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Somewhere I have a big old booklet from an Ozzy tour I didn't see (never saw one of them). it has a hot vampire demon chick on the front cover and Ozzy as a big bloated sweaty dragon on the back. Besides albums, too much of which is glam stuff, I don't have much of a collection.

I think this is the point in my life when I have bought the least amount of music since I started collecting years ago. Babies and houses have a way of eating up all of your time and funds.
BAN, I have the impression that your music library ought to be registered as a national treasure.
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Somewhere I have a big old booklet from an Ozzy tour I didn't see (never saw one of them). it has a hot vampire demon chick on the front cover and Ozzy as a big bloated sweaty dragon on the back. Besides albums, too much of which is glam stuff, I don't have much of a collection. BAN, I have the impression that your music library ought to be registered as a national treasure.
Lol, I wouldn't go that far. I have a larger collection than anyone that I regularly hang out with, but have come across more than a few that absolutely dwarf my own. I have around 2,000 albums, but my former boss at the metal store I worked at years ago is around 5,000, and there were a couple of twins that I traded with once that were right around the 10,000 mark, most of which were original pressings. Then there are the guys from my other forum, where I am one of the least knowledgeable and experienced members. Many were buying metal albums before I was born, and I would guess that at least 2 of the members there are well over 10,000.
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If I seriously like an album, I try to get it on vinyl, and try to get an original pressing if possible. At that, my most prized albums: Slayer - Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits, both original pressings, and they didn't cost me more than £20 together! Still great quality sound, really warm (analogue > digital, always). Just need a new needle...

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If I seriously like an album' date=' I try to get it on vinyl, and try to get an original pressing if possible. At that, my most prized albums: Slayer - Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits, both original pressings, and they didn't cost me more than £20 together! Still great quality sound, really warm (analogue > digital, always). Just need a new needle...[/quote'] I dig vinyl, but I do most of my listening at work and while driving, so collecting vinyl is impractical for me. Those are Slayer's two best albums though, so if that were to change, I would like to have them in that medium as well.
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To me' date=' this would be a memorabilia and merch section more than a recordings you own section, unless the recordings are bootlegged or such. Do you have anything like that?[/quote'] That's what I assumed as well, which is why I didn't post my album collection here. I don't have a ton to add to my original post though, most of the cool stuff that I've received since has been in the form of experience, meeting people and seeing bands that I enjoy, a few photos here and there, that sort of thing. I wish I would have had a copy of my album to have Aaron Stainthorpe sign when I met him at MDF, that would have been a truly one of a kind item.
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I got an original copy (i.e. one of the 1000 copies in a plain white sleeve with the band's signatures and no track listing) of Diamond Head's white album/ lightning to the nations. My latest addition is a signed copy of Dee Snider's autobiography. My Dad has a signed drum skin from Nigel Glockner hung on his bedroom wall at my grandmother's house. As for the non-metal stuff, I have a signed original copy of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "up your alley" album and the Dollyrot's complete discography (all signed).

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I got an original copy (i.e. one of the 1000 copies in a plain white sleeve with the band's signatures and no track listing) of Diamond Head's white album/ lightning to the nations. My latest addition is a signed copy of Dee Snider's autobiography. My Dad has a signed drum skin from Nigel Glockner hung on his bedroom wall at my grandmother's house. As for the non-metal stuff, I have a signed original copy of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "up your alley" album and the Dollyrot's complete discography (all signed).
I love that Diamond Head album, that's quite the item you've got there.
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