Poster Addicts Unite!!!!

pjtradeking · August 2008

LukinFan wrote:

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

I can see your trackmarks from here....;)

Smarter_Than_U · August 2008

My name is SmarterThanU and I am an addict. I liken my addiction to an alcoholic housewife in the suburbs that drinks way too much good wine every night. While she doesn't drink or smoke every chemical that comes her way like a bum in the street does, the end result is the same.

I think about posters all the time. I dream about cobbling enough money together to buy a 98 Maui (and damn-it, someday I will). I have traded five posters to get the one I want (ex: Pink Borgata--ever realize how much that sounds like pink "vagina"? Mmmmm). I have sold 14 different pieces of memorabilia just so I can have a 96 Ireland--what a pain in the ass that was, but so worth it.

I daydream about what my man cave will look like when my carefully curated poster museum is complete. I think about the framed poster thread and how I can make my post stand out. "Should I make a video once my dream comes to fruition?" Maybe with Olympic music in the background? Or maybe I could use that scene in Christmas Vacation with Clark and his Christmas lights and the drum roll and cut to my cream of the crop Klausen wall just as Clark sticks the plugs together?

People will say "can I please hang out with you at your house just so I can be in this awesome space? Pretty please??" And I will say No since I am afraid they just want to steal from me.

Down the road, my children will experience a suffering tenfold of what I have gone through as a poster addict. They will assume the responsibility of a collection that could only be rivaled by the Rockefeller family. They will be tortured at night with the fear that people only want to be friends with them because of the posters they've inherited. And if they do sell them all and make millions from the Sotheby's-run auction, then they will never find true love because of their vast riches.

But that won't be my problem anymore. Because the only thing that can free a poster addict from his/her fate is death. And when Gabriel's Trumpets finally blow-- then and only then will I know how it feels to be free.

my2hands · August 2008

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!!!

thats classic!

norm · August 2008

i'm not addicted to posters

remember the first step

We admitted we were powerless over posters—that our lives had become unmanageable.

but i'm not like that....i can quit at any....ohh look at the ev batman poster....gotta get me one of those

wait wait i'm not addicted....after this one, i'm done

did you see the latest mccarthy?

yea that looks cool i might...

no no must resist....i'm not an addict!!

YOU GUYS ARE THE ADDICTS NOT ME....I'M OUTTA HERE! BUNCHA POSTER LOSERS!

Niko80 · August 2008

I got into posters about a year ago. Now, I have about 90 prints in my collection.... This means:

I have bought one poster every 4th day!!!!

It went from not caring at all.... to this!! Kinda creepy to think about and I am not seing myself slowing down anytime soon..

pjtradeking · August 2008

Smarter_Than_U wrote:

My name is SmarterThanU and I am an addict. I liken my addiction to an alcoholic housewife in the suburbs that drinks way too much good wine every night. While she doesn't drink or smoke every chemical that comes her way like a bum in the street does, the end result is the same.

I think about posters all the time. I dream about cobbling enough money together to buy a 98 Maui (and damn-it, someday I will). I have traded five posters to get the one I want (ex: Pink Borgata--ever realize how much that sounds like pink "vagina"? Mmmmm). I have sold 14 different pieces of memorabilia just so I can have a 96 Ireland--what a pain in the ass that was, but so worth it.

I daydream about what my man cave will look like when my carefully curated poster museum is complete. I think about the framed poster thread and how I can make my post stand out. "Should I make a video once my dream comes to fruition?" Maybe with Olympic music in the background? Or maybe I could use that scene in Christmas Vacation with Clark and his Christmas lights and the drum roll and cut to my cream of the crop Klausen wall just as Clark sticks the plugs together?

People will say "can I please hang out with you at your house just so I can be in this awesome space? Pretty please??" And I will say No since I am afraid they just want to steal from me.

