
.... But one day, I was at a friends house, and he took me to his basement, said he wanted to SHOW me something..I figured it was a new radio or record player we were going to check out BUT THEN...He pulled out what he called and "archival box"...Didnt think much of it until he took the lid off. One smell of the silk screening ink was ALL IT TOOK for me....Before I knew it, I had MY OWN archival box, and my OWN acid free foam board, nails, a hammer, paper towels and GLASS CLEANER!! I started dealing on line then. But by this time, I was a mess..I had emails coming in at all hours of the night..."hey man, wanna trade for this" "hey dude, I'll sell you this one at cost! " It spiraled out of control and before long, I didnt recognize myself.. I started speaking in tounges that no one had ever heard of. Gibberish mostly. I would just walk around talking to myself saying things like AMES and KLAUSEN and HESS and KOZIK...People were looking at me as though I were an alien...
...Then one day, I took what started out as 20 posters to the framers...then it was 35...then 50 and then I just said FUCK IT MAN DO THEM ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA I was GONE man,there was no saving me til I decided enough was enough...I had to get some help....
....so I am here...Hi everybody....My name is pjtradeking, and I AM a poster addict!!!
GREAT POST!!!!
Hi, I am release30 I am addicted to posters...I don't care if they are framed although I would like them to be but, I feel the money I spend on framing is another badass poster I can buy...Do I need help...Yes...Do I care...No...Will I still buy posters??...I am unable to stop!!!..:)Conversations getting dull
There's a constant ringing in my ears
Sense of humor's void and numb
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always collected Jackson Pollock posters (I think over 50 now), and got hooked on PJ posters after I bought the Dusseldorf. Once I saw how sweet they are in real life I just got hooked. Yeah I saw them in dim halls at the shows and just thought yeah like that is going to stay clean and not creased through 4 hours of rock and roll.
thanks BK
Thanks Ames (most of them)
thanks EMEK
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hrd2imgn wrote:always collected Jackson Pollock posters (I think over 50 now), and got hooked on PJ posters after I bought the Dusseldorf. Once I saw how sweet they are in real life I just got hooked. Yeah I saw them in dim halls at the shows and just thought yeah like that is going to stay clean and not creased through 4 hours of rock and roll.
thanks BK
Thanks Ames (most of them)
thanks EMEK
thanks all the others too
So how many have you bought since the dorf???Never, ever, flipping forget
"Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY
My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-120 -
i got addicted in 1995 at summerfest. Ive been buying them ever since. luckily, back in the roaring 90's you can buy as many as you wanted and they were 8 to 12 dollars. there is no end in sight. you can say your gonna stop, but your not. obey the poster"you can say that we're, nocturnal, posssomists"
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possomists wrote:i got addicted in 1995 at summerfest. Ive been buying them ever since. luckily, back in the roaring 90's you can buy as many as you wanted and they were 8 to 12 dollars. there is no end in sight. you can say your gonna stop, but your not. obey the poster
If we only knew then what we know now, huh?Never, ever, flipping forget
"Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY
My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-120 -
...so I am among friends?
My camera battery just went dead while I was taking a pic of each of my posters to put on picturebucket.
I am relatively new too, but getting too deep way too fast! Only 7 pages at ebeans but thats just since 2006."...would you like some forks?" EV 12-02-060 -
So, my story is that we’ve been collecting posters since the 60’s. Just love the art. But, being a PJ fan I realized we were only missing a few from concerts we’ve been to so set out to complete the set. Haha. Then I found EB and it was a whole new world. It is an addiction for sure, but one that I love! "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."0
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pjtradeking wrote:So I had posted in another thread about being retired from posters, and was called on the carpet so to speak by a fellow posterer...;)....
release30 gave me an idea.....If you are hooked on posters, lets hear your story...are you still an addict....can you stop on your own, or do you need help like I would think SOME of us do....anyhow...here is my story...;)
I imagine that it would go something like this.....
This story is not for the weak at heart, this gets kind of graphic...small children should probably leave the room.......:)
....it is just paper, I guess. It all started back in 2000 with a sticky note. I liked the way it stuck to things all by itself....then I discover photographs and found that if you put them in a frame, you could HANG them on a wall...BRILLIANT I THOUGHT!! Then came lithographs, but they didnt stick, didnt have a taste for them...
