I started collecting “Garbage” in 2007. But I bought my first single “Stupid Girl” in 2006. That makes Driving Lesson my first b-side! My main collection consist of singles but its growing to vinyl and memorabilia. (more…)

I would say that all Garbage album eras had great packaging, but some of the memorabilia items in the Beautiful Garbage era are just stunning. I think the combination of the font used and the single names meant that there was alot of room for funky ideas of packaging of memorabilia and promo items. I think also the seemingly more limited/hard to find nature of some of the items (compared to the V2.0 era) makes them that much more appealing, but at the same time that much more expensive….
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Part 2 of my Top 10 collectables from Japan continues with what I consider some of the coolest items ever to come from the Land of the Rising Sun.
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One of the nicest things about collecting records related to any band or artist is that there are always different pressings issued in different countries. For the majority of countries the designs never change that is apart from countries in the Far East, mainly due to the different alphabet that is used as a result the packaging will often get a complete overhaul making it look so much different to the same release issued in the USA or South Africa for example. Items from the Taiwan, Chinese and Japanese markets are typical of this and as a result there are some amazing items that have surfaced over the years from Japan in particular. In fact there are so many that this article was going to be the “Top 5 collectables from Japan” but I’ve changed it as I wanted to include a couple more.
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