Off-Topic Forum

Yeah, I knew that about Gross, and I avoid those stages of Gross. Plug Me Into Something is different than Sha Na Na and his Shannon era. It's hard hitting Southern Rock with a couple of softer tunes, but I love it. I wish I had a copy of it. Spotify has everything else of his.

Just cards now, but in the past I colelcted action figures/SLU and die-cast cars.

The Bottle Rockets are another band that is hard to find but worth it as alot of the members were in other band, Radar Gun is one to open up the car on a highway. Another band  The Rockets did OH Well is redone much harder than Fleetwood Mac

My musical tastes are about as varied as everyone's collections here on the site. Growing up (wait... still am..) in the '60's I eventually gravitated towards CCR (everything CCR) . then came along the Zeppelin... yeah. To many others to mention one by one. A good driving song would have to be Radar Love by Golden Earring (1973), IMO.

Very cool post. Not sure but I find a possibilty of Cards/Other collectible bardering. Why keep it buried in the attic, basement or garage, when there are collectors out there. WOW, 1960s Classics, I luved them, who knows where they ended up, probably with attic insulating co. that stole my cards, yearbooks and publications from my parent's house.

Funny, I recently traded an UD Hockey Lamp for cards, we were both thrilled with the trade.  Meanwhile, some collectibles I can easily part with are: I have so many CDS, Casettes and whatever vinyl I have can go...but no Beatles. Sports Illustrated with just about every star ever featured. I have duplicate Eagles Stuff. The last of my Star war figures, sold most. GPK I still collect but I have soooo many, VARS and all. And golf stuff, never golfed, but my wife picked up a couple of garage sale sets, definitely not modern clubs or bags. Glad to ship these too !

Right after high school around mid 90's I went crazy. I was collecting cards, comics, coins, Star Wars, G.I.Joe, Transformers. Of course, I was single and had my own trailer to store the stuff. Now, I have a wife and daughter that come first. That and the fact that I don't have the room or money for the inflated prices. I used to buy comics for 65-75 cents. Now they're over $4-5. I occasionally buy a TPB if it's cheap. I still have my vintage Star Wars and Gijoe, fixing to start selling them. Oh yeah. I have stamps and bottles too. I used to go down the road to a creek, found glass tonic bottles and old brown snuff bottles. But as of now it's primarily cards and blu rays of movies or shows. 

Interesting to read what everybody collects. I returned to card collecting last year after a 20-year hiatus. During that time I mostly collected NHRA diecast models and McFarlane NHL goalie figures.

My real passion is what could be considered a niche collection. Radio station KHJ was the big dog in Top 40 radio in Los Angeles from 1965-73. I set out to collect all of the promotional material I could find and amassed a decent amount. The items that most of the older folks might remember are the record surveys given out at the local record stores listing the "Boss 30" songs of the week. I was able to accumaulate all of them from that period. Since nobody ever got to see the material, I decided about ten years ago to place it online for everybody to enjoy.

Fun post. It’s good to know that I’m not the only hoarder junk fiend purveyor of fine collectables.

For me it’s (in no particular order)

• record albums (saved the ones I had growing up, add to it every so often)
• Boy Scout patches
• Coins, US and foreign
• Hess Trucks
• Sea glass (it gives me something to do at the beach. Don’t know what to do with all of it.)
• Antique medical books and equipment
• Olympic pins, ski pins, other cool hat pins

Metal, rock, punk, jazz, soul mostly with a smattering of others.

Nice. I recall that kind of stuff when I was in junior high from 1968-1970, same basic information. I recall listening to the radio at night while they played the Top 5 most requested that day and talking about it the next day while walking back with friends during off-season football.