Two vinyl LP "completist" questions.

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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    edited December 2021
    1. One of every release and all variants.

    2. No one. Finding foreign copies and all variants is next to impossible.

    If it is just one of each release ... then my list would be long.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    At one point, I had all of the Bowie Rykodiscs. 

    Then, I sold each for probably a quarter a piece on eBay when I decided to get rid of my CDs. 

    Good times. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    mfc2006 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    mfc2006 said:
    1. One of each release
    2. My Morning Jacket, Elliott Smith, Ben Harper (all releases), Soundgarden, Spoon, Brandi Carlile, Radiohead

    I'd say PJ, but I don't own Benny or LD
    Benny is not essential to be complete.  That is like saying the Vaults are included and they are not.
    Ok..then I just need LD! 

    Last time I check the price of Lost Dogs vinyl it was the price of a down payment on a Jaguar.:grimacing:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,500
    mfc2006 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    mfc2006 said:
    1. One of each release
    2. My Morning Jacket, Elliott Smith, Ben Harper (all releases), Soundgarden, Spoon, Brandi Carlile, Radiohead

    I'd say PJ, but I don't own Benny or LD
    Benny is not essential to be complete.  That is like saying the Vaults are included and they are not.
    Ok..then I just need LD! 
    I would say no on that too.  
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    tempo_n_groove said:
    mfc2006 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    mfc2006 said:
    1. One of each release
    2. My Morning Jacket, Elliott Smith, Ben Harper (all releases), Soundgarden, Spoon, Brandi Carlile, Radiohead

    I'd say PJ, but I don't own Benny or LD
    Benny is not essential to be complete.  That is like saying the Vaults are included and they are not.
    Ok..then I just need LD! 
    I would say no on that too.  

    I kind of hate to admit this, but with all due respect to Pearl Jam, if I had a copy of Lost Dogs in vinyl I would sell it.  I have the CD and it is my least played PJ.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • pjpjpaul
    pjpjpaul Posts: 1,716
    I think complete would mean actually having everything but the way bands do a million varients to entice buyers these days really puts a dent in the wallet of true collectors and I guess it is what it is. With that in mind, maybe a different term is required for those of us who seek to own at least one copy of each release. Maybe something like "fan without unlimited fundsist who buys all the releases of a band or artist in one form or another and put a few bass players' kids through college along the way"...


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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited December 2021
    brianlux said:
    Also spelled "completest", here are two questions for you vinyl LP fanatics:
    1.  As a vinyl fan, how would you define "completest" (i.e. just one of each authoritative LPs, or all those plus all color variations, or every variation of every kind, etc.)?
    2.  According to your definition of "completist", for which musicians or bands would you say you have reached the stage of completist?
    1.  Every album and every color.  Not each pressing in general.  For a while we had every Billie Eilish release including the paint splatter Third Man (shoe print and all).  The new album had a lot of colors tho.  

    2.  Less for artists and more for albums themselves these days.  If I really love an album I’ll hunt down every color. 
    Tron Legacy Soundtrack by Daft Punk 

    For a while I had every release and every color from the Black Pumas and Chvrches, 
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    I’ve got everything ever released on vinyl by PJ including the vaults, PJ20, on and on. I also have all the OG studio albums. I do not consider myself a completist because I don’t care to own the clear No Code or blue Vs. from Venezuela or wherever it’s from. That stuff just doesn’t interest me. I had a GITD PJ20 and sold it because it sounded so awful. 

    I’ve got every Tragically Hip album and the studio album boxset. Also have the Road Apples boxset. I’m sure I don’t have everything though… No OGs from the early years therefore not a completist
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited December 2021
    Yeah PJ would be tough.  
    I’d have to get GITD PJ20, PJ20 color, Blue vs.   

    id be selling my older car basically.  I have most of the studio albums, all the vaults and other live albums, a Benny and a red/blue Orpheum so that’s a start :lol:
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    cp3iverson said:
    Yeah PJ would be tough.  
    I’d have to get GITD PJ20, PJ20 color, Blue vs.   

    id be selling my older car basically.  I have most of the studio albums, all the vaults and other live albums, a Benny and a red/blue Orpheum so that’s a start :lol:
    Haha. I hear ya. It gets a little asinine really. I sometimes shake my head that I have a mint No Code, Vs. and Vitalogy that are never played but have each of them VG+ as playable copies. Someday the mint ones will be sold 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Collecting all of Pearl Jam would be quite a feat!  Sounds like some of you are rather close.  Those sound like awesome collections!

    Oddly, being a big fan, I nearly forgot to mention Steve Wynn/ The Dream Syndicate.  I'm missing a few of his things from his several groups, but I'm not far from complete.  I lucked out on finding Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three's Northern Aggression on vinyl (which also includes the CD!) but keep searching for affordable copies of a few others I don't have.  Some of Wynn's records were never even pressed in the U.S. so I ended up getting his Decade boxed CD set that has most of those in it. 