.... But one day, I was at a friends house, and he took me to his basement, said he wanted to SHOW me something..I figured it was a new radio or record player we were going to check out BUT THEN...He pulled out what he called and "archival box"...Didnt think much of it until he took the lid off. One smell of the silk screening ink was ALL IT TOOK for me....Before I knew it, I had MY OWN archival box, and my OWN acid free foam board, nails, a hammer, paper towels and GLASS CLEANER!! I started dealing on line then. But by this time, I was a mess..I had emails coming in at all hours of the night..."hey man, wanna trade for this" "hey dude, I'll sell you this one at cost! " It spiraled out of control and before long, I didnt recognize myself.. I started speaking in tounges that no one had ever heard of. Gibberish mostly. I would just walk around talking to myself saying things like AMES and KLAUSEN and HESS and KOZIK...People were looking at me as though I were an alien...
...Then one day, I took what started out as 20 posters to the framers...then it was 35...then 50 and then I just said FUCK IT MAN DO THEM ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA I was GONE man,there was no saving me til I decided enough was enough...I had to get some help....
....so I am here...Hi everybody....My name is pjtradeking, and I AM a poster addict!!!
My mother warned me about people like you. I will not succumb to your peer pressure !
Honestly, I will not get involved with the posters because of my addictive personality. Plus, I hoard.
But hey, you only live once, so enjoy yourself "Tweet"
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I've never gotten into posters, but at Boston night I the poster looked amazing and I had to get it. I then remembered reading a thread that that is how the addiction starts, and I told myself I would not get a night II poster. Arriving at the venue and seeing it though, I had to tell myself I could not get it, no matter how much I wanted to. I knew if I didn't say no then, I never would have been able to again. Happiness is only real when shared0
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i've been a poster collector since the early/mid 70's: any concert/showbill i would come across, Steppenwolf, Triumph, FM, KISS in the day...now have some 600 gig posters from photocopies to silk screened beauties. I have the flat filing cabinet, the works....it's in my veins.s
Montreal/98, Toronto/00'03'05'06x2, Brad Toronto/02, Buffalo/03, Kitchener/05, London/05, Hamilton/05, Late Show Taping/06, Cleveland/06, Pittsburgh/06, Bridge School Benefit Concert/06, Hartford/08, Mansfield 1/08, EV Montreal/08x2, EV Toronto/08x2...0 -
First PJ poster at my first PJ show back in 96 Roma beautiful Sutton poster, then for 10 long years nothing. I couldn't imagine then 10 years after because that poster I will become an addict with no point of return.
2006 was a year that I realize to have one more good reason to live.................................................................collect more posters CAN'T KEEP CRAZY MARY IN MY TREE NO WAY NOT FOR YOU. ALL THOSE YESTERDAY JEREMY is ALONE, SAD with RATS & BUGS it's HARD TO IMAGINE a JEREMY a BETTER MAN.
LIFE WASTED, BLOOD on the PORCH, LAST KISS is a WISHLIST DEEP DOWN NOTHING AS IT SEEMS WHY GO COME BACK ALIVE SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE and SMILE.0 -
wheres the coffee and cigarettes in this joint anyways?????
And yes Im an addict.....It all started with the getz 96 florida poster!!!!Springfield MA 94, Hartford CT 960 -
were you up all night doing acid?**CUBS GO ALL THE WAY IN......never **0
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I am not an addict. I can quit any time I want. I've done it a thousand times. I just don't wish to quit now.
BTW, wanna buy some?
http://www.expressobeans.com/members/trades.php?fx=pearl+jam+&fxfilter=&id=6920&_changed&_changed&_changed&_changed&_changed&_changedTRANSPLANTS SAVE LIVES
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KDH12 wrote:were you up all night doing acid?
HAHA...Those days were waaaaay before posters, and only ONCE!
Just having a bit of fun is all...:) Have a seat.... You are among friends....;)Never, ever, flipping forget
"Free Shipping" SPEEDY MCCREADY
My friend was going to see Eddie last night. Since he was in Vegas, I gave him 5 Grand to gamble with. I told him I wanted it all to go on Black. Bastard! PhillyCrownOfThorns-11-2-120 -
I've been hooked since buying my 96 Ft Lauderdale poster through the 10 Club soooo many years ago. I love the art and I think I'll always collect posters even if I didn't attend them www.RLMcDaniel.com
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis2016: Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Jacksonville, JazzFest
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
2024: Baltimore
2025: Hollywood II0
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