Poster Addicts Unite!!!!

pjtradeking wrote:

Good to know I have friends who will catch me......Although with this group, I am pretty sure once I start to fall, everyone will scatter and I will hit the groud with a big THUD!!

decides2dream wrote:

no addict here. as with most things, i simply need parameters. i never got posters when i first started going to liv shows, mostly b/c i had no idea they existed. then, i did see a few at some shows, but honestly not too impressed. also, knowing my personality i didn't want to embark on something i knew i would need to 'complete' and keep up, etc. my first poster purchases were for friends. many of em. i bought every poster from my 2005 tour: the gorge, vancouver, calgary and edmonton, all for friends. the gorge 2005 was the first poster i REALLY considered keeping for myself b/c i really, really liked it. but i promised to buy it for a friend, and i did. never thought about it much after that really.

my 'poster downfall' came in 2006 and the italian tour. a friend from here - damn you bathy ...asked if i would pick up a poster for him. i said IF i could in verona - the only non-GA show - i would, and i would do my best to take care of it, etc, but he had to take it no matter what. he agreed. in werona it was soooo EASY to get a poster. i saw it, and it was for ALL 5 shows, such a simple image, yet sooo beautiful to me. i bought 2. i figured the italian tour was 'special'......just have ONE poster, especially since when would i ever return to europe for shows. haha. that was it. i brought my poster home, immeidately had it frmed, and have loved it since.

if NOT for the euro 2007 tour, i might've been able to stop myself with that one poster. the 'joke' was on me, pj decided to return to europe the very next year, i could swing the trip, and off i went again...for 3 shows. posters are sooo EASY to get in europe, especially with 10c tix early entry. i easily got london and dusseldorf at the shows. the only poster i missed was the nijmegen b/c my friend thought it too fugly to purchase, and i was unwilling at that point to possibly relinquish my spot on the rail. so....required an aftermarket purchase. once i bought that london poster, i KNEW at that point, that's IT....i AM colllecting all the posters from shows i've attended. that was the defining moment. i don't *love* every poster i own, but i love most....and i love every show/memory. there are a few that i think are truly beautiful that i don't own, but i KNOW it would be 'too much' for me to start buying posters on aesthetics alone, i NEED those parameters.


i have plenty of my OWN artwork in my own home....and i love art in general, so yea...had no 'need' to get all caught up in this, haha. however, i really do enjoy all my posters, they are all on display. i will NOT buy another poster until i see another pearl jam show, and it works for me.