    I
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,480
    edited December 2021
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 
    Post edited by Guy Dudebro on
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 

    That is completist to the extreme, Guy! 
    Or maybe lets take it a step further and imagine someone attempting this:  To have every vinyl pressing of every Beatles record from every country including test pressings, remasters, etc., AND the same for every CD, reel to reel tape, 8-track tape, DAT tape, cassette tape, FLAC file, every download card, AND every Beatles movie on every film format, AND every book and ebook ever written about the Beatles, AND every magazine and Beatles fanzine every publishes, AND.. I know, if I keep someone is going to shoot me!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,480
    brianlux said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 

    That is completist to the extreme, Guy! 
    Or maybe lets take it a step further and imagine someone attempting this:  To have every vinyl pressing of every Beatles record from every country including test pressings, remasters, etc., AND the same for every CD, reel to reel tape, 8-track tape, DAT tape, cassette tape, FLAC file, every download card, AND every Beatles movie on every film format, AND every book and ebook ever written about the Beatles, AND every magazine and Beatles fanzine every publishes, AND.. I know, if I keep someone is going to shoot me!

    Just for fun, bookmark Rockaway.com and check out the new arrivals and see  what comes through there every other week or so. If anybody ever  wanted to complete your list above that’s about the only place you need to go. The collectors you describe above do exist but it appears that many seem to be aging out. Hell, we’ll all be there some day!  Recordmecca is also an interesting browse for the high end collector. 
     But yeah, completist means completist to me. I love to collect the rare and obscure. In fact, it’s all I collect. Great thread. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Guy Dudebro said:
    brianlux said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 

    That is completist to the extreme, Guy! 
    Or maybe lets take it a step further and imagine someone attempting this:  To have every vinyl pressing of every Beatles record from every country including test pressings, remasters, etc., AND the same for every CD, reel to reel tape, 8-track tape, DAT tape, cassette tape, FLAC file, every download card, AND every Beatles movie on every film format, AND every book and ebook ever written about the Beatles, AND every magazine and Beatles fanzine every publishes, AND.. I know, if I keep someone is going to shoot me!

    Just for fun, bookmark Rockaway.com and check out the new arrivals and see  what comes through there every other week or so. If anybody ever  wanted to complete your list above that’s about the only place you need to go. The collectors you describe above do exist but it appears that many seem to be aging out. Hell, we’ll all be there some day!  Recordmecca is also an interesting browse for the high end collector. 
     But yeah, completist means completist to me. I love to collect the rare and obscure. In fact, it’s all I collect. Great thread. 

    Interesting site, thanks!  Not just records, but guitars, signed things, all kinds of stuff.  Out of my price range, but cool to look at!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,500
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 
    This is not completist, this is insanity.  Anything publicly released you could be a completist.

    I do have all 4 Fixer records and I still argue w Dlaowsky about there being a 5th.  I believe it to be the color wearing out or mixed to make it lighter.  He disagrees, lol.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 
    This is not completist, this is insanity.  Anything publicly released you could be a completist.

    I do have all 4 Fixer records and I still argue w Dlaowsky about there being a 5th.  I believe it to be the color wearing out or mixed to make it lighter.  He disagrees, lol.

    A bit off topic but I'll ask here because I forget where you had mentioned this, but somewhere you said something about a Dischord box set.  I'm curious as to what this has in it.  One of these days, I want to delve into their catalog a bit more.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,013
    Guy Dudebro said:
    brianlux said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 

    That is completist to the extreme, Guy! 
    Or maybe lets take it a step further and imagine someone attempting this:  To have every vinyl pressing of every Beatles record from every country including test pressings, remasters, etc., AND the same for every CD, reel to reel tape, 8-track tape, DAT tape, cassette tape, FLAC file, every download card, AND every Beatles movie on every film format, AND every book and ebook ever written about the Beatles, AND every magazine and Beatles fanzine every publishes, AND.. I know, if I keep someone is going to shoot me!

    Just for fun, bookmark Rockaway.com and check out the new arrivals and see  what comes through there every other week or so. If anybody ever  wanted to complete your list above that’s about the only place you need to go. The collectors you describe above do exist but it appears that many seem to be aging out. Hell, we’ll all be there some day!  Recordmecca is also an interesting browse for the high end collector. 
     But yeah, completist means completist to me. I love to collect the rare and obscure. In fact, it’s all I collect. Great thread. 
    Your posts in the Discogs random item thread have been impressive to say the least!
    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

    10-30-1991 Toronto, Toronto 1 & 2 2016, Toronto 2022
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    brianlux said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 

    That is completist to the extreme, Guy! 
    Or maybe lets take it a step further and imagine someone attempting this:  To have every vinyl pressing of every Beatles record from every country including test pressings, remasters, etc., AND the same for every CD, reel to reel tape, 8-track tape, DAT tape, cassette tape, FLAC file, every download card, AND every Beatles movie on every film format, AND every book and ebook ever written about the Beatles, AND every magazine and Beatles fanzine every publishes, AND.. I know, if I keep someone is going to shoot me!

    To me that is a completist. There are people that do that.
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Guy Dudebro said:
    1. Completist means exactly that. Every pressing from every country, every different promo, and every test pressing.

    2. None. Never tried. I collect by the motto that you can’t have everything. 

    Can you imagine being a true completist collector of The Beatles, Stones, or Led Zeppelin? 
    This is not completist, this is insanity.  Anything publicly released you could be a completist.

    I do have all 4 Fixer records and I still argue w Dlaowsky about there being a 5th.  I believe it to be the color wearing out or mixed to make it lighter.  He disagrees, lol.
    I agree with you, I believe the other blue is just a factory variant. Not a specially designed 5th version. The same can be said about the blue Vs, with black streaks in it.

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