Down the road, my children will experience a suffering tenfold of what I have gone through as a poster addict. They will assume the responsibility of a collection that could only be rivaled by the Rockefeller family. They will be tortured at night with the fear that people only want to be friends with them because of the posters they've inherited. And if they do sell them all and make millions from the Sotheby's-run auction, then they will never find true love because of their vast riches.

But that won't be my problem anymore. Because the only thing that can free a poster addict from his/her fate is death. And when Gabriel's Trumpets finally blow-- then and only then will I know how it feels to be free.

HI Smarter_Than_U!!.....Welcome to the club, please pull up a chair...Someone please pass him the tissue so he can dry his eyes...I know that was tough, but it will be ok! Admitting it is the first step in recovery!

Smarter_Than_U · August 2008

pjtradeking wrote:

HI Smarter_Than_U!!.....Welcome to the club, please pull up a chair...Someone please pass him the tissue so he can dry his eyes...I know that was tough, but it will be ok! Admitting it is the first step in recovery!

Hold me

pjtradeking · August 2008

Smarter_Than_U wrote:

Hold me

LMFAO!!!!

pjtradeking · August 2008

With the recent artillery sale coming to end, I figured we might have a few new members joining any minute!

InMyTree4 · August 2008

yeah im new to the poster addiction the first few shows i went to i was way to excited to think about anything else other thatn the actual show. im still wicked excited but now i go for the poster first!

strummers · August 2008

I fed the beast tonight, 5 more to my name.

P.S. If anyone wants to pick me up any Ed posters or the new Zippo......pm me

!

pjtradeking · August 2008

strummers wrote:

I fed the beast tonight, 5 more to my name.

P.S. If anyone wants to pick me up any Ed posters or the new Zippo......pm me !

This is not the place to seek your fix my friend, this is a place for help. Put the credit card down and slowly back away...come on....you can do it....:D

pdalowsky · August 2008

I think I'm now past help

Irish Al · August 2008

I just shelled out $500 on easy st....just couldn't resist....my pregnant wife was a bit shocked :eek:

I have a very bad addiction

But absolutely over the moon that I got an easy st...thanks BK

pdalowsky · August 2008

Irish Al, theres been a mix up at Klausen HQ, he's justb emailed me to tell me that the one you got was secured in error and hes actually already reserved it for me!!

My Pregnant wife had a job on consoling me missing out....she does think I'm off my box though

erm, if by some miracle you hate it, I'll take it off your hands

I'D RATHER BE · August 2008

AWESOME THREAD!

I too have a problem collecting posters and can't stop. I can't remember my first one, but it started with:

Minneapolis 98
Oakland 97 S/N
Live on two legs Kozik 98 S/N

all of which I obtained for the lowest price after their original price. I am very proud of that.

Then, on to:

All the 03 posters of the shows I attended
All the VFC posters (including the war bird) -3 from the NEOCON series (I don't even know what 3 I am missing. Their all over the f ing place)
All the 06 shows I attended

And the ones I didn't:

DC
Dusseldorf
And many more

All the Eddie solo posters

Too many to list. Get the picture. It's a problem and that's just Pearl Jam. I collect other bands too, but not extensively.

I can't stop. Next is the Eddie East coast tour.

My girlfriend says I have a house under my bed (meaning if I sold them I could probably buy a nice place).

It's out of hand to the point that I realize I have a problem and want to minimize the whole collecting thing all together. The real issue is that I am somewhere missing something from within and filling the void with this collecting obsession.

pdalowsky · August 2008

this is very nicely put!!

I'D RATHER BE · August 2008

Thanks.

florence151 · August 2008

We only buy posters of shows we have attended. We can even buy only the first show's poster if the second is just a different color; like Seattle 2002. Even with this restraint we have a bunch that are not even on the walls.

fanch75 · August 2008

Just. Say. No.

Jamily Posters are stupid. Ed and his entourage are drinking Grey Goose & laughing all the way to the bank.

Poster Addicts Unite!!!!